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The Energy Task Force: New York’s Electricity Roadmap

As recent brownouts and blackouts illustrate, bringing power to the five boroughs is a constant infrastructure challenge. Chairman of the Energy Task Force and Executive Vice President of the NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) Gil Quinones will be joined by Kate Ascher, Executive Vice President of the EDC and author of The Works: Anatomy of a City (Penguin, 2005), to discuss how New York City is addressing power distribtion, energy supply, energy consumption, and the "electricity roadmap" for the future.

As recent brownouts and blackouts illustrate, bringing power to the five boroughs is a constant infrastructure challenge. Chairman of the Energy Task Force and Executive Vice President of the NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) Gil Quinones will be joined by Kate Ascher, Executive Vice President of the EDC and author of The Works: Anatomy of a City (Penguin, 2005), to discuss how New York City is addressing power distribtion, energy supply, energy consumption, and the “electricity roadmap” for the future.

WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006, 6:30 p.m.

WHERE: Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St.

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Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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