http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:49:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/policy-enforcement-briefing-carb-diesel-vehicles-china-vs-eu-ets-mexico-climate-law/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/policy-enforcement-briefing-carb-diesel-vehicles-china-vs-eu-ets-mexico-climate-law/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:50:49 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69458 California’s On-Road Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles (In-Use) Regulation has shifted the reporting date to March 30, 2012, for most privately and federally owned diesel fueled trucks and buses with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) greater than 14,000 pounds. The regulation requires installation of PM retrofits for heavier trucks beginning January 2012, and replacement of older [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/policy-enforcement-briefing-carb-diesel-vehicles-china-vs-eu-ets-mexico-climate-law/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/01/walmart-rockets-from-15th-to-third-on-epa-green-power-rankings/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/01/walmart-rockets-from-15th-to-third-on-epa-green-power-rankings/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:50:52 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69273 Walmart has shot to third place on the EPA’s rankings of the country’s top green power purchasers, from 15th place just last quarter. The Green Power Partnership ranking, for the retailer’s Texas and California facilities alone, pushes Whole Foods down to fourth place. According to the EPA’s data, Walmart’s facilities in the two states use [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/01/walmart-rockets-from-15th-to-third-on-epa-green-power-rankings/feed/ 3 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/17/bskyb-studio-to-get-40-of-energy-from-biomass-chp/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/17/bskyb-studio-to-get-40-of-energy-from-biomass-chp/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:35:02 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68445 BSkyB, the U.K. satellite and telecoms company, will generate up to 40 percent of the energy for its new main studio campus through a wood chip-fueled combined heat and power project. Steve Holford, head of engineering projects and energy at Sky, told BusinessGreen that the company hopes to turn on the London plant by the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/17/bskyb-studio-to-get-40-of-energy-from-biomass-chp/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/11/verso-completes-28-mw-biomass-project/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/11/verso-completes-28-mw-biomass-project/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:56:00 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68181 Verso Paper Corp. has completed a $45 million renewable energy project at its pulp and paper mill in Quinnesec, Mich. The project includes design upgrades to the mill’s existing combination biomass boiler, a new biomass handling system and a new turbine generator. The improvements delivered 28 MW of additional green energy for consumption within the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/11/verso-completes-28-mw-biomass-project/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/06/renewables-briefing-bloomberg-nokia-dalkia-and-2012-biofuels-predictions/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/06/renewables-briefing-bloomberg-nokia-dalkia-and-2012-biofuels-predictions/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:49:47 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67954 Bloomberg’s Princeton office is close to completing installation of a 1.8 MW solar power system that should generate the equivalent of over 50 percent of the office’s electricity. The company has been working with SunPower Corp. and Integrys Energy Services on the installation (pictured) of this eight-acre, ground-mounted solar tracking system at the Skillman, N.J., [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/06/renewables-briefing-bloomberg-nokia-dalkia-and-2012-biofuels-predictions/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/04/renewables-briefing-sunpower-cei-sound-solar-matinee-chp-in-cambridge-perdue-and-fibrowatt/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/04/renewables-briefing-sunpower-cei-sound-solar-matinee-chp-in-cambridge-perdue-and-fibrowatt/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:00:05 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67801 Matinee Energy Inc. has broken ground on a 120MW solar power plant planned for Benson, Ariz. WEIS GmbH Consortium from Germany supplied project partners for elements of construction, solar components and financing. Agriculture firm Perdue AgriBusiness and animal waste utility developer Fibrowatt LLC have proposed building a 10 MW biomass power facility in Salisbury, Md. [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/04/renewables-briefing-sunpower-cei-sound-solar-matinee-chp-in-cambridge-perdue-and-fibrowatt/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/30/green-mountain-uses-coffee-to-brew-up-energy/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/30/green-mountain-uses-coffee-to-brew-up-energy/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:03:59 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67660 Green Mountain Coffee Roasters – the firm behind the Keurig brand single-serving coffee brewers – is working with University of North Dakota researchers and bioenergy specialist Wynntryst LLC on a project aimed at utilizing the waste from its coffee processing plant to produce energy. The university’s Energy & Environmental Research Center is working with the two [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/30/green-mountain-uses-coffee-to-brew-up-energy/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/23/chicken-manure-biodigester-to-power-md-prison-wisconsin-at-work-on-255m-biomass-plant/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/23/chicken-manure-biodigester-to-power-md-prison-wisconsin-at-work-on-255m-biomass-plant/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:47:54 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67443 Maryland’s state Board of Public Works has approved a biomass project at an Eastern Shore prison. The project gives Virginia company EcoCorp a 30-year lease of a 4.2-acre site at the Eastern Correctional Institute at an annual rent of $100, writes the Baltimore Sun. EcoCorp will build anaerobic digester that will generate electricity out of [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/23/chicken-manure-biodigester-to-power-md-prison-wisconsin-at-work-on-255m-biomass-plant/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/19/gammel-engineering-to-generate-from-methane-with-flexenergy-turbine-mt250/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/19/gammel-engineering-to-generate-from-methane-with-flexenergy-turbine-mt250/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:24:40 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67114 Energy technology company FlexEnergy has signed its first commercial order for the Flex Turbine MT250 EX to Gammel Engineering, a German engineering company specialized in heating plants, combined heat and power plants, district heating, industrial plants and building services. FlexEnergy turbines extract energy from low-quality methane, such as that produced by landfills, oil fields, coal [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/19/gammel-engineering-to-generate-from-methane-with-flexenergy-turbine-mt250/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/14/renewables-briefing-bernard-matthews-china-solar-leap-biggest-wind-hydro-plant/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/14/renewables-briefing-bernard-matthews-china-solar-leap-biggest-wind-hydro-plant/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:05:18 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=65132 Turkey company Bernard Matthews is planning a £4m ($6.4) anaerobic digester at its Holton factory in Suffolk, U.K.,  in a move that the company said would provide 13 percent of the site’s electricity needs, according to the BBC. The digester will use about 28,000 tons of liquid waste a year, the company said. China’s new [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/14/renewables-briefing-bernard-matthews-china-solar-leap-biggest-wind-hydro-plant/feed/ 0