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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 »

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 »

Westinghouse Wins China Nuke Reactor Contract

December 18, 2006 by Paul Nastu

China’s State Nuclear Power Technology Company will use the Westinghouse AP1000 as the technology basis for four new nuclear power plants to be constructed in Sanmen and Yangjiang. Westinghouse, with the world’s largest installed base of operating nuclear power plants, said the selection of the AP1000 would create or sustain ... Read more »

BP, OCR Offer Solar Roofing Package

December 15, 2006 by Paul Nastu

Northern California’s largest roofing company, Old Country Roofing, and BP Solar have signed an agreement to offer more than 100 homebuilding companies and homeowners turn-key solar roofing. Eighty-seven percent of all new solar powered homes in the US are built in California. Beginning next month, OCR will offer a complete solar roofing package that ... Read more »

FTA Gives Consortium $9 Million for Hydrogen-Fueled Buses

December 15, 2006October 3, 2009 by Paul Nastu

A business consortium including New Flyer Industries, ISE Corporation and SunLine Transit announced (via Fuel Cell Works) that it will receive $9 million from the United States Federal Transit Administration for two new projects involving hydrogen and fuel-cell buses. The initiatives include $6 million in FTA funding to develop a ... Read more »

Honeywell Energy Plan Saves School District $129,000

December 14, 2006October 3, 2009 by Paul Nastu

A five-year energy savings plan at York School Department buildings in Maine cut $128,903 in energy costs its first year, the Portsmouth Herald reports. In 2004, the School Department, working with Honeywell, designed a $776,000 plan that would pay for itself in five years. Now, with the higher cost of ... Read more »

AES Westover Gets $50 Million in Clean-Coal Emissions Technology

December 13, 2006October 3, 2009 by Paul Nastu

AES is investing $50 million in clean-coal emissions control technology at AES Westover, its 126 MW coal-fired facility near Binghamton, New York . The project will increase AES Westover’s removal rates for NOX emissions from 60 percent today to 90 percent once the project is complete, through the use of a ... Read more »

Merryvale Vineyard’s Production Facility Goes Solar

December 12, 2006October 3, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Napa Valley’s Merryvale Vineyards has installed a 277kW solar electric system for Starmont Winery that will generate enough clean electricity each day to power 78 average homes. Installed by SolarCraft Services, the new system will spare the air nearly 473 tons of harmful greenhouse gases annually. Over the next 30 years, the air ... Read more »

Clif Bar Pays Employees to Cut Emissions

December 11, 2006October 3, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Clif Bar has launched a Cool Commute program program for employees and will pay cash to those who purchase clean-burning biodiesel cars. It also helps employees buy hybrids and offers a variety of rewards to those who leave their cars at home altogether. Al Gore was on hand for the announcement. “There ... Read more »

LAX Adds 30 Alt-Fuel Vehicles

December 6, 2006October 3, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Los Angeles International Airport is buying 30 alternative-fuel buses and trucks – 21 compressed natural-gas transit buses, three liquefied-petroleum-gas light- and medium-duty refuse trucks, and six LPG stakebed trucks. The 21 buses will be purchased for $7,885,648 from North American Bus Industries. Reynolds Buick Pontiac GMC Trucks will provide the refuse ... Read more »

Ethanol Plant Could be Fueled by Construction Waste

December 4, 2006December 4, 2006 by Paul Nastu

A proposed $175 million ethanol plant in Des Moines could pump about $20 million into city budgets in the next five years, the Des Moines Register reports. In addition, a business is exploring building a $22 million facility next to the plant to convert construction waste to gas that would ... Read more »

Hospital’s Clean Diesel Zone to Cover Vendors

December 3, 2006December 3, 2006 by Paul Nastu

Last year, Portland-area hospitals received a $250,000 grant from the EPA through the Oregon Clean Diesel Initiative (PDF) to establish a “clean diesel” zone (PDF), around all of its hospitals, Oregon Live reports. So far the grant has been used to ensure clean diesel emissions from vehicles in the hospitals’ own fleets. ... Read more »

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