Carl Weinschenk, Author at Environment + Energy Leader

Enphase Launches Envoy-S, Tabs AT&T

September 10, 2015 by Carl Weinschenk

Enphase Energy has launched Envoy-S, a gateway that controls the Enphase Energy Management System. The company describes the system as an integrated scale platform for solar generation, control, energy management and storage. The new gateway provides usage data, remote updating and load management functions. Envoy S – which works with ... Read more »

US Photovoltaics: Strong in Residential, Struggling Elsewhere

September 9, 2015 by Carl Weinschenk

The solar industry in the United States surpassed 20 GW of operational solar photovoltaic capacity during the second quarter of 2015, according to the quarterly report from GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association. The report says that 1,393 megawatts of photovoltaics were added last quarter. The residential sector ... Read more »

South Portland, ME, Embarks on $15.7M Energy Efficiency Project

September 9, 2015 by Carl Weinschenk

The City Council of South Portland, ME has begun construction of a solid waste transfer station, which is part of long term $15.7 million energy efficient project. The project also includes a municipal services facility, which is slated to begin in March and be complete in June, 2017. The city this ... Read more »

Coca-Cola’s Roanoke Bottler Completes Energy Challenge

September 9, 2015 by Carl Weinschenk

The Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated Roanoke plant has reduced its carbon emissions by 12 percent since 2004, completing a challenge by the Coca-Cola Company and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The Energy Challenge was launched in January, 2011 as an effort to improve plant performance at Coca-Cola’s 850 plants worldwide. It became ... Read more »

Minnesota Housing Project Gets EPA Energy Star Certification

September 9, 2015 by Carl Weinschenk

A multi-family housing project in Duluth is the first multifamily housing project to receive an EPA award for energy efficiency in Minnesota. The Steve O’Neil Apartment, which is used to shelter homeless people, won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star Certification. That means, according to Minnesota Public Radio News, ... Read more »

Navigant: LED Market to Total $216 Billion to 2024

September 9, 2015August 2, 2019 by Carl Weinschenk

The global market for LED lamps and modules will total $216 billion from this year to 2024, according to Navigant Research. The researchers found that prices have dropped to the point that they are an economical choice and that the category is benefitting from the attention paid to LEDs’ energy ... Read more »

PPL Gets Okay for Revised Smart Meter Program

September 9, 2015 by Carl Weinschenk

PPL Electric Utilities, which serves central and eastern Pennsylvania, got approval from state regulators last week to revise its smart meter program, according to citizensvoice.com. The okay came more than a year after a $450 million proposal to update kilowatt-hour reading devices to 1.4 customers was announced. The original plan ... Read more »

Small Gaming PC Changes Could Lead to Huge Energy Savings

September 9, 2015 by Carl Weinschenk

Computer manufacturers could save enormous amounts of power by redesigning gaming computers, according to research released last week by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The lab found that gaming computers represent 2.5 percent of the global base of PCs, but consumer 20 percent of the energy. The typical gaming device, ... Read more »

AliCloud Creates Ultra Efficient Data Center

September 8, 2015 by Carl Weinschenk

AliCloud has opened the AliCloud Qiandao Lake Data Center. The data center, which is near Qiandao Lake in China’s Zhejian Province, aims for an average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) ratio below 1.3 and a Water Usage Effectiveness Ratio below 0.2, according to the company, which is Alibaba Group’s cloud computing ... Read more »

New HVAC Systems in Georgia and Iowa

September 8, 2015 by Carl Weinschenk

The Newton County, GA, commissioners agreed in principle last week to refinance the county’s administration building and install a new HVAC system at the Covington Branch of the county’s library system. This follows the commitment in mid-August to provide $750,000 in funding. It was unknown at that point how the ... Read more »

Hitachi Planning Move in Wind Turbines

September 8, 2015 by Carl Weinschenk

Hitachi is considering a step into the wind turbine market. The company may produce nacelles for 5 megawatt wind systems by the end of March, 2016, according to The Japan Times. The line would be established in Ibaraki Prefecture, where the company already makes nacelles for 2 mW systems. The new ... Read more »

Stem to Join CAISO

September 8, 2015 by Carl Weinschenk

Stem, which describes itself as an intelligent energy storage firm, has bid into the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) real-time market via its aggregated customer storage systems. Stem’s predictive software is combined with Olivine’s platform to enable bidding and automatic dispatch of stored power to the energy market, according to ... Read more »

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