Sustainable Energy Management News & Industry Best Practices

$1 Million Available for NYC Buildings that Switch to CFLs

December 22, 2006October 3, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Public Energy Solutions has launched Operation Kill-A-Watt in New York after being contracted by Con Edison to manage its targeted load reduction program throughout the City. The companies are urging New Yorkers in selected zip codes and targeted load areas who are using 25 or more incandescent light bulbs in their ... Read more »

BHEL Wins Another Contract From Indian Oil for Co-Generation Plant

December 22, 2006December 25, 2006 by Paul Nastu

BHEL has bagged another major order from Indian Oil Corporation for setting up an energy efficient co-generation power plant at its Haldia Refinery Complex. The order, for a Frame-5 Gas Turbine-based Co-generation power plant, is worth Rs.1,650 Million. The project is being set up to meet the requirement of uninterrupted power supply, ... Read more »

Golf Course Upgrades Could Yield 30% Energy Savings

December 21, 2006October 3, 2009 by Paul Nastu

A three-year pilot project now underway in Southern California hopes to show that by upgrading irrigation systems, golf facility operators can reduce operating costs by using less energy and water. Southern California Edison is offering customers cash rebates based on the energy savings achieved. In some cases, the rebates are enough ... Read more »

New York State Evaluating PHEV Technology

December 21, 2006 by Paul Nastu

The New York State Energy and Research Development Authority has awarded A123Systems, a developer of nanophosphate-based batteries, and Hymotion contracts to provide three converted plug-in hybrid electric passenger vehicles. NYSERDA wants to identify a PHEV-conversion method for its 400-plus New York State-owned hybrid electric vehicles – primarily late-model Toyota Prius, ... Read more »

Poultry Industry Evaluates Solar for Growout Houses

December 20, 2006October 3, 2009 by Paul Nastu

WorldWater & Power will build a $500,000 PV system to power Allen Family Foods’ poultry growout house in Laurel, Delaware. Growout houses take day-old chicks and raise them to maturity. The poultry industry is looking to solar as a cost effective, sustainable energy source for the future of growout contractors ... Read more »

Constellation NewEnergy Sends RECs with Holiday Cards

December 20, 2006 by Paul Nastu

Here’s a marketing idea that’s hard to beat. Constellation NewEnergy, which has helped many of its customers incorporate renewable energy solutions into their electricity needs, is making a green energy purchase for each of the Christmas cards that it sends to its business customers and friends throughout the U.S. and Canada. Every ... Read more »

Palo Alto Named Green Power Community

December 20, 2006 by Paul Nastu

Palo Alto is the first city in California, and the fourth city in the country, to be certified as a Green Power Community by the EPA. Palo Alto qualified for this certification with a two percent green power purchase collectively as a community. “The City’s efforts should serve as an ... Read more »

300 Computer Products Meet EPEAT Standard

December 19, 2006October 3, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Nine manufacturers are participating in EPEAT, the EPA-funded green computer standard released in July. More than 300 computers are now registered. The manufacturers are (links lead to EPEAT profiles): Apple, CTL, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, NEC Display Solutions, Northern Micro, Panasonic, and Sony. Many of these manufacturers also made Greenpeace’s report ... Read more »

Corning Cuts Lighting Costs 40%

December 19, 2006October 3, 2009 by Paul Nastu

High-efficiency fluorescent lamps chosen by Corning Inc. for its Kennebunk, Maine factory combined with other improvements, have cut electricity use for lighting by roughly 40 percent, Maine Today reports. The Corning plant, which employees 300 workers, represents one of the largest project aided by Efficiency Maine, which offers up to $50,000 a ... Read more »

Solar Entech Readies Power Conditioning Software

December 19, 2006December 19, 2006 by Paul Nastu

Solar EnerTech says it is looking forward to the sales and marketing boost it will get from the one-year extension of the solar ITC in H.R. 6111. The act extends the 30 percent solar energy investment tax credit for homeowners and businesses for one additional year, through to the end of ... Read more »

Duke’s Anderson: Tax Carbon Emissions

December 18, 2006October 3, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Taxing carbon emissions will produce immediate, economywide gains in energy efficiency and new, carbon-free energy production, Duke Energy Chairman Paul Anderson said last week at a Sierra Club workshop in San Francisco on what to do about global warming. “All the other approaches will take decades,” Anderson said, Inside Bay Area reports. “A ... Read more »

Truckee Utility Rejects Wholesale, Coal-Fired Power Deal

December 18, 2006 by Paul Nastu

California’s Truckee Donner Public Utility District board of directors has rejected a proposed 50-year deal to buy wholesale-priced power from a proposed coal-fired power plant in Utah after dozens of ratepayers and renewable energy advocates testified that Truckee should not be supporting an energy-generating system that contributes to global warming, ... Read more »

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