The air around the Port of Oakland may get a little cleaner thanks to a $5.2 million federal grant for electrical power upgrades, port officials announced.

The grant money may be used to build a fuel cell site, install solar panels, replace an electrical substation, and connect the substation to a biomass generator. Port officials envision eliminating emissions from port operations.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.