http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:49:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/uss-largest-ground-source-heat-pump-set-for-ball-state/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/uss-largest-ground-source-heat-pump-set-for-ball-state/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:29:41 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69798 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 the U.S., if not the world. The pump will cut the University’s carbon footprint roughly in half, the school says. It will also eradicate almost all of its $3 million [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/uss-largest-ground-source-heat-pump-set-for-ball-state/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/hydrogen-plant-to-save-air-products-exxonmobil-facilities-15-energy/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/hydrogen-plant-to-save-air-products-exxonmobil-facilities-15-energy/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:51:50 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69794 Air Products has cut the ribbon on a hydrogen manufacturing facility that uses excess gas from a neighboring ExxonMobil refinery when making its product. Hydrogen manufactured at Air Products’ Rotterdam, Netherlands, facility (pictured) is then used by the refinery for the desulphurization of oil products and in the manufacture of petrochemicals. Processes applied at the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/hydrogen-plant-to-save-air-products-exxonmobil-facilities-15-energy/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/soffe-cuts-lighting-costs-65-with-retrofit/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/soffe-cuts-lighting-costs-65-with-retrofit/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:12:27 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69750 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, N.C. headquarters. The subsidiary of Delta Apparel has engaged Piedmont Service Group to upgrade 2,500 lighting fixtures during the next four months. Piedmont will install LED lights in conference rooms [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/soffe-cuts-lighting-costs-65-with-retrofit/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/09/windows-8-targets-application-efficiency/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/09/windows-8-targets-application-efficiency/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:08:40 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69716 Microsoft’s Windows 8 (pictured) will increase energy efficiency in the operating system’s applications, according to two of the product’s developers. One example of this new drive for efficiency, described in a blog post by lead program managers Sharif Farag and Ben Srour, is Windows 8′s background tasks infrastructure. The infrastructure enables developers to code applications in [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/09/windows-8-targets-application-efficiency/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/09/lighting-brief-soraa-cree-and-marvell/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/09/lighting-brief-soraa-cree-and-marvell/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:38:14 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69707 California-based lighting startup Soraa has launched an LED lamp that it says emits more light per LED material and can handle more electric current per area than its competitors products. The Soraa LED MR16 lamp is the first LED bulb that rivals the light performance of a 50W halogen lamp, Soraa says. Cree has introduced [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/09/lighting-brief-soraa-cree-and-marvell/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/tva-power-savings-could-come-from-energy-efficient-appliances/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/tva-power-savings-could-come-from-energy-efficient-appliances/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:25:51 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69635 The mass installation of such energy efficiency measures as compact fluorescent lighting and heating and cooling systems could effectively flatten Tennessee’s power demand for the next 18 years, according to research commissioned by utility Tennessee Valley Authority. The research by Global Energy Partners estimated the region’s achievable savings potential at 3,256 to 7,494 gigawatt-hours by [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/tva-power-savings-could-come-from-energy-efficient-appliances/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/ameren-asks-for-15-rate-hike-efficiency-spend-to-double/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/ameren-asks-for-15-rate-hike-efficiency-spend-to-double/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:07:09 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69466 Utility Ameren Missouri is planning a 14.6 percent rate hike next year to reimburse investments in renewable energy, efficiency and reliability. The subsidiary of Ameren Corporation filed an electric rate increase request with the Missouri Public Service Commission, saying the $376 million increase is needed to cover investments as well as operating costs. The company [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/ameren-asks-for-15-rate-hike-efficiency-spend-to-double/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/siemens-launches-drive-train-savings-estimator/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/siemens-launches-drive-train-savings-estimator/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:15:10 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69448 The Drive Technologies division of Siemens Industry Inc. has launched its online Energy Savings Estimator, a tool that allows companies using drives, motors, couplings and gearboxes to estimate potential energy savings across their entire drive train. The online Energy Savings Estimator – which Siemens says is an industry first – requires the end user to [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/siemens-launches-drive-train-savings-estimator/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/ensave-ecology-and-environment-launch-farm-energy-audits/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/ensave-ecology-and-environment-launch-farm-energy-audits/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:37:25 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69481 EnSave and partner Ecology and Environment have launched an audit service for farm energy uses including tillage, harvesting, and waste management. The Landscape Agricultural Energy Management Plan quantifies farm energy use and provide specific, cost-effective recommendations to achieve farm production goals while utilizing energy more efficiently, the companies say. EnSave President and CEO Craig Metz [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/ensave-ecology-and-environment-launch-farm-energy-audits/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/power-assure-launches-data-center-management-system/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/power-assure-launches-data-center-management-system/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:25:35 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69413 Data center energy management firm Power Assure Inc., has announced an integrated data center power monitoring and analytics system that it says improves the reliability and energy-efficientcy of data centers. The system uses Power Assure’s secure cloud-based EM/4 Energy Management software and Raritan’s intelligent power monitoring products. It provides accurate, real-time information on infrastructure performance. [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/03/power-assure-launches-data-center-management-system/feed/ 0