Vaporware: KCI 'Solar Array' Vanishes??!

Remember that both the city manager AND Mayor Q promised the nation's biggest "solar array" along side of the new airport. 

Our TKC side note . . . Actually, dedicated pedestrian walkways would have been nice. 

Also . . .  

Let's not forget that one of KC's most beloved reporters called out the city manager over comments about lying to the media not long ago.

Finally we need to define terms when it comes to tech promises: 

Vaporware: A product, typically computer hardware or software, that is announced to the general public but is late, never actually manufactured, or officially cancelled.

And now . . .

SOLAR POWER PROMISES FOR KCI SEEM TO HAVE GONE DARK!!!

Big picture . . . We're not certain if federal funding for this kind of tech will be a priority in the new MAGA administration. 

Here's the word . . .

Both sides are mum about what has hung up talks to erect 35 megawatts of solar generating panels on 136 acres in the project’s first phase. It could evolve into a huge 500-megawatt facility on 3,100 acres, according to the city’s vision of the project.

“It is a more complicated process than anyone would have thought,” said one City Hall source connected to the talks.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Mum's The Word on the Solar Farm at Kansas City Airport

Officials with energy utility, Evergy, and Kansas City, Missouri, have been silent on progress toward building a solar field near Kansas City's airport

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