Contracts & Installations
Standards & Compliance Briefing: LEED Certification, Energy Star Builder, Cedar Grove Composting, IESO/RIA 6001-2011
The Primera Terra luxury condominium community, designed by KTGY Group and built by KB Home, has earned the National Association of Home Builders BALA platinum ...
Energy Efficiency Financing ‘Ready for Commercial Real Estate Market’
Energy efficiency financing is on track to become a mainstream class of financial assets that enjoys predictability, large volumes and high standardization, according to a ...
UC Installs Ten 'Smart Labs'; Expects 20%, 2-Year Electricity Drop
The University of California - Irvine expects to cut electricity use by 20 percent from 2010 to 2012, after installing ten "smart lab" systems ...
U.S. Bank Taps Eco2Go for Recycling
U.S. Bank is expanding its recycling program, and in the process, has been the impetus for the launch of Eco2Go Recycling Solutions LLC, an Ohio ...
Unilever ‘Green’ Freezers Cut Energy Use 10%
Ben & Jerry's and its parent company, Unilever, are starting the U.S. roll-out of ice cream freezer cabinets that are expected to ...
US Foods to Go 85% Solar in NYC Area; Cox Installs Fuel Cells
US Foods has announced that nearly 85 percent of its New York City area division's annual energy will come from solar power by July ...
HBO, LIPA Team Up for Efficiency Upgrade
Long Island Power Authority is helping Home Box Office fund and install energy efficiency measures in an expansion of an existing communications center that should ...
Bell Carter Gets Rebate, Under 1-Year ROI for Wastewater Aeration System
Bell Carter Foods, an olive processor in Corning, Calif., has received a $114,475 utility rebate for efforts to reduce the energy consumption of its ...
US’s Largest Ground Source Heat Pump Set for Ball State
Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., is on the cusp of turning on what it says will be the largest ground source heat pump in ...
Renewables Briefing: World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm, 1.3 MW Solar Installation at Navy's SPAWAR
The $1.5 billion, 367 MW Walney Farm, the world’s biggest offshore wind project, opened in the Irish Sea nine miles off the shore of the ...
Soffe Cuts Lighting Costs 65% with Retrofit
The M.J. Soffe Company, a manufacturer of active apparel, expects to cut lighting costs by 65 percent with an energy efficiency project at its Fayetteville, ...
Nike, DyeCoo In Waterless Dyeing Team-Up
Nike Inc. has entered into a strategic partnership with DyeCoo Textile Systems B.V., a Netherlands-based company that has developed and built the first commercially available ...
UPM to Build Major Biodiesel Refinery
Finnish paper company UPM is to build the world's first industrial-scale plant to turn a wood byproduct into biodiesel.
The Lappeenranta, Finland, biorefinery will produce annually ...
Solvay Unveils 1MW Nedstack Fuel Cell
Chemicals company Solvay has unveiled its 1MW fuel cell built by Nedstack.
The emission-free system was installed at the Solvay's Lillo, Belgium, facility in September 2011. ...
Industrial Energy Program Surpasses Expectations
A program to save energy at industrial facilities in the Pacific Northwest produced more than 28 average MW in verified energy savings in fiscal ...
HireRight Data Centers Cut Energy 45%
Employment screening products firm HireRight has improved the efficiency of its data center infrastructure and technology.
The improvements increase performance by 50 percent, decrease power consumption ...
White Rose, Ariz. Schools Install Over 9 MW of Solar
White Rose, an independent wholesale food distributor, has begun operation of a 4.88 MW roof-mounted photovoltaic system at its warehouse in Carteret, N.J.
The ...
Building Management Briefing: EDF Energy Corps, Incenergy, Cylon, Atlanta Housing Authority
Boeing, Caesars Entertainment, DirectTV and National Geographic are among the first 20 companies to join the Environmental Defense Fund's Climate Corps in 2012. The program ...
Fleet Briefing: AT&T Orders 1,200 CNG Vans; Waste Management, BAE, Caterpillar
AT&T has ordered 1,200 Chevrolet Express compressed natural gas cargo vans for delivery to its service centers nationwide. General Motors says it is its largest ...
LNG Ferry to Manage Energy Use with ABB Software
A cruise ferry fueled by liquefied natural gas will use ABB software to manage its energy use.
STX Finland is building the NB 1376 ...
