Contracts & Installations

Sainsbury’s Offers Free London Electric Car Charging

UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's is installing electric car charging systems at 11 of its London supermarkets. The retailer intends to give away charging services ...

Wal-Mart Adding LEDs to 650 Stores

Megaretailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to use LED lights inside 650 new and renovated stores. Cree Inc. has been selected to handle the installation, ...

System Upgrades Power Up Energy Savings for Hotels

For hotels, going green translates into energy-saving projects with some very tangible results. These include the Hilton New York's energy fuel cell installation that is nearly ...

Waste Management Landfill Gas Project Complete

A Waste Management Inc. landfill gas capture project at the Altamont Landfill near Livermore, Calif., has finally come into production, and now is powering 300 of ...

Metal Recyclers Spar Over Ship Recycling Site

A proposed California ship recycling venture to revamp nearly 17 acres of waterfront, including two massive historic dry docks, as a ship recycling, repair and building ...

Former Sears Tower May Sport World’s Tallest Green Roof

As the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere readies itself for a major energy efficiency overhaul, engineers have developed what may be the world's ...

Kraft Foods to Purchase 30,000 tons of Sustainable Cocoa by 2012

Bolstering its commitment to sustainable cocoa farming, Kraft Foods has launched the first mainstream chocolate products in Europe to carry the Rainforest Alliance Certified seal. ...

Ford, Azure Dynamics to Deliver All-Electric Van for U.S., Canada

Aimed at offering fleet owners the opportunity to eliminate the use of gasoline and lower their operating costs with a zero-emissions option, Ford Motor Company ...

Dole Facility Cuts Lighting Energy Use 95%

Switching to solid-state LED high-bay lighting has helped Dole Fresh Produce Co. save about 95 percent on lighting energy at a particular cold storage ...

UCF Lighting Retrofit to Save $42K, Pay For Itself in 1.2 Years

By switching to more efficient lighting, a University of Central Florida parking garage will see savings of $42,000 a year. UCF swapped out 500 lighting ...

GE, BP Partner on Carbon Capture Coal Plant in CA

GE and BP plan to jointly build a 250 megawatt coal power plant that is designed to capture and store 90 percent of emissions. ...

Solar Growth Causes Water Worries

California and other western states are pegging their energy future on renewables, including solar. But that growth comes at a cost to ...

Old GM Plant to Make Fisker Hybrids

Fisker Automotive, which aims to make a plug-in hybrid sedan for around $40,000, has signed a letter of intent to purchase an idle General Motors plant ...

Big Week for Solar Announcements

With the Solar Power International conference taking place Oct. 27-29, a host of solar headlines are hitting the wires. ...

Arizona Air Force Base Community to Rely 75% on Solar

The Soaring Heights Community at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base will become the largest solar-powered community in the continental U.S., upon ...

Owens Corning Insulation Plant Uses 100% Renewable Energy

A new manufacturing plant for Owens Corning uses 100 percent renewable energy. The Gresham, Ore., plant has a solar photovoltaic system installed by ...

‘Green’ Building Retrofits To Be 20-30% of Commercial Projects By 2014

Green building currently accounts for five to nine percent of the retrofit and renovation market activity by value, which equates to a $2 billion to $4 ...

Verdegaal Bros. Offsets 99% of Energy Bill With Solar

A new fixed-mount solar installation at a California agricultural company should save the company about $60,000 a year in energy costs. The new 188-kilowatt system at Verdegall ...

Dairy Farm Ties Into Grid With Methane Plant

Westminster Farms, a Vermont dairy company, partnered with Green Mountain Power to build an on-site plant to convert methane into electricity. The project, which ...

Food Lion, National Gypsum Adding Rooftop Solar

Among several solar installations coming in North Carolina, Food Lion and National Gypsum are adding rooftop solar. The installations come as part of a ...