Archive for December, 2006
$1 Million Available for NYC Buildings that Switch to CFLs
Public Energy Solutions has launched Operation Kill-A-Watt in New York after being contracted by Con Edison to manage its targeted load reduction program throughout the City. The companies are urging New Yorkers in selected zip ...
GE Selling Hydro Business to PGC
GE Energy plans to sell its hydro business to Pescarmona Group of Companies. The sale includes GE Energy’s worldwide hydro business, excluding GE’s hydro operations in Norway and Sweden, although an offer by PGC to ...
BHEL Wins Another Contract From Indian Oil for Co-Generation Plant
BHEL has bagged another major order from Indian Oil Corporation for setting up an energy efficient co-generation power plant at its Haldia Refinery Complex. The order, for a Frame-5 Gas Turbine-based Co-generation power plant, is worth ...
Mercedes-Benz Pays $1.2 Million for Clean Air Act Violation, Spends $59 Million on Recall
Mercedes-Benz will pay $1.2 million in civil penalties as part of a settlement because it failed to promptly notify EPA about air pollution control defects on numerous 1998 - 2006 model vehicles. Mercedes must also improve ...
Golf Course Upgrades Could Yield 30% Energy Savings
A three-year pilot project now underway in Southern California hopes to show that by upgrading irrigation systems, golf facility operators can reduce operating costs by using less energy and water. Southern California Edison is ...
New York State Evaluating PHEV Technology
The New York State Energy and Research Development Authority has awarded A123Systems, a developer of nanophosphate-based batteries, and Hymotion contracts to provide three converted plug-in hybrid electric passenger vehicles. NYSERDA wants to ...
Boston to Require LEED Standards
Boston plans to amend its building code to require that all new private construction of at least 50,000 square feet must meet the minimum criteria of the United States Green Building Council’s Leadership in ...
GHG Certification Standard Out for Stakeholder Comment
The new Green-e Greenhouse Gas Product Certification Standard is now out for stakeholder comment. The Center for Resource Solutions is developing the new standard with the Green-e GHG Advisory Group, composed of environmental ...
Constellation Energy Wins Wind Power Agreement With WSSC
Constellation Energy has inked a 10-year contract to provide wind power to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. The 10-year agreement will meet WSSC's goal of using wind power for approximately one-third of its ...
NRG Selected by NYPA to Build $1.5 Billion IGCC Plant
NRG Energy received a conditional contract from the New York Power Authority to build a 680 net megawatt Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle plant at its Huntley facility in Tonawanda, New York. The project, ...
Poultry Industry Evaluates Solar for Growout Houses
WorldWater & Power will build a $500,000 PV system to power Allen Family Foods' poultry growout house in Laurel, Delaware. Growout houses take day-old chicks and raise them to maturity. The poultry industry is looking ...
Constellation NewEnergy Sends RECs with Holiday Cards
Here's a marketing idea that's hard to beat. Constellation NewEnergy, which has helped many of its customers incorporate renewable energy solutions into their electricity needs, is making a green energy purchase for each of the Christmas ...
EU Rethinks Airline Emissions Trading, Throws U.S. a Bone
The European Commission is scaling back its aviation emissions plan and considering a two-year grace period, until 2013, for foreign airlines before they're required to participate in its carbon reduction scheme, EUobserver reports (via Business ...
Palo Alto Named Green Power Community
Palo Alto is the first city in California, and the fourth city in the country, to be certified as a Green Power Community by the EPA. Palo Alto qualified for this certification with a ...
News Roundup: Enel, Verdiem, Timberland, ConocoPhillips…
Enel Picks Fusina for Site of Hydrogen Power Plant Enel has chosen Fusino as the site for the world's first hydrogen Power Plant. Enel will invest 40 million euros in the project. The Veneto Region ...
300 Computer Products Meet EPEAT Standard
Nine manufacturers are participating in EPEAT, the EPA-funded green computer standard released in July. More than 300 computers are now registered. The manufacturers are (links lead to EPEAT profiles): Apple, CTL, Dell, ...
Mass. to Retrofit 8400 Diesel Buses by 2010
Massachusetts will spend (PDF) $22.5 million to retrofit 8400 public school and regional transit buses by 2010. The deal is designed to offset pollution from the Big Dig, The Boston Globe reports. Some 7,800 ...
UK’s Biggest Grocer to Run Biodiesel Fleet
Starting in January, Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket chain, will run 75 percent of its delivery fleet on biodiesel, BBC News reports. Tesco, which has a strong environmental record, said it will run its 2,000 ...
Corning Cuts Lighting Costs 40%
High-efficiency fluorescent lamps chosen by Corning Inc. for its Kennebunk, Maine factory combined with other improvements, have cut electricity use for lighting by roughly 40 percent, Maine Today reports. The Corning plant, which employees 300 ...
Solar Entech Readies Power Conditioning Software
Solar EnerTech says it is looking forward to the sales and marketing boost it will get from the one-year extension of the solar ITC in H.R. 6111. The act extends the 30 percent solar ...
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Tom Stacy on National Grid Again Rejects High Costs of Offshore Wind
"Each time government entices big money investment away from riskier, but clearly..."
miggs on European Paper Industry Cuts CO2 Emissions by 42% since 1990
"Yet another example of the potential of combined heat & power to transform..."
Stevenson on News Corp. Taps Hara for Energy Efficiency, Environmental Management
"All of us should think of ways to save energy now. It is not a myth,..."
Trade Association on Trade Group on EPA Chemical Regs: ‘If Everything is a Priority, Then Nothing is a Priority’
"Seriously… that..."
Gary Markowitz on Supermarkets Tackle Emissions Reductions, Fuel Efficiency
"Supermarkets waste over 10 percent of their energy through improper..."
peter in ireland on Ontario May Follow California’s Lead on TV Energy Efficiency
"Governor Schwarzenegger is shooting himself in the foot! 1...."
Environmental Leader on S. America Takes Most Urgent View of Copenhagen Talks
"The survey respondents (the PDF report mentions 4,000 respondents in 38..."