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CSC Targets 30% Energy Reduction
CSC, a global IT services provider, has taken steps over the past year to ensure a sustainable environment by focusing on programs such as energy reduction, ...
Brewery Flips Switch on Methane-to-Energy Plant
A heat and power project that takes methane gas created at a brewery and converts it into clean energy to run a nearby hospital ...
Coke Improving Energy Efficiency, Emissions at 15 European Plants
In the first of many energy efficiency changes to come, Coca-Cola Hellenic and ContourGlobal have opened an advanced energy-saving power plant in Romania as ...
Frito-Lay Among Adopters of Cogen Plants
Adding an on-site electricity generating system that also benefits a manufacturing or business process is becoming increasingly more attractive for major companies and other organizations. Frito ...
Marriott-Whistler Completes Hybrid Heating System
The Residence Inn by Marriott at Whistler in British Columbia (Canada) completed its third and final installment of Sempa Power's Hybrid Heating System. The installation will help reduce GHG emissions while ...
Cogeneration System Could Save Food Service Restaurants $800/Mo
Owl Power Company has announced Vegawatt, a cogeneration system for restaurants and food service facilities. The system turns waste vegetable oil from a restaurant's deep fryer into fuel to generate on-site ...
In Queens, PepsiCo Bottles With Its Own Steam
In Queens, PepsiCo is now bottling drinks using its own steam. Last year, the company spent $2.35 million to install combined heat and power system at its bottling plant in College Point, The New York ...
Owens Corning To Cut GHG Emissions 25%
Owens Corning announced that it will reduce its total U.S. GHG emissions by 25 percent per unit of production from 2006 to 2012. The commitment is part of EPA's Climate Leaders ...
Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery
An anaerobic digestion facility installed by Ecovation will process stillage from the Maker's Mark bourbon whiskey brewing facility to produce a methane and carbon dioxide biofuel to power the distillery's ...
BP’s New Cogeneration Acquisition Will Power Whiting Refinery
BP Alternative Energy has bought Whiting Clean Energy, a 525 MW natural-gas fired combined-cycle cogeneration power plant in Whiting, Indiana, for $210 million from NiSource, BP announced. Power from the alternative ...
Environmental Measures Mean Healthy Returns For Hospitals
More hospitals are discovering the economic and environmental benefits of greening their operations, Nurse.com reports. Hospitals face fines beginning at $40,000 per day if pharmaceuticals are not recycled n compliance with requirements ...
John Deere To Cut GHG Emissions 25% By 2014
John Deere plans to reduce its total global greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent from 2005 to 2014. Deere says it will use the U.S. EPA's Climate Leaders program to forge energy-saving projects ...
Marriott Flips Switch On Tri-Generation Plant
The New York Marriott Downtown has flipped the switch on a "microturbine farm." The installation of two hotel owner-funded PureComfort systems built by UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp. company, makes the ...
Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant
When the construction of Hamilton, Ohio-based SMART Papers' $30 million high-efficiency co-generation power plant is complete in the spring of 2009, the company will produce all of its own power and begin ...
24 Strategies For Green Buildings
The Building Owners and Managers Association International has put together 24 strategies for increasing sustainability and optimizing performance in commercial buildings. Conserve Water 1. Install low-flow aerators, which simply screw onto bathroom faucets and ...
West Virginia Alloys Will Recycle Energy To Power Silicon Plant
West Virginia Alloys, a subsidiary of Globe Metallurgical, the country's largest silicon producer, has contracted Recycled Energy Development to build an electricity-generation system that captures hot gases coming from silicon furnaces to ...
U.S. Steel Proposes $1 Billion Environmental Upgrade
United States Steel Corporation is considering a $1 billion capital investment program at its Clairton plant coke making operation near Pittsburgh to boost the company's environmental performance. The program, which would take place over ...
SC Johnson Cuts GHG Emissions With Cogeneration
SC Johnson says that powering the company's largest global manufacturing plant with cogeneration turbines that run on natural gas and waste methane from a public landfill have prevented GHG emissions equivalent to that ...
Efficiency Could Cut Industrial Energy Use 26%
A new study from the International Energy Agency estimates there is potential for technical efficiency improvements of 18-26 percent for the manufacturing industry worldwide and said energy savings could be larger if new technologies were ...
SC Johnson Announces New GHG Emissions Reduction Goal
SC Johnson has committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its U.S. operations by eight percent from 2005 by the end of 2010. In 2005, the EPA recognized SC Johnson as one of the first corporations ...
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Jake on UPS Trying New Hydraulic Hybrid Trucks
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