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/2012/01/04/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 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/08/25/ge-bundles-ev-tech-with-hertz-cars-forms-chp-venture/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/08/25/ge-bundles-ev-tech-with-hertz-cars-forms-chp-venture/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:45:49 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=60577 Hertz and GE Industrial Solutions China have announced a partnership aimed at renting electric vehicles to multinational companies and government agencies in China. In the agreement, the companies have agreed to co-locate the Hertz electric vehicles and GE charging infrastructure across China. The two companies will bundle EV leasing and charging facilities together. Hertz has [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/08/25/ge-bundles-ev-tech-with-hertz-cars-forms-chp-venture/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/08/23/clearedge-raises-73-5m-for-fuel-cell-market-expansion/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/08/23/clearedge-raises-73-5m-for-fuel-cell-market-expansion/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:09:23 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=60435 Fuel cell manufacturer ClearEdge Power has raised $73.5 million in Series E financing through the sale of new shares and the conversion of previously issued promissory notes. New investors include Artis Capital Management, Austria-based Güssing Renewable Energy, Southern California Gas Company – a regulated subsidiary of Sempra Energy – as well as existing investor Kohlberg Ventures. [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/08/23/clearedge-raises-73-5m-for-fuel-cell-market-expansion/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/08/17/industrial-distributed-power-to-grow-up-to-85-in-five-years/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/08/17/industrial-distributed-power-to-grow-up-to-85-in-five-years/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:50:36 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=60106 The total capacity of industrial distributed generation is set to grow by at least 46 percent between 2011 and 2016, according to a report by Pike Research. The report, Industrial Distributed Generation, says that total IDG capacity will rise from 91 to 133 GW under a “slow growth” forecast scenario. A more optimistic scenario, assuming [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/08/17/industrial-distributed-power-to-grow-up-to-85-in-five-years/feed/ 0