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Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders. Cimarron Energy: The manufacturer of oil and natural gas production, process and environmental equipment has hired Jeffrey L. Foster as chief executive officer. Foster joins the company from MicroSeismic where he was president and CEO since 2014. International ... Read more »
The North Carolina Utilities Commission has informed (Docket No. E-2, Sub 1089) two nonprofits – NC WARN and The Climate Times – that they must put up a $98 million bond for the right to appeal a power plant construction permit issued to Duke Energy Progress, according to a July ... Read more »
Arlington, Texas, has successfully negotiated a nine-year fixed-price retail electricity supply contract with the assistance of Priority Power Management (PPM), a management and consulting firm that specializes in meeting the needs of large commercial, industrial, and government customers.
he California Independent System Operator (CAL-ISO) released final study results on July 12 – revealing the potential effects of creating a multi-state, regional electric market.
Intel and other chip makers are cutting energy use in computer devices. Those incremental gains are important -- but will pale in comparison to fundamental design changes that will be necessary when Moore's Law finally runs its course.
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The Tyco International de Mexico manufacturing facility has achieved ISO 50001:2011 certification, according to the company.
The tops of some municipal buildings in St. Cloud, MN will be outfitted with solar panels next year, according to the SC Times.
The US Energy Information Administration has said that most coal plants are either coming into compliance with mercury rules or they are retiring their older coal units that are too expensive to retrofit. From December 2014 until June 2016, coal-fired capacity fell from 299,000 megawatts to 276,000 megawatts. Coal-fired generation's share of total electricity generation fell from 39 percent in
Thus far, June has been a much less newsworthy month than May for the demand-side management (DSM) industry. But, it does represent the traditional start of the summer demand response (DR) season, so we will see if it becomes a busy DR season or a light one like the last few years.
“Jackson Family Wines’ commitment to sustainability goes one step further by successfully piloting energy storage. They are on the forefront of the intelligent energy system revolution. This is a great pilot to be studied and replicated at more wineries in the future.” Jackson Family Wines is a family-owned wine company ... Read more »
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3D printing company Voodoo Manufacturing teamed up with Filabot to recycle plastic waste into 3D filament. Over the past eight months, this partnership has allowed Voodo to recycle more than 600 pounds of plastic.
As part of a $15 million effort to make agriculture more productive and sustainable, Bayer and DuPont have partnered with ag-tech venture capital firm Finistere Ventures, Cloud Break Advisors to launch an ag-tech accelerator fund.
In an effort to reduce emissions from the building sector, the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) is launching net zero building certification and training.
The Nevada Public Utilities Commission (PUCN) has found that MGM Resorts International and Wynn Las Vegas (Docket Nos. 15-0517 and 15-05006, respectively) have complied with all outstanding requirements – and that the casinos may withdraw from NV Energy’s bundled electric services program this year, instead purchasing their energy on the open market.
The 2030 Districts program is gaining steam. The latest district is in Ithaca and Tomkins County, New York. Late last month, it became the thirteenth district -- and a fourteenth may be on the way.
The London underground will use EnerNOCs demand response technology, according to the company.
TNT Energy, a division of Revolution Lighting Technologies, will install LEDs for New Bedford, MA, under a $4.3 million performance contract, according to the company.
IHS Large plants and facilities face increasingly stringent regulatory pressure to manage larger amounts of data at a faster frequency than ever before. Companies all over the world are moving to higher frequency data collection and calculations.
DuPont has now gone through two full trials to determine if its chemical called C-8 is responsible for a handful of cancers. The company had been dumping the chemical that used to make Teflon and Stair Master carpet into the Ohio River -- something that two separate juries had determined caused kidney and testicular cancer in the specific cases brought
Andy Hobbs, director of Ford’s environmental quality office, says it’s usually the return water distribution piping — not the water treatment equipment — that makes reuse uneconomical. “For existing sites, rarely is a large water user located near where the treated water is located,” Hobbs told Environmental Leader. “An example is ... Read more »
Evoqua Water Technologies and its recently acquired Neptune Benson business has acquired VAF Filtration Systems, a screen filtration manufacturer based in Arvada, Colorado. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed. VAF manufactures automatic self-cleaning water filters and control valves for a variety of industrial and municipal water applications. Markets include ... Read more »
Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L) filed a request (Docket No. ER-2017-0001) on July 1 with the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) to increase base rates for electric service in one of its service areas.
Petitions to intervene are due by July 15 in Rocky Mountain Power’s filing (Docket No. 16-035-T09) with the Utah Public Service Commission (UPSC) – designed to offer large customers who move in or expand in Utah another option to use renewable energy.
Energy managers, facilities managers and everyone else in the sector should take a moment to congratulate themselves. A number of recently released studies and surveys show that investment in energy efficiency in general -- and commercial buildings in particular -- is growing steadily.
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found an approach that holds the potential of boosting the efficiency of photovoltaics by as much as 40 percent.