http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 25 May 2012 17:41:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/21/contract-wins-solarcity-pv-delta-and-doe-allure-energy/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/21/contract-wins-solarcity-pv-delta-and-doe-allure-energy/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 13:43:33 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=76939 Campus Crest Communities has partnered with SolarCity to install more than 9,000 solar panels on student housing facilities in Greeley, Colo.; Flagstaff, Ariz.; and Las Cruces, N.M. The “purpose-built” student housing developer says the initiative will provide more than 2.3 million kWh of renewable power annually, offset the housing complexes’ electricity consumption by about 50 [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/21/contract-wins-solarcity-pv-delta-and-doe-allure-energy/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/11/contract-wins-q-cells-pv-on-ikea-turboden-orc-at-heathrow-enernoc-in-sf/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/11/contract-wins-q-cells-pv-on-ikea-turboden-orc-at-heathrow-enernoc-in-sf/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 13:15:02 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=76328 IKEA has ordered 7MW of Q.Cells’ solar modules. The retailer will install Q.Cells’ CIGS thin-film modules on the rooftop of its main warehouse in the northern Italian town of Piacenza within the coming months. Renewables provides 51 percent of Ikea’s energy, up from 47 percent in FY10, according to the company’s 2011 sustainability report. BAA [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/11/contract-wins-q-cells-pv-on-ikea-turboden-orc-at-heathrow-enernoc-in-sf/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/26/renewables-briefing-markey-group-constellation-energy-u-s-air-force/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/26/renewables-briefing-markey-group-constellation-energy-u-s-air-force/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:03:37 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=75113 Here’s the latest news on renewable power installations, contracts, financing, permits and market changes affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Markey Group has opened a £1.1 million ($1.8 million) biomass generator that runs on the wood waste produced from its subsidiary Premiere Kitchens, a supplier of kitchens to public housing projects. The generator features a 2.1 [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/26/renewables-briefing-markey-group-constellation-energy-u-s-air-force/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/17/hilton-installs-green-roof-chp-systems/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/17/hilton-installs-green-roof-chp-systems/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:12:05 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=74376 The Hilton New York – Manhattan’s largest hotel – has installed a green roof and cogeneration system. The 16,000-square-foot green roof system was installed by Xero Flor America and is located on the hotel’s fifth floor rooftop setback. The green roof supports local farming and plays host to locally grown plants harvested from an upstate [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/17/hilton-installs-green-roof-chp-systems/feed/ 5 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/09/renewables-briefing-riverside-8minutenergy-cogenra-solar-mlb-teams/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/09/renewables-briefing-riverside-8minutenergy-cogenra-solar-mlb-teams/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:00:15 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=73772 Here’s the latest news on renewable power installations, contracts, financing and permits affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. The recently-completed $42 million Riverside Renewable Energy project at the Gloucester Marine Terminal in Gloucester City, N.J., received a $11 million federal tax credit Thursday. Along with the federal Section 48 Investment Tax Credit, the project is also [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/09/renewables-briefing-riverside-8minutenergy-cogenra-solar-mlb-teams/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/16/air-products-venture-developing-a-fuel-cell-that-produces-hydrogen/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/16/air-products-venture-developing-a-fuel-cell-that-produces-hydrogen/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:30:54 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=71957 FuelCell Energy and Air Products are working to develop fuel cell power plants that can simultaneously produce hydrogen. The fuel cell provider and the supplier of industrial gases have signed a memorandum of understanding to work towards the market development of the Direct FuelCell tri-generation megawatt-class plants, which would also produce electricity and usable heat. [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/16/air-products-venture-developing-a-fuel-cell-that-produces-hydrogen/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/14/datagryd-green-data-center-includes-9mw-chp-plant-low-voltage-cables/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/14/datagryd-green-data-center-includes-9mw-chp-plant-low-voltage-cables/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:18:16 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=71800 DataGryd has opened an energy-efficient data center, complete with combined heating, cooling and power plant, in the original Western Union Building in New York City. The 80-year old building has undergone a comprehensive infrastructure retrofit to meet the demands of an