Plateau Travel Plaza in Crossville

    below listed from the ETCFC.

Crossville TSE Project

• Project partners:  Plateau Travel Plaza
• Start date - End date:  August 20, 2009 - June 30, 2011
• Funder:  EPA, Region 4

This project to install 50 electrified and HVAC-supplied truck spaces at the Plateau Travel Plaza in Crossville garnered $581,849 in American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds. Another $239,890 is being cost shared to bring the project total to $821,739.

The Plaza owner and ETCFC are collaborating to bring multiple anti-idling technologies to one truck stop with an expected installation completion date of April 2010. Due to the duo's hard work on cost reductions, they were able to squeeze into the project funding to include solar power to further increase the emissions reductions that the project is achieving. While replacing an idling diesel engine with local grid electricity is a substantial improvement in energy efficiency and emissions reductions, moving all the way to onsite renewable solar energy tzakes it to zero emissions (for the truck spaces energy use that will solar generation will offset).

East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition  ~  865-974-3625  ~  jgoverly@utk.edu  ~  311 Conf. Center Bldg, Knoxville, TN 37996-4134

Come to the Mayor’s Crossville Sustainability Fair

Cumberland County Fair Grounds - 1-5pm Thursday, April 29 2010

I welcome you to the Second Annual Crossville Sustainability Fair. For Crossville to develop sustainably, we must meet the needs of those who live, work and shop in our community today without compromising the ability of future generations who will call Crossville and Cumberland County home home to do the same.
As you visit the demonstrations of our many Sustainability Fair Partners, I want you to think about how you can make some of what you learn today a part of your life and the life of our community.
Thank you for coming. Sincerely, Mayor J.H. Graham, III

2010 Crossville Sustainability Fair Program
Water Conservation
Water Efficiency by Crossville Public Works Water Efficiency Appliances by Crossville Housing Authority Rain Barrels by Obed Watershed Comm. Association
Habitat Protection
Leave No Trace by OWSR / National Park Service
Control Invasive Species by TN Dept. Environment & Conservation
Attracting Birds by Obed Watershed Comm. Association
Planting Acorns by Crossville Tree Board
Wildlife by Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency
Soil Properties by UT Agriculture Extension
Cumberland Trail by Cumberland Trail Association
Preventing Riparian Erosion by Cumberland Habitat Conservation, US Fish and Wildlife & Tennessee Division of Forestry
Wood Products by TN Division of Forestry
Reduce Waste
Recycling by Knoxville Recycling Coalition Recycling by Martin Elementary
Energy Efficiency
Weatherization & Retrofits by Tennessee Technology Center Energy Efficient Appliances by Middile TN Natural Gas LED Traffic Lights by Crossville Public Works Inductive & LED Lighting by G-Mag Energy Efficiency by Neighbors Together
Light Bulb v CFS by TRANE Weatherization by Cumberland County Home Builders Assn.
Sustainable Energy
Solar Photovoltaics by Lightwave Solutions Solar Energy by SimpleEnergy Works Wind Turbines by Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Bike Power by Roane State Community College
Sustainable Transportation
Electric Automobiles by Tennessee Technological University Biofuels & Their Sources by East TN Clean Fuels Coalition City Biodiesel by Biodiesel Logic E-85 by Municipal Technical Assistance Services Bicycles by Cookeville Bicycles
Local Economy
Business Incubator by Roane State Community Value of Shopping Locally by Downtown Crossville, Inc. Gardening by Cumberland County Schools Organic Agriculture by Tennessee Technological University
Community Wellness
Anti-Smoking by Cumb. County Health Dept. Paddling by Cumberland Rivers Paddling Group
Media Sponsors
Crossville Chronicle • VolFirst • WCTE-TV