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Metered New York said last week that it has released first time meter data from large apartment buildings in New York City. Collected data generally is from municipal or industrial and commercial structures. The apartment building data is not new: It comes use in 2014. It is broad, however. Almost 6,000 ... Read more »
Walmart saves $1 billion a year on its improved fleet efficiency alone. In an interview, senior director of sustainability Fred Bedore talks Science Based Targets and its plan to reduce supply-chain emissions by 1 gigaton by 2030.
The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources has expanded its Green Communities program by 30 cities, according to Wicked Local’s Brookline edition. The goal of each existing and new member is to reduce energy use by 20 percent within five years. The story says that the program has been ongoing since ... Read more »
Idaho Power’s Irrigation Efficiency Rewards program will cover replacement parts in irrigation systems in a program aimed at making them both more effective and energy efficient. The Capital Press says that the program, which is only open to irrigation systems powered by electricity, covers 11 sprinkler parts. The information was ... Read more »
The US Department of Energy is awarding $1.2 million to Southern California Gas Co. to run a pilot project that converts wastewater solids to renewable natural gas or liquid fuels.
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Procurement managers are almost always trying to find sustainably produced material, a new survey says.
Tucson Electric Power‘s 417,000 customers in southern Arizona will be able to choose from several new pricing plans under revised rates approved (Docket No. E-019933A-15-0322) on February 8 by the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC).
In the Florida Senate, the Communications, Energy & Public Utilities Committee voted unanimously (5-0) on February 7 to approve a measure (SB 90) sponsored by State Senator Jeff Brandes (R-District 24) that exempts solar and renewable energy devices from property taxes on real and tangible personal property installed on commercial and industrial property.
Last month, the social-media giant Facebook announced plans to build a third foreign data center near Odense, Denmark – using a similar energy efficiency design to those the company already has in place in Lulea, Sweden, and Clonee, Ireland
Why convert a diesel fleet to compressed natural gas? Lower fuel and operational costs and reduced emissions are important reasons, according to corporate fleet owners that are making the switch.
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The California Department of Water Resources has released a new report from NASA showing that areas of the San Joaquin Valley are sinking, which could lead to serious water crisis that would impact California's commercial and industrial sector.
Sun Chemical has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Onyx Renewables that Schneider Electric, which structured and brokered the deal, says will save the company about $400,000. Schneider Electric’s press release says that Onyx Renewables will design, install, own and operate rooftop and carport-top photovoltaic arrays that ... Read more »
L+M Development partners and the Jonathan Rose Companies are planning a 751,000 square foot net-zero energy building for East Harlem in New York City. The complex is named Sendero Verde and will take up most of the block bordered by 111th and 112th streets on the north and south and ... Read more »
Few single elements have as big an impact on the energy efficiency of a structure as its roof. John Letts, the Technical Director of Insulations in the Firestone Building Products’ Technology Department, does a very good job of describing the two major families of insulation at Faculty Executive. The story, ... Read more »
IBISWorld released a study this week that says the prices of solar panels installation decreased 18.3 percent during 2016. The study said that prices will drop still further in 2017, but at only a 4.4 percent rate. One reason that the category is hot is the prospect of rougher seas ... Read more »
The updated TSCA requires that the EPA report on its chemical risk evaluations annually. The agency has posted its first such report.
A subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce will start to hear testimony next week from witnesses on how to improve the Clean Air Act, which was written in 1970 and amended in 1990 under Presidents Nixon and Bush.
Ameresco has broken ground on a project in Phoenix that will turn biogas, generated by wastewater treatment, into renewable natural gas that can be sold as transportation fuel. It also illustrates the financial opportunity in partnering with municipalities on environmental management challenges.
Here are some of the recycling technology announcements we’re following this week.
Along with experts from 25 other universities, 44 companies, seven national labs, and 26 industry trade associations and foundations, researchers from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) will play a pivotal role in a new U.S.-funded consortium that will aim to improve the energy efficiency of the nation’s industrial manufacturing processes by 50 percent by 2027, the
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) proposed a $15 million program on February 7 to accelerate the use of renewable heating and cooling technologies statewide.
Efforts by Ohio’s traditional monopoly power companies – American Electric Power, headquartered in Columbus, Akron-based FirstEnergy, and Dayton Power & Light – to persuade legislators to scrap competitive markets and return to a fully regulated system could run afoul of an important political player – voters, according to a February 2 report by the Cleveland Plain Dealer..
There are two distinct levels to the Internet of Things (IoT). The one with which most people are familiar connects consumer devices and other relatively lightweight pieces of equipment. The other is the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). As the name implies, its realm is deep within manufacturing and industrial ... Read more »
Climate change, and its related business risks, is a key future corporate sustainability reporting trend, according to a report from the Global Reporting Initiative and advisory firm SustainAbility.
Elcon Recycling Services LLC wants to open for a wastewater treatment facility in Pennsylvania, having petitioned the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection after a long silence.