Contracts & Installations

EL Pro Rockcastle Regional Hospital Installs Green Earth Solar Array

Rockcastle Regional Hospital Installs Green Earth Solar ArrayRockcastle Regional hospital in Kentucky and Green Earth Solar have installed a 60.9 kW solar array on the roof of the hospital's Outpatients Services Center. The ...

December 23, 2011

Ameresco, DoE Announce Completion of Cogeneration Facility

Ameresco, DoE Announce Completion of Cogeneration FacilityThe U.S. Department of Energy has issued energy service company Ameresco final acceptance for the completion of the Savannah River Site Biomass Cogeneration Facility in ...

December 23, 2011

Chicken-Manure Biodigester to Power Md. Prison, Wisconsin at Work on $255m Biomass Plant

Chicken-Manure Biodigester to Power Md. Prison, Wisconsin at Work on $255m Biomass PlantMaryland's state Board of Public Works has approved a biomass project at an Eastern Shore prison. The project gives Virginia company EcoCorp a 30-year lease ...

December 23, 2011

Stimulus Funding for Georgia Convenience Stores Lighting Retrofit Project

Stimulus Funding for Georgia Convenience Stores Lighting Retrofit ProjectThe Georgia Association of Convenience Stores (GACS) lighting retrofit fund has retrofitted more than 30 convenience store locations across the state. The group is one ...

December 23, 2011

EL Pro FedEx to Fund Transportation Projects in Mexico, Brazil, India

FedEx to Fund Transportation Projects in Mexico, Brazil, IndiaFedEx will provide $1.4 million over two years to EMBARQ - the World Resources Institute’s sustainable transport arm - to provide technical expertise on sustainable ...

December 21, 2011

Futuremark Paper Inks Deals with Hearst, Pepsi, Others

Futuremark Paper Inks Deals with Hearst, Pepsi, OthersHearst Magazines, PepsiCo and the Sierra Club are among a list of new clients now using FutureMark Paper Company's recycled paper. Other organizations newly signed by ...

December 19, 2011

EL Pro Energy Management Software for Aflac, Alcatel-Lucent; Polaris 3D Lighting Software Upgrade

Energy Management Software for Aflac, Alcatel-Lucent; Polaris 3D Lighting Software UpgradeSupplemental insurance provider Aflac has chosen Hara's energy management and sustainability software, Hara said. The insurance provider is looking to improve data accuracy for sustainability ...

December 19, 2011

Gammel Engineering to Generate from Methane with FlexEnergy Turbine MT250

Gammel Engineering to Generate from Methane with FlexEnergy Turbine MT250Energy technology company FlexEnergy has signed its first commercial order for the Flex Turbine MT250 EX to Gammel Engineering, a German engineering company specialized ...

December 19, 2011

Ignazio Messina & Co, Hamworthy Krystallon Install First Commercial Marine Scrubber

Ignazio Messina & Co, Hamworthy Krystallon Install First Commercial Marine ScrubberThe first of four Ignazio Messina & Co.-owned vessels installed with marine scrubbing technology from manufacturer Hamworthy Krystallon has come on line. Linea Messina is the first ...

December 19, 2011

Gevo, Coke Team Up on Eco-Bottles

Gevo, Coke Team Up on Eco-BottlesRenewable chemicals and biofuels firm Gevo Inc. has reached an agreement with The Coca-Cola Company to supply renewable para-xylene for the beverage giant's bottles. The para-xylene ...

December 16, 2011

EL Pro EV Briefing: Frito-Lay Adds Smith Electric Trucks; Ram 1500 PHEV; IKEA, Kohl's Work with ECOtality

EV Briefing: Frito-Lay Adds Smith Electric Trucks; Ram 1500 PHEV; IKEA, Kohl’s Work with ECOtalityPepsiCo's Frito-Lay North America will roll out eight new electric trucks in the Boston area, bringing the company's all-electric trucks fleet up to 176 vehicles ...

December 16, 2011

US Foods Lighting Retrofit Reduces Energy Use by 8%

US Foods Lighting Retrofit Reduces Energy Use by 8%Food distributors US Foods says it will save more than 2 million kWh in 2011 by retrofitting lighting throughout the company. Since 2007, lighting retrofits ...

December 16, 2011

Kimberly-Clark, SCE, Prologis Unveil 4.9 MW Solar Array

Kimberly-Clark, SCE, Prologis Unveil 4.9 MW Solar ArrayKimberly-Clark, utility Southern California Edison and real estate management firm Prologis have installed a 4.9 MW solar array on the roof of the paper products ...

December 16, 2011

EL Pro Dell, Goodwill Add 319 Recycling Locations

Dell, Goodwill Add 319 Recycling LocationsElectronics giant Dell and Goodwill Industries have announce that an additional 319 donation sites in the U.S. have joined the Dell Reconnect computer recycling program. With ...

December 15, 2011

Rite Aid Taps Ecova for Energy Management

Rite Aid Taps Ecova for Energy ManagementDrugstore chain Rite Aid has selected Ecova to provide utility expense and energy management services for its 4,700 U.S. locations. The Ecova system will provide Rite Aid ...

December 14, 2011

Maverick Chooses Meritor Automatic Tire Inflation

Maverick Chooses Meritor Automatic Tire InflationMaverick Transportation has chosen the Meritor Tire Inflation System by Pressure Systems International as a standard fuel-saving measure on all new trailers purchased in 2012. MTIS ...

December 14, 2011

Maersk, US Navy Team Up on Biofuels

Maersk, US Navy Team Up on BiofuelsShipping firm Maersk and the U.S. Navy are testing algae-based biofuel on the container ship Maersk Kalmar. The ship is en route from Northern Europe to ...

December 14, 2011

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Canada Drops Kyoto Protocol, Keystone Pipeline, Gulf Lease Sale, MATS

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Canada Drops Kyoto Protocol, Keystone Pipeline, Gulf Lease Sale, MATSCanada is evoking its legal right to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, indicating that penalties as high as $14 billion for its failure to meet emissions ...

December 14, 2011

EL Pro Del Monte Taps Locus for Energy Management

Del Monte Taps Locus for Energy ManagementDel Monte Foods has selected Locus Technologies' ePortal platform to provide an integrated system for monitoring and managing its energy use, water, and other sustainability efforts. The ...

December 13, 2011

Calif. State Publisher Buys Munters Dry Evaporation Units

Calif. State Publisher Buys Munters Dry Evaporation UnitsFour indirect evaporative cooling units built by Munters Corporation were recently installed at the California Department of General Services, Office of State Publishing in Sacramento, Calif., ...

December 12, 2011