Contracts & Installations

World’s Largest Wind Farm Debuts in Texas

In West Texas, the world's largest wind farm has opened. The 781.5 megawatt ...

Reno’s Peppermill Resort Pumps $8.1M into Geothermal

Tapping into clean renewable geothermal energy, the Peppermill Resort Spa Casino in Reno, Nev., has a solution to cover 100 percent of the facility's hot ...

Texas Electricity Users May Pay for Utilities’ Bypassing Stimulus Funds

Purchasers of renewable energy in Texas may pay a higher rate after the companies building a $5 billion renewable energy transmission network in the ...

Arizona Solar Deal Falls Apart While Feds Give a Boost to Other Projects

As federal agencies get set to approve several renewable-energy projects, primarily in the western part of the country, a solar deal between Starwood Energy Group Global ...

NJ Health Care Facility to Add 1.8 MW Solar Array

The Carrier Clinic in Montgomery, N.J., plans a 1.8 megawatt solar array under a power purchase agreement (PPA) with enXco, ...

Tesco Adopts Carbon Accounting Software

Tesco, which has 4,000 supermarket locations in 14 nations, has adopted a new carbon accounting software to help it meet its goal ...

Minnesota’s Target Center Completes Green Roof

At 2.5 acres, the green roof atop the Target Center in the Twin Cities is the nation's fifth-largest and the first installed on a North American ...

Nevada National Guard Adding 3.4 MW Solar PPA

Solar parking lot structures will add electricity at three Nevada Army National Guard sites. The structures will begin construction in November and should be operational by ...

Alberta Ice Arena Lowers Energy Consumption 28% With LEDs

By switching to high bay LED lighting, the Bowden Ice Arena in Alberta was able to decrease the amount of energy used on lighting by 28 ...

La Quinta, Shaw Recycle 30 Tons of Carpet

When La Quinta Inns & Suites renovated some hotels recently, it recycled 30 tons of carpet through Shaw Industries, which is reclaiming ...

American Life Green Roof to Cut Cooling Costs 20-30%

A vegetative roof atop the headquarters of American Life and Accident Insurance Co. of Kentucky will reduce heating and cooling needs by 20-30 percent. The green roof, ...

Universities of Toledo, Minnesota Embrace Eco-buildings

The University of Toledo has added a Campus of Energy and Innovation, while the University of Minnesota's new football stadium has earned LEED Silver status. At the ...

Green Wall Lowers Temperature 25%

North America's ...

IBM Makes Cities and Utilities Smarter with New Technologies

Moving forward with its strategy for a Smarter Planet, IBM is helping cities and utilities become smarter by providing new technologies and tools to help them ...

DOE to Fund Large-Scale Renewables Transmission in Montana

Businesses in Western states should find it easier to purchase renewable energy in the future. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is financing a ...

SCA Sees Environmental Benefit From New Wastewater Treatment Plant

A wastewater treatment plant at SCA’s Munksund paper mill in Sweden went online in June. The mill produces paper mass and kraftliner, a starting material for packaging. SCA says that the new treatment plant will ...

Philips Lumec, Visible Light, EcoFit Make LED Advances

For businesses and government facilities looking to reduce their energy costs, a lighting retrofit may be the answer. Philips Lumec, Visible Light Solar and EcoFit LEDs ...

Ford Plant to Become Renewables Factory

Ford's decision to sell its Wixom manufacturing plant will result in one of the nation's largest renewable energy manufacturing complexes. Xtreme Power of Austin, ...

Brooklyn Tourism Firm to be 100% Powered by Solar

City Merchandise, a New York souvenir distributor, will be 100 percent powered by a 68.47 kW commercial solar system. Once complete, the array will be the ...

Software Drives Smart Grid Deployments

In order to deliver real-time communications over smart-grid networks, utility companies like Duke Energy and Xcel Energy are partnering with technology companies that can deliver the ...