Contracts & Installations
UMass Medical School, National Grid Partner for 7.5MW Cogeneration Plant
The University of Massachusetts Medical School plans a 14,000-square-foot cogeneration expansion of its existing power plant, using a $5.6 million check from National Grid - ...
Sustainability at Lafarge’s Harbour Plant
Here's a look at sustainability at Lafarge Canada's Harbour plant, situated very near to a metro Vancouver residential community.
Defense Department Targets 3GW of Renewables by 2025
The Department of Defense has pledged to deploy 3 GW of renewable power - including solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal - by 2025, in what ...
Ebay Installs Solar Panels after Utah Lobbying Victory
Ebay has installed its largest renewable energy project - a 665 kW solar installation at its Topaz data center in South Jordan, Utah - enabled ...
Hasbro to Improve Product-to-Package Ratio by 15%
Toy manufacturer Hasbro Inc. has announced plans to reduce materials used in product packaging for many of its popular global brands, including My Little Pony, ...
Leakage Rates ‘Threaten Green Benefits of Natural Gas’
Failure to reduce methane leaks has the potential to eliminate much, if not all, of the greenhouse gas advantage of natural gas over coal, according ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: NASA, LEED, Green-e, ASHRAE 90.1, ISO 14001
Here's the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes seven items.
NASA's newest building at Ames Research Center at ...
Solar Installations to Flatline in 2012, Rebound by 2017, Lux Says
Annual solar capacity additions will rise by just 0.4 GW in 2012, with 26.9 GW expected to be installed this year, and industry revenues will ...
Providers Revealed for Government-Backed Commercial Efficiency Projects
British Gas, E.ON and Kingfisher, owner of home improvement chain B&Q, are among 22 initial providers under the Green Deal, the U.K.. government's program to ...
Canberra LED Retrofit Predicted to Save $15,000 a Year
Nuclear measurements company Canberra has completed a lighting retrofit at its in Meriden, Conn., facility using Noribachi Illumination LED products expected to save 63,000 kWh ...
Lighting and Sustainable Healthcare
Philips Lighting masterclass session at the NHS Sustainability Conference, February 2012.
Fleet Briefing: Azure Bankruptcy Halts Ford Production; UPS, Smart Driving, Anti-Idling Kiosks
Azure Dynamics, supplier of the Ford Transit Connect Electric delivery van's all-electric powertrain, has filed for bankruptcy protection. This temporarily halts production of Ford's TCEs ...
Danone Developing Bio-Based Bottles with Avantium
Danone, the global food and drinks manufacturer, has partnered with biotech company Avantium to produce bio-based plastic bottles made from renewable material that ...
Building Energy Ratings Policy Would Save $18bn, Create 59,000 Jobs by 2020, Report Finds
A national building energy rating and disclosure policy would cut energy costs by over $18 billion through 2020, and create more than 59,000 net new ...
SAP Measuring Footprints of 35,000 Danone Products
German software corporation SAP is helping French food group Danone to measure the individual carbon footprints of 35,000 of its products, as the food firm ...
Lucid Providing Energy, Water Monitoring to Seattle 2030 District
Energy and water monitoring services from Lucid's Building Dashboard product have helped building owners in an area of downtown Seattle to track cuts in ...
LNG Drilling Rigs Cut Fuel Costs 47 Percent, Encana Says
Encana, Canada's largest natural-gas producer, saved $830,000 in fuel costs, a cost reduction of 47 percent, by switching the power for its shale gas drilling ...
Liberty Paper Mill to Self-Power with Anaerobic Digester
Liberty Paper's mill in Becker, Minn., is expected to completely self-power using a $15 million water pretreatment plant with bio-gas generator, writes the Minneapolis ...
Renewables Briefing: Sainsbury's 6.9MW Solar PV, RGS Energy Capital, Wells Fargo, Navy Biojet Fuel
British supermarket chain Sainsbury's has installed 6.9 MW solar PV systems on store rooftops in the south of England. The series of 115 projects, completed ...
BioShaft Water Technology Lands Four Middle East Contracts
BioShaft Water Technology has been awarded several industrial and domestic contracts to install wastewater treatment and recycling systems in the Middle East, including two for ...
