FEATURES AND NEWS
While reducing corporate energy consumption is hard, the benefits are profound – for both the planet and the bottom line. To reap these rewards, it is crucial for companies to use people as part of the solution to move further, faster and more strategically.
Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders. Veolia Water Technologies: The resource management giant has appointed Frédéric Théry (pictured) as its new Asia Pacific chief executive officer. Théry has worked in different entities across the Veolia Group over the last 23 years, first moving into ... Read more »
Environmental Leader talks with Ezgi Barcenas, global director of corporate sustainability at Anheuser-Busch InBev, to discuss the company beat its 2017 eco-cooler goal two years early.
llinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced two settlements on May 10 with Peoples Gas and its parent company, Integrys Energy Group, which is owned by WEC Energy Group (WEC), totaling $18.5 million to resolve an Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) investigation and Madigan’s own investigation into Peoples’ misleading statements about the cost of its Accelerated Main Replacement Program (AMRP).
Waste-to-energy company Covanta has partnered with water and waste firm Veolia to develop a waste-to-energy facility near Stewartby, Bedfordshire, UK.
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Federal regulators are delaying a decision on whether to allow a 232-mile liquefied natural gas pipeline in Oregon. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission wants more time and has not given itself a deadline on whether to approve the application submitted Pacific Connector and Jordan Cove.
This week, The YGRENE Energy Fund was lauded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Challenge for facilitating more than $100 million in commercial energy efficiency projects through Property Assisted Clean Energy (PACE) financing. That’s a lot of money – but just the start of the firm’s involvement with commercial entities, said Louis-Philippe Lalonde, YGRENE’s ... Read more »
Seattle PI posted a piece this week about Avista Corp.’s energy efficiency program, which is aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses. The dynamics are different at this level, the piece says: There rarely is a person charged with energy efficiency matters, so the responsibility flows to the boss. He or she has ... Read more »
The utility American Electric Power (AEP) began this week to solicit information from companies interested in jointly undertaking solar projects with its Ohio subsidiary. Columbus Business First reported that AEP has a commitment in place with the Sierra Club to build 900 MW of wind and solar projects in the ... Read more »
With production of shale gas expanding, how will communities manage their water resources?
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To the extent that markets put a premium on green energies and electricity reliability, microgrids will expand.
The EPA today unveiled final regulations to limit methane emissions from new and modified sources in the oil and gas sector.
General Motors has turned trash into cash — to the tune of $1 billion in new revenue streams from recycling and reuse.
A water treatment system by Cambrian Innovation will allow a California brewery to convert spent brewing water into reusable water.
Speaking at a Stanford University conference on May 6 on Setting the Climate Agenda for the Next U.S. President, former U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that America’s powerbrokers should look to Mexico, if they want to understand the true price of renewable energy.
Pittsburgh-area residents whose natural gas is delivered by Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania and electricity by West Penn Power soon could have to pay an extra $20 a month, according to a report in the local Post-Gazette.
It’s only May, but it already has been a good year for Capstone Turbine. The company has announced 13 deals, mostly of multiple units. The key element of a turbine is a wheel or rotor. It is made to revolve by an outside force, which could be water, steam, or ... Read more »
Oil and natural gas prices have fallen 1.2 percent since June 2014, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development have announced new focus areas for the Better Buildings Challenge Accelerator program. The departments have announced three accelerator programs: Better Buildings Clean Energy in Low Income Accelerator, Cities and utilities in the Better Buildings Combined Heat ... Read more »
The Boston Sports Clubs has selected ThinkLite for its LED retrofit. The first location for the ThinkLite LEDs is the 22,000 square-foot facility in the Prudential Center. The company replaced T8 fluorescents with ThinkLite’s 18-watt, 4-foot and 12-watt 3-foot LEDs which, according to the press release, offer more light at ... Read more »
Short-Term Price Benchmark Trends The ERC national average benchmark price for retail electricity increased again last week by slightly more than one percent to $0.0745 per kilowatt hour (kWh). Prices increased in each deregulated market, except Maryland, which experienced a -0.4% decrease to $0.0762/kWh. Texas remains the deregulated market in the ... Read more »
New York Reforming Energy Vision (REV) is extremely complex but at its core it tries to incorporate more renewable energies that are generated on site and deliver electrons via localized microgrids.
Carbon Clean Solutions says the results of its pilot project show that its carbon capture and storage technology could cut the cost of carbon capture by at least 50 percent.
McEneaney, too, says he expects to see more such mandates in the future but it’s unclear where they will originate. Energy costs, state law and local leadership will all play a role these policy decisions. “In some instances, it only takes a small number of local mandates to reach a ... Read more »
Dell is investigating claims that it exported e-waste in violation of company policy, following a report from a watchdog organization about Dell’s e-waste management.