The doors of opportunity are opening for private investors in the municipal water market in the United States. With the country facing a water infrastructure funding gap of $532 billion over the next 10 years, private-sector investments and public-private partnerships (P3s/PPPs) are expected to play a growing role in ownership, management and operation of municipal […]
A “surge of network upgrades” in capital expenditures for municipal water and wastewater utilities in the United States is being predicted for between 2016 and 2025, according to a newly issued forecast from Bluefield Research. The report predicts a 28 percent increase – or more than $532 billion – over capital expenditure spending during the […]
Americans have only to drive on the nation’s roads and highways or across its thousands of bridges to realize the immediacy of the need for transportation infrastructure upgrades. But, there is another segment of public infrastructure assets that is not quite so visible – the nation’s water infrastructure. Government administrators are facing water systems that […]
Americans are more likely to be open to innovative financing tools to pay for the nation’s crumbling infrastructure than many previously had thought. A recent national survey, Transportation Mobility 2016, conducted by HNTB Corp. and released today, shows that 65 percent of those surveyed would support user fees such as levies on vehicle miles traveled or mileage-based fees to address the country’s deteriorating transportation infrastructure.
The PennDOT Office of Public-Private Partnerships has announced that it will accept unsolicited proposals from the private sector through April 30 for transportation projects on PennDOT-owned projects and infrastructure throughout the state.
For decades, toll roads have generated revenue for critical transportation projects. Now, however, toll roads have become controversial with a segment of the population, and some elected officials are vowing to ensure that new toll roads are not created. That, of course, begs the question of where revenue can be found for critical projects. A […]
Creation of a 10-year, $5 billion state clean energy initiative is turning heads in New York. The new Clean Energy Fund, approved recently by the New York State Public Service Commission, is an “unparalleled” investment in the state’s renewable energy goals, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. This initiative will spur innovation, provide taxpayer relief […]