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The latest utility energy transition news and best practices related to net-zero, renewable energy and plant retrofits.

Impact of Renewable Energy on the Electric Power Grid

Impact of Renewable Energy on the Electric Power Grid

With a $1.23 million grant, researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be creating a distributed power test bed to study how the electricity distribution grid might be affected by the widespread adoption of clean, renewable energy sources. The two-year project, which is funded by the New York State Office of Science, Technology ... Read more »
Peterbilt Hybrid Reduces Fuel Use Up To 40%

Peterbilt Hybrid Reduces Fuel Use Up To 40%

Peterbilt is planning a hybrid-electric medium duty truck – outfitted with a fully integrated bucket lift body -? for 2007 that it says will result in a 30 to 40 percent reduction in fuel use. The Class 7 Model 335 is meant for municipal and utility applications and features improved fuel economy ... Read more »
NYC Elementary School Goes 100% Renewable

NYC Elementary School Goes 100% Renewable

The Metropolitan Montessori School has become the first private, primary/elementary school in New York City to purchase renewable Green Power for 100 percent of its electricity supply. That translates into 136,000 kilowatt-hours of of Wind Energy, which will provide power to the school’s 16,000-square-foot campus. White Plains, NY-based ConEdison Solutions partnered ... Read more »
Companies Set Aggressive Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Goals

Companies Set Aggressive Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Goals

Thirteen companies are setting new targets for reducing their emissions, which range from nine percent up to net zero. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is recognizing these Climate Leaders for pledging to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, EPA is welcoming 21 new organizations to its program. Efforts by ... Read more »
Pepco Wins Baltimore City Public Schools Contract

Pepco Wins Baltimore City Public Schools Contract

Pepco Energy Services will provide a comprehensive energy efficiency and guaranteed savings program for the Baltimore City Public School System. Pepco Energy Services has served as the electricity supplier to the Baltimore City Public School System since June, 2006. Pepco says the contract is worth $55 million and will provide ... Read more »
energyStudy Looks at Rate Impact of a Renewable Electricity Standard

energyStudy Looks at Rate Impact of a Renewable Electricity Standard

The Indiana Coalition for Renewable Energy and Economic Development (ICREED), a coalition of businesses, elected officials, and clean energy groups, recently released (via RenewableEnergyAccess) a rate impact study that describes estimated rate impacts of a Renewable Electricity Standard on Hoosier electric utility ratepayers. That study, authored by Pete Boerger, a ... Read more »
Wells Fargo Commits to Largest-Ever U.S. Corporate Purchase of Renewable Energy

Wells Fargo Commits to Largest-Ever U.S. Corporate Purchase of Renewable Energy

Wells Fargo will buy renewable energy certificates to support generating 550 million kilowatt-hours of wind energy a year for three years, making Wells Fargo the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in the U.S. The purchase will offset 40 percent of Wells Fargo’s electricity consumption with 100 percent wind energy. ... Read more »
Performance Bicycle Co. to Use 100% Renewable Energy

Performance Bicycle Co. to Use 100% Renewable Energy

Performance Bicycle has become the first U.S. sports retailer to use renewable energy exclusively to power its stores, corporate headquarters, distribution centers and call center. The company will purchase over 5,087,260 kWh of renewable energy credits annually — equal to 100 percent of its electricity use — from Renewable Choice ... Read more »
Fairmont Buys 10% Renewable Energy

Fairmont Buys 10% Renewable Energy

The 415-room Fairmont Hotel in Washington, D.C.  has signed a three-year contract with Pepco Energy Services for over 3 million kWh of electricity generated from renewable resources.  Beginning in March 2007, ten percent of The Fairmont’s the energy will come from wind farms located in the Mid-Atlantic region. Pepco Energy ... Read more »
Xcel Energy Plans US's Largest Solar Power Plant

Xcel Energy Plans US’s Largest Solar Power Plant

Xcel Energy has announced that an affiliate of SunEdison will build, own and operate a 8 megawatt central solar power plant in south central Colorado. The power plant will house two solar technologies; concentrating photovoltaic and advanced flat-plate solar panel units. Both the flat-plate solar panel segment of the plant ... Read more »
Salt Lake's Convention Center Gets Grid-Tie Solar System

Salt Lake’s Convention Center Gets Grid-Tie Solar System

Carmanah’s Power Systems Group recently supplied an order to Pioneer Electric Inc., based out of Salt Lake City, for a customized 20 kW grid-tie solar power system. This grid-tie system will be installed on the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. With more than a half million ... Read more »


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