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Telecommunications providers – cable operators and wired and wireless companies – generally run a great number of small and often unmanned facilities. Cable headends, cell towers and other facilities collectively use tremendous amounts of power. Equipment needs electricity to run, of course. The gear also must be kept at recommended ... Read more »
Exxon's new CEO Darren Woods has come out in favor of a carbon neutral carbon tax. How serious is he?
This week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a press statement that the state’s solar power capacity has increased 800 percent between the 2011 start of his administration and last year. The story on the announcement at Triple Pundit said that investments have risen to $1.5 billion and that ... Read more »
The National Wind Technology Center (NWTC) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) awarded a 1-MW/1-MWh energy storage test project to Renewable Energy Systems, the UK-based firm with offices in Broomfield, Colorado, announced on February 22.
In Massachusetts, four schools districts and one town are drawing energy from a 3.68-MW ground-mounted solar project on a brownfield site in Billerica, 20 miles north of Boston that went online on February 23, utility scale developer Soltage has announced.
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In a letter to shareholders last week that provided a fourth quarter and full-year 2016 update, Tesla announced plants “to finalize locations for Gigafactories 3, 4, and possibly 5.”
When the US Green Buildings Council announced its Top 10 States for LEED this year, it found the desire to become low energy users to be a primary concern.
Gwinnett County, Georgia is taking part in a water program that could become a harbinger of the future: The Global Cities Team Challenge is smart city project that will employ so-called smart water meters that help crews find and fix water leaks sooner than in the past.
Municipalities increasingly are driving down the use of electricity wherever possible. Some of the communities are small. For instance, the city of Mt. Lake, MN, is considering energy efficiency steps that would lead to significant savings. The projects would demand cash outlays that also are significant, however, according to The ... Read more »
A program that converts hard-to-recycle plastics into energy, launched last fall in the Omaha, Nebraska area, plans to expand across the US.
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Sustainable packaging, especially in the beverage industry, is a top food packaging trend for 2017.
The World Bank’s global policy scorecard suggests there are business opportunities for private companies in helping governments achieve their carbon emissions targets.
The EPA is expecting emissions to fall now that it has implemented its Refrigerant Management Program
The Atlanta Falcon’s new stadium is expected to save 29 percent in energy usage compared to a typical stadium design and has a 680,000-gallon cistern for water recapture and reuse.
The supercomputer at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, CA, is using an innovative modular approach that is designed to get researchers the answers that they need, while reducing the high level of energy and water traditionally required for these cutting edge machines. Scientific Computing lays out the issue: ... Read more »
Microsoft engineer Sean James – who honed his skills working on-board a U.S. Navy submarine before joining the tech giant – came up with a “watershed idea” several years ago: He said that submerging the company’s data centers could solve several problems by introducing a new power source, greatly reducing cooling costs, and closing the distance to connected populations.
Two facilities in Trenton — The Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DE) – are among the buildings that have been approved for retrofit projects, according to New Jersey Spotlight. The two buildings are expected to save $500,000 annually. Projects also were approved ... Read more »
The Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) Program has awarded a joint grant to Whisker Labs, a division of Earth Networks, to study the potential economic benefit of shifting customers’ electricity loads through the use of its Connected Savings energy management platform, the recipient announced on February 22.
Paris-based GE Renewable Energy announced on February 22 that it had been selected to supply equipment for the first commercial, integrated solar-wind hybrid power generation project in the industry
In the Maine State Legislature, An Act to Limit Rates Charge by Competitive Electricity Providers (HP 192) has been sponsored by State Representative Norman Higgins (R-District 120) and referred to the Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology.
Packaging for e-commerce has taken on a new dimension, given that the demands on it are often greater than those of traditional retailers.
UK lawmakers are considering a deposit and refund scheme where shoppers are charged a small deposit at point of sale, and they receive the money back when they return their plastic bottles for recycling.
Rules related to stormwater discharges from construction activities took effect last week that require construction site operators to, among other activities, comply with pollutant discharge limits and properly store chemicals so that they don’t enter waterways.
India's Supreme Court has ordered industrial facilities there to quit operating near bodies of water unless they have effluent treatment plants that treat sewage and industrial wastewater.
Dell is the latest company to turn ocean plastics into new products and packaging as businesses increasingly address the problem of plastic waste — and see potential in creating circular supply chains.