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Rhonda Clark, UPS chief sustainability officer, shares UPS’s approach to sustainability and highlights the company’s 2014 corporate sustainability report.
IBM is working on a data center cooling system dubbed Thrive, which relies on a heat pump. The aim of the Thrive Project is to identify application scenarios for thermally driven heat pumps for heating and cooling in Switzerland. It will also develop heat pump technology with minimal electricity requirements ... Read more »
CalCharge, an initiative designed to accelerate breakthrough energy storage technologies, welcomes six new member companies: charter members Bosch and Toyota, along with general members Blue Current, Ensor, EnZinc and ITN Energy Systems. The new members will have access to CalCharge’s programs, services and network, designed to help clear the path ... Read more »
According to the Digest of UK Energy Statistics, published annually by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), the country saw an increase in combined heat and power (CHP) plants in 2014: a net number of 12 projects added after some existing projects were decommissioned. Four industrial sectors account ... Read more »
XChanger Companies has been awarded its second grant from the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Energy Engineering. The grant money will be used to install another of its HVAC airflow technology systems in a second commercial building. The first grant the company received was used in the Holmatro USA ... Read more »
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AirRevive, a Florida commercial air conditioning refurbishment and re-commissioning company, developed a custom fan coil unit upgrade service that the company says reduces direct energy use by up to 80 percent and eliminates the need for replacement coils. The service combines custom fan coil refurbishment to address the unit’s deficiencies ... Read more »
Trane expanded its series of Cold Generator scroll water chillers to serve a wide variety of facilities. The portfolio features traditional and compact models that include advance controls with Building Management System compatibility interfaces. Each chiller is scaled for delivery through a standard doorway for ease of installation in new, retrofit ... Read more »
Back in the 1970s when California first experienced serious water shortages, citizens and businesses were asked, and in some cases required, to scale back on water consumption. While it was inconvenient, most everyone in the state believed the restrictions were only temporary. The assumption was that once a major rain ... Read more »
UPS yesterday announced agreements for up to 46 million gallons of renewable fuels over the next three years, constituting a 15-fold increase over prior contracts. Neste, Renewable Energy Group (REG) and Solazyme will supply renewable diesel to UPS to help facilitate the company’s shift to move more than 12 percent ... Read more »
Green Life Waste Solutions has improved efficiency and safety by installing a Gold Rush model free jam two-ram baler designed and made by Catawba Baler & Equipment (CB&E), Recycling Today reports. The Burlington, North Carolina-based waste management company had been running a single-ram baler at maximum capacity and workers had ... Read more »
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Water technology company Xylem has been awarded a $6 million contract to provide pumps in the Panama Canal expansion program. Xylem is providing its heavy duty Godwin dewatering pumps to fill the third set of basin locks on the Pacific Ocean sector, with 1.7 billion gallons of water, as part ... Read more »
Mars reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 5 percent and fossil fuel-based energy use by 9 percent between 2007 and 2014, according to the company’s 2014 Principles in Action Summary annual report. The global manufacturer of confectionery, pet food and other food products has committed to eliminating fossil fuel use ... Read more »
A new online tool allows businesses to benchmark and improve their environmental, social and governance (ESG) business practices. The Root360 survey, developed by Manomet’s Sustainable Economies Program, takes about 15 minutes to complete and includes a tool for comparative benchmarking and an interactive analysis tool to help businesses evaluate options ... Read more »
Camfil Air Pollution Control has launched what it says is the industry’s first web-based system for dust collection diagnostics. The new GoldLink system provides round-the-clock access to dust collection operations by monitoring four preset analog inputs and 16 preset digital inputs. Designed for facilities that do not have building management ... Read more »
Metals recycling and products firm Commercial Metals Company has selected Durant, Oklahoma, as the location for construction of its second “micro mill.” The micro mill melts, casts and rolls steel from a single uninterrupted strand, producing higher yields and lower energy costs than the traditional minimill process, the company says. ... Read more »
McKinstry installed a new cooling system at the Chelan County Courthouse in Wenatchee, Washington, which will eliminate chemicals from entering the city’s wastewater. The old cooling system at the courthouse relied on an aging cooling tower that was requiring increasing maintenance costs and was near failure. The County Commissioners authorized ... Read more »
The islands of the Caribbean are not only some of the most popular tourist destinations, but they are also economically and ecologically diverse regions with growing energy needs. The strength of each island’s tourism industry, which comprises a large portion their gross domestic product, is largely supported by the beautiful ... Read more »
National DCP, the purchasing cooperative that serves more than 7,000 Dunkin’ Donuts Franchise owners, tapped Energy Source of Providence, Rhode Island, for a facility lighting redesign to save energy. The project at National DCP, which took about 5 weeks to complete, consisted of the removal of inefficient high intensity fluorescents ... Read more »
A new tool that forecasts future electricity needs has been developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Performance of the Power Model Integrator tool was tested against five commonly used forecasting models processing a year’s worth of historical power system data. “For forecasts one-to-four ... Read more »
Verizon has announced Grid Wide Utility Solutions, a new Internet of Things (IoT) platform that provides utility companies with an integrated system for smart metering, demand response, meter data management and distribution monitoring and control. Grid Wide comes with a range of cloud-based applications intended to help utility companies drive incremental ... Read more »
The New York Power Authority and Monroe County, New York, completed a $15.2 million energy efficiency project at the Monroe County Civic Center that will save more than $750,000 in annual energy costs. The upgrades at the Rochester facility are being carried out under Governor Cuomo’s BuildSmart NY program, a ... Read more »
Enel Green Power has brought online a biomass plant to heat geothermal steam at the Cornia 2 geothermal power plant in Tuscany, Italy. The project will increase both the energy efficiency and the power output of the geothermal cycle. A small power plant fueled by forest biomass sourced from within ... Read more »
Schneider Electric’s Uniflair LE Room Cooling series for data centers has received the Department of Energy’s certification for energy efficiency. The Uniflair LE uses highly efficient electronically commutated (EC) fans, intelligent controls and optimization during part-load operation. The Uniflair LE perimeter units provide efficient cooling for any data center environment. ... Read more »
This article was co-authored by Kristin Meek. Last June, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed the first-ever standards to limit carbon dioxide pollution from existing power plants, known as the Clean Power Plan. After an extended comment period during which the agency received more than 4 million comments, EPA is expected ... Read more »
Tiffany & Co. has committed to reducing its total global greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent from 2013 to 2020, according to its 2014 sustainability report. While the high-end retailer experienced a 7 percent increase in global Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions between 2013 and 2014, it said emissions ... Read more »