Consumption

Austin, Texas, Joins US’s Top Ten Renewable Energy Buyers

Austin, Texas, Joins US’s Top Ten Renewable Energy BuyersThe recent announcement by the City of Austin, Texas, that it is now powers all of its facilities using only renewable energyhas made the municipality ...

October 26, 2011

GSA Issues Net Zero Retrofit Challenge

GSA Issues Net Zero Retrofit ChallengeThe U.S. General Services Administration has announced its Net Zero Renovation Challenge, which aims to get the private sector to improve the energy performance of federal ...

October 21, 2011

Green Drive Saves Hilton $74m in Two Years

Green Drive Saves Hilton $74m in Two YearsLightStay, the sustainability measurement system used by Hilton Worldwide and its portfolio of 10 hotel brands, has saved the company more than $74 million since its ...

October 21, 2011

Noveda, Aramark to Partner on College Resource Management

Noveda, Aramark to Partner on College Resource ManagementResource management specialist Noveda Technologies and facilities management firm Aramark have announced a strategic partnership aimed at developing tools to manage energy and water consumption in ...

October 20, 2011

SageSim Launches Retrofit ROI Simulator

SageSim Launches Retrofit ROI SimulatorSageSim LLC, a provider of return on investment simulation technology, has launched a residential and commercial energy system simulator. SageSim-es is a web-based application that uses variables ...

October 13, 2011

Water Briefing: WeatherTrak, PPG, Converted Organics, Ridgeline

Water Briefing: WeatherTrak, PPG, Converted Organics, RidgelineThe Dorchester condominium association in Palm Beach, Fla. saved 1.1 million gallons of water after implementing the WeatherTRAK Smart Water Management platform ...

September 28, 2011

FirstFuel Gets $2.4m Funding Boost for ‘Zero-Touch’ Energy Audit Software

FirstFuel Gets $2.4m Funding Boost for ‘Zero-Touch’ Energy Audit SoftwareFirstFuel Software has secured a $2.4 million initial round of financing to quickly scale and accelerate adoption of its Rapid Building Assessment platform, which provides remote, ...

September 23, 2011

Data Revealed: Google Uses More Power than Salt Lake City

Data Revealed: Google Uses More Power than Salt Lake CityGoogle has broken its silence on energy consumption, announcing that it consumed 2,259,998 MWh in 2010. In a new section on the Google Green ...

September 9, 2011

Patagonia to Help Customers Reuse Clothing, in an Ebay ‘First’

Patagonia to Help Customers Reuse Clothing, in an Ebay ‘First’Patagonia is encouraging consumers to buy and sell its clothing through a new storefront on Ebay, paired with a customer pledge system. The outdoor apparel ...

September 8, 2011

EL Pro Allstate Cuts Internal Paper Use 41% in Two Years

Allstate Cuts Internal Paper Use 41% in Two YearsAllstate has cut its paper consumption dramatically and has continued cutting its carbon emissions, but saw its energy use increase slightly last year, according ...

September 6, 2011

SABMiller, WWF Seek Water Futures Partners

SABMiller, WWF Seek Water Futures PartnersBrewer SABMiller, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature and the German international development agency GIZ have asked businesses, NGOs and other organizations to join their Water ...

September 1, 2011

WPPI Taps Siemens, eMeter for Smart Grid Install

WPPI Taps Siemens, eMeter for Smart Grid InstallSiemens Energy is installing meter data management system eMeter EnergyIP for Midwest-based WPPI Energy and its member utilities. The eMeter management system will allow WPPI members to ...

August 31, 2011

Toys R Us Includes Environmental Features in 44 Stores

Toys R Us Includes Environmental Features in 44 StoresToys R Us has announced that 21 new stores and 23 remodeled locations, all opening this year, will boast a range of ...

August 24, 2011

EL Pro GRI Cuts Electricity, Heating; Conference Emissions Rise

GRI Cuts Electricity, Heating; Conference Emissions RiseThe Global Reporting Initiative’s electricity and heating consumption both fell in 2009/10 while conference-related emissions rose, the organization reported in its latest sustainability ...

August 22, 2011

Cisco, 1E to Integrate IT and Building Management

Cisco, 1E to Integrate IT and Building ManagementCisco and 1E have signed a partnership agreement to integrate their energy consumption software, according to news reports. Business Green reported that 1E is ...

August 19, 2011

Building Cap-and-Trade System ‘An Ingenious Approach’

Building Cap-and-Trade System ‘An Ingenious Approach’The world’s first cap and trade system just for buildings could prove a model for other municipalities seeking to cut emissions, according to ...

August 11, 2011

DuPont Plant Saves 540 Billion Btu

DuPont Plant Saves 540 Billion BtuA DuPont plant in Orange, Texas has been honored by the American Chemistry Council for energy-efficiency improvements that saved about 540 billion btu. The DuPont ...

August 11, 2011

Data Center Energy Growth Slows, Defying Predictions

Data Center Energy Growth Slows, Defying PredictionsElectricity use by data centers in 2010 was significantly below predictions, according to new research by a Stanford University professor. In research carried out for ...

August 3, 2011

US Pulls Record Energy During Heat Wave

US Pulls Record Energy During Heat WaveThe extreme heat wave that swept through the Midwest and has now moved to the northeast has massively increased the demand for electricity as people turn ...

July 25, 2011

EL Pro Bank of America Cuts Scope 1 & 2 GHGs by 8%

Bank of America Cuts Scope 1 & 2 GHGs by 8%Bank of America reduced its net Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 7.5 percent from 2009 to 2010, according to ...

July 14, 2011