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Best practices and strategies related to reducing the environmental impacts of energy, water, emissions and waste at factories, commercial buildings and campus-related facilities.

Merryvale Vineyard’s Production Facility Goes Solar

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 »

Congress Extends Solar Energy Tax Credits

Congress passed legislation extending the 30 percent solar energy investment tax credit for homeowners and businesses through the end of 2008, Solar Energy Industries Association reports (via CleanTech Blog). The industry sought an eight-year extension. Residential Solar Tax Credit: Extends a 30-percent tax credit, created in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, ... Read more »

IPPNY: DEC’s RGGI Pre-Proposal ‘Myopic’

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has released a preliminary draft set of rules to implement the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in New York which includes the auction of 100 percent of emissions allowances. Comments are due by January 12. RGGI is a market-based cap-and-trade program to reduce carbon ... Read more »

DOE Considers Tech Sector Energy Audits

On the heels of a plethora of announcements about products to make data centers more energy-efficient, technology companies including Google, IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard met with federal regulators to discuss fears that volatile and expensive energy could hinder the tech sector, Sillicon Valley reports. The U.S. Department of ... Read more »

2006 National Green Power Award Winners & Project Descriptions

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy  and the Center for Resource Solutions recently announced the annual Green Power Leadership Awards, recognizing leading national green power purchasers and suppliers. Descriptions of each award recipient’s efforts are from the EPA. They can be found in the 2006 Awards Ceremony ... Read more »

CPUC Issues Proposed Decision on REC Ownership

The California Public Utilities Commission has issued a proposed decision regarding distributed generation renewable energy credits in the California solar initiative proceeding, Solarbuzz reports. Renewable distributed generation owners are allowed to maintain ownership of all their RECs irrespective of whether or not they participate in the CSI, self-generation incentive program, or net ... Read more »

Xcel Seeks Commercial Customers for Solar Projects

Xcel Energy is looking for 7,000 megawatt-hours of solar power from commercial customers who can put photovoltaic panels on their rooftops or land in Colorado, The Denver Business Journal reports. Xcel wants the power, as well as the renewable energy credits that solar power projects generate. Each proposal must be rated ... Read more »

LAX Adds 30 Alt-Fuel Vehicles

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 »

EMC Tackles Energy Efficiency in the Data Center

EMC Corporation has launched new assessment and planning services and tools to help businesses increase energy efficiency in the data center. “As energy costs continue to rise and power grid capacity is pushed to the brink, energy provisioning and consumption are emerging as critical concerns for today’s CIOs, IT administrators and ... Read more »

Financial Services Institutions Eye Carbon Emissions

The largest global financial services organizations have carbon footprints in the region of 500,000 metric tons of CO2 per year, and an institution’s IT electricity consumption can be responsible for up to 65 percent of the total, according to Bank Technology News. Some financial institutions have taken steps to do ... Read more »

PSE Issues Solar-Power Facility RFP

Puget Sound Energy has issued an RFP (PDF) to develop the Pacific Northwest’s largest solar-powered generating facility at the company’s Wild Horse Wind Project in Eastern Washington. At 500 kilowatts, the solar project would roughly double the state’s entire solar-powered electricity generation and be four times bigger than any solar facility ... Read more »

New Window Prototype Could Save Billions

The DOE has announced a next-generation commercial and residential window prototype that could save billions of dollars annually in energy costs. The new window concept is the result of collaboration between DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and SAGE Electrochromics. This prototype incorporates dynamic electrochromic glass that can be electrically controlled to ... Read more »


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