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Owens Corning Insulation Plant Uses 100% Renewable Energy

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 ...

October 26, 2009

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

‘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 ...

October 23, 2009

Verdegaal Bros. Offsets 99% of Energy Bill With Solar

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 ...

October 22, 2009

Dairy Farm Ties Into Grid With Methane Plant

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 ...

October 21, 2009

Food Lion, National Gypsum Adding Rooftop Solar

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 ...

October 21, 2009

Chipotle Adding On-site Solar to 75 Restaurants

Chipotle Adding On-site Solar to 75 Restaurants

Burrito chain Chipotle Mexican Grill plans to install solar panels atop 75 restaurants over the next year. In total, the panels should produce about 500 kilowatt ...

October 20, 2009

Tesco’s UK Import Warehouse to be 100% Biomass Powered

Tesco’s UK Import Warehouse to be 100% Biomass Powered

UK retailer Tesco plans to tap into a 295 megawatt biomass power plant in Teesport, England, to supply 100 percent of the energy needs ...

October 19, 2009

Council on Foreign Relations Goes LEED

Council on Foreign Relations Goes LEED

The Council on Foreign Relations' new building in Washington, D.C., took extra steps to attain LEED Gold status by the U.S. Green Building ...

October 16, 2009

Owens Corning, Ripple Glass Begin KC Recycling Project

Owens Corning, Ripple Glass Begin KC Recycling Project

Owens Corning will purchase about 85 percent of glass recycled through a new Kansas City-area project that involves executives of a local brewery. Ripple ...

October 16, 2009

Tetra Pak, HP Join Global Forest and Trade Network

Tetra Pak, HP Join Global Forest and Trade Network

Tetra Pak Inc., a manufacturer of food processing and packaging systems, and Hewlett-Packard have joined World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) Global Forest & Trade Network in ...

October 16, 2009

Rodney Strong Vineyards Goes Carbon Neutral

Rodney Strong Vineyards Goes Carbon Neutral

Already using a 766 kW solar system, Rodney Strong Vineyards has gone the extra step of becoming carbon neutral via purchase of offsets. As ...

October 16, 2009

Catholic Health Taps Into Wind for NY Facilities

Catholic Health Taps Into Wind for NY Facilities

About 10 percent of the electricity used at facilities operated by Catholic Health in New York will be derived from wind energy. Under a ...

October 15, 2009

Quaker Oats Installs Steam Boilers to Cut Fuel 20%

Quaker Oats Installs Steam Boilers to Cut Fuel 20%

The Quaker Oats Bridgeview Division food manufacturing plant has installed two Miura Boiler LX200 gas-fired steam boilers to reduce fuel and water consumption, increase energy ...

October 14, 2009

Largest Defense Solar Facility May Get Bigger

Largest Defense Solar Facility May Get Bigger

Previously announced as having 500 megawatts in capacity, the Fort Irwin solar facility may end up double that size. The ...

October 14, 2009

Brewery Flips Switch on Methane-to-Energy Plant

Brewery Flips Switch on Methane-to-Energy Plant

A heat and power project that takes methane gas created at a brewery and converts it into clean energy to run a nearby hospital ...

October 13, 2009

Toyota USA’s Data Center Efficiencies Reduce Energy Use 10%

Toyota USA’s Data Center Efficiencies Reduce Energy Use 10%

Improvements at the data center for Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. should help decrease emissions and energy use, according to a press release. Toyota ...

October 13, 2009

‘Starbucks Rule’ Factors into Wind Farm Location

‘Starbucks Rule’ Factors into Wind Farm Location

When it comes to choosing a potential site for a wind farm, there's an informal guide that calls for not placing a wind farm ...

October 12, 2009

Frankston Packaging Lowers Energy Use 21% per Unit of Production

Frankston Packaging Lowers Energy Use 21% per Unit of Production

Energy-efficiency improvements at Frankston Packaging Co., a manufacturer of cartons, displays, boxes and transparency films, have resulted in 21 percent lower energy use per unit ...

October 10, 2009

Coke Improving Energy Efficiency, Emissions at 15 European Plants

Coke Improving Energy Efficiency, Emissions at 15 European Plants

In the first of many energy efficiency changes to come, Coca-Cola Hellenic and ContourGlobal have opened an advanced energy-saving power plant in Romania as ...

October 10, 2009

LoyaltyOne Claims Largest Solar Rooftop Project in Canada

LoyaltyOne Claims Largest Solar Rooftop Project in Canada

LoyaltyOne/AIR MILES is targeting LEED certification under the Canada Green Building Council's rating system for its new 50,000-sq. ft. customer care center in Ontario. Scheduled ...

October 8, 2009

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