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Port Approves New Green Air Program for Planes, Creates 120 Jobs
The port commission approved a $40 million project (largely be paid for by federal grants and the airlines) that will allow flight crews to turn off auxiliary engines at the gate and “plug in” to the electrical grid. This will reduce C02 and other emissions by more than 69,000 metric tons per year which is roughly equivalent to removing over 13,000 cars from the road. The project will also create 120 new jobs.
Bill Bryant is president of the King Co./Seattle Port Commission. He is also founder and chairman of BCI, an investor in Deneki Outdoors, and lives in Seattle with his wife Barbara.