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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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