urban green data center, DataGryd said. The company expects the onsite 9 MW CHP [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/14/datagryd-green-data-center-includes-9mw-chp-plant-low-voltage-cables/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/29/kaiser-permanente-targets-30-ghg-cut-by-2020/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/29/kaiser-permanente-targets-30-ghg-cut-by-2020/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:05:00 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=70801 Health care provider Kaiser Permanente has pledged to reduce its overall greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2020, compared to its 2008 levels. Kaiser produced about 819,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2008, and total emissions increased to 837,000 metric tons in 2010, the last reported year. By investing in clean and [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/29/kaiser-permanente-targets-30-ghg-cut-by-2020/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/2011/11/30/solar-briefing-loreal-carmanah-san-diego-and-cogenra-and-defense-dept/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/30/solar-briefing-loreal-carmanah-san-diego-and-cogenra-and-defense-dept/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:58:42 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=65954 L’Oreal USA’s North Little Rock, Ark., manufacturing facility’s solar array installation is fully operational. The 13 kW solar array will provide 18,000 kWh of electricity annually, enough to power all of the plant’s outdoor lighting requirements. Carmanah Technologies Corporation has designed, supplied and installed a nominal 250 kW solar rooftop photovoltaic array at a commercial [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/30/solar-briefing-loreal-carmanah-san-diego-and-cogenra-and-defense-dept/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/24/eastman-lowers-energy-intensity-exceeds-release-targets/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/24/eastman-lowers-energy-intensity-exceeds-release-targets/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:57:39 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=63975 Eastman Chemical Company met a target of a 2.5 percent energy-efficiency improvement last year, lowering its energy intensity by six percent, according to the company’s second sustainability report. The $6 billion supplier of chemicals to a wide variety of industries, including tobacco, construction, consumer goods, health, transportation and electronics, says that in 2010 it used [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/24/eastman-lowers-energy-intensity-exceeds-release-targets/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/18/sikorsky-turns-switch-on-chp-system/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/18/sikorsky-turns-switch-on-chp-system/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:02:51 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=63707 Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. has cut the ribbon on a combined heat and power cogeneration system at its Stratford, Conn., facility. The CHP system (pictured) produces enough power to supply 84 percent of the 2-million-square-foot Stratford facility’s needs – equal to the annual energy use of approximately 1,100 area homes. The new system also will provide [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/18/sikorsky-turns-switch-on-chp-system/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/12/nestle-purina-purdue-open-major-solar-arrays/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/12/nestle-purina-purdue-open-major-solar-arrays/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:03:37 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=63387 Nestle Purina PetCare and Perdue Incorporated have unveiled major solar arrays in Arizona and Maryland. Nestle Purina’s 1,900 panel, 427-kilowatt solar photovoltaic system covers 70,000 square feet of the roof of its Flagstaff, Ariz., pet food manufacturing facility. The array was developed by REC Solar and will produce nearly 12 million kilowatt hours of solar [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/12/nestle-purina-purdue-open-major-solar-arrays/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/07/epa-announces-watersense-chp-winners/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/07/epa-announces-watersense-chp-winners/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:30:30 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=63138 The Home Depot and KPMG are among companies awarded the Energy Star Combined Heat and Power award and named as 2011 WaterSense Partners of the Year, by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Energy Star CHP award was given to the following facilities: Dominion Transmission–Crayne Station, Waynesburg, Pa. KPMG LLP, Montvale, N.J. University of Cincinnati, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/07/epa-announces-watersense-chp-winners/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/03/hospitals-save-2-3m-a-year-with-chp-plants/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/03/hospitals-save-2-3m-a-year-with-chp-plants/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:34:48 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=62796 Combined heat and power systems at Guy’s Hospital (pictured) and St. Thomas Hospital, both in London, are saving more than £1.5 million ($2.3 million) and almost 11,300 tons of CO2 a year. The hospitals, which together employ 10,000 people and serve more than 850,000 patients a year, used a £10 million grant from the Department [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/03/hospitals-save-2-3m-a-year-with-chp-plants/feed/ 0