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PG&E and Hi-Tech Companies Offer Incentives on Energy Efficient Server Technology

Pacific Gas and Electric has started a utility financial incentive program to support virtualization projects in data centers in northern and central California. VMware, Intel  and other high tech leaders have gotten behind the project. Virtualization allows operating system application stacks to be mapped optimally to the underlying hardware resources, increasing ... Read more »

SunPower to Acquire PowerLight

SunPower, a manufacturer of solar cells and solar panels, is positioning itself as a solar power plant designer, developer, and operator with the acquisition of PowerLight, a privately owned solar systems provider. The total price for the acquisition is $265 million upfront plus a retention carve-out of $67.5 million vesting over 2 to ... Read more »

San Diego Gas & Electric Increases Renewables by 120MW

San Diego Gas & Electric  has contracted for an additional 120 MW of solar and geothermal power by 2010. Two solar contracts with Bethel Energy will add nearly 100 MW of renewable electricity to SDG&E’s energy portfolio. Another contract with Esmeralda Energy will supply an additional 20 MW of geothermal energy ... Read more »

Ohio Markets State as Alt-Energy Leader

Ohio is pushing hard to be recognized as an ideal location for the alternative energy industry. As part of the state’s marketing efforts, the Ohio Business Development Coalition has targeted alternative energy and is working to promote the state’s initiatives in alternative fuels and the benefits of the recent business ... Read more »

Whole Foods Sells Wind Energy Credits

Whole Foods Market has signed up with Renewable Choice Energy to sell a Wind Power Card, available at approximately 80 Whole Foods Market locations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. Produced by Renewable Choice Energy, Wind Power Cards let consumers buy certified wind energy credits equivalent to ... Read more »

Special Inspection Planned for Largest Nuclear Plant in U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials will begin a special inspection of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station’s core safety injection valves next week. NRC officials have scheduled a Nov. 20 meeting with the executives of the triple-reactor plant west of Phoenix to discuss ongoing repair issues, the Houston Chronicle reports. The ... Read more »

California’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Identified & Measured

The California Energy Commission has released a  report that provides estimates of the state’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared over a 15-year period. The report, Inventory of California Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990 to 2004, provides policy makers and researchers with the sources of emissions that could alter the climate ... Read more »

11 States to Receive First Hybrid School Buses

IC Corporation, the nation’s largest school bus manufacturer, has won a bid to provide up to 19 hybrid school buses to 11 states. New York, California, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Arkansas, Iowa and Washington will be the first states in the nation to receive the hybrid school buses. Advanced ... Read more »

Companies Set Aggressive Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Goals

Thirteen companies are setting new targets for reducing their emissions, which range from nine percent up to net zero. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is recognizing these Climate Leaders for pledging to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, EPA is welcoming 21 new organizations to its program. Efforts by ... Read more »

Google Plans Largest US Corporate Solar Installation

I Solutions, the systems integration arm of Energy Innovations, will begin constructing a solar electricity system for Google’s Mountain View, California, headquarters campus. With a total capacity of 1.6 megawatts -? enough to supply 1,000 average California homes -? the Google system will be the largest solar installation on any ... Read more »

Wells Fargo Commits to Largest-Ever U.S. Corporate Purchase of Renewable Energy

Wells Fargo will buy renewable energy certificates to support generating 550 million kilowatt-hours of wind energy a year for three years, making Wells Fargo the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in the U.S. The purchase will offset 40 percent of Wells Fargo’s electricity consumption with 100 percent wind energy. ... Read more »


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