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Goldman Sachs Awards Environmental Research Grants

As part of its environmental overhaul last year, Goldman Sachs founded the Goldman Sachs’ Center for Environmental Markets to examine market-based solutions to environmental challenges. The foundation has awarded its first research grants. The three grants, totaling more than $2.3 million, will fund programs focused on finding market-based solutions to climate ... Read more »

U.S., EU Ink New Energy Star Agreement for Office Equipment

The European Union and the U.S. will continue the Energy Star program for office equipment for another five years. Based on the energy efficiency criteria for computers, copiers, printers and computer monitors, the new agreement is expected to yield 30 TWh electricity savings -? the approximate equivalent of the electricity demand in Hungary – ... Read more »

$1 Million Available for NYC Buildings that Switch to CFLs

Public Energy Solutions has launched Operation Kill-A-Watt in New York after being contracted by Con Edison to manage its targeted load reduction program throughout the City.  The companies are urging New Yorkers in selected zip codes and targeted load areas who are using 25 or more incandescent light bulbs in their ... Read more »

Golf Course Upgrades Could Yield 30% Energy Savings

A three-year pilot project now underway in Southern California hopes to show that by upgrading irrigation systems, golf facility operators can reduce operating costs by using less energy and water. Southern California Edison is offering customers cash rebates based on the energy savings achieved. In some cases, the rebates are enough ... Read more »

New York State Evaluating PHEV Technology

The New York State Energy and Research Development Authority has awarded A123Systems, a developer of nanophosphate-based batteries, and Hymotion contracts to provide three converted plug-in hybrid electric passenger vehicles.  NYSERDA wants to identify a PHEV-conversion method for its 400-plus New York State-owned hybrid electric vehicles – primarily late-model Toyota Prius, ... Read more »

300 Computer Products Meet EPEAT Standard

Nine manufacturers are participating in EPEAT, the EPA-funded green computer standard released in July. More than 300 computers are now registered. The manufacturers are (links lead to EPEAT profiles): Apple, CTL, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, NEC Display Solutions, Northern Micro, Panasonic, and Sony. Many of these manufacturers also made Greenpeace’s report ... Read more »

Corning Cuts Lighting Costs 40%

High-efficiency fluorescent lamps chosen by Corning Inc. for its Kennebunk, Maine factory combined with other improvements, have cut electricity use for lighting by roughly 40 percent, Maine Today reports. The Corning plant, which employees 300 workers, represents one of the largest project aided by Efficiency Maine, which offers up to $50,000 a ... Read more »

Duke’s Anderson: Tax Carbon Emissions

Taxing carbon emissions will produce immediate, economywide gains in energy efficiency and new, carbon-free energy production, Duke Energy Chairman Paul Anderson said last week at a Sierra Club workshop in San Francisco on what to do about global warming. “All the other approaches will take decades,” Anderson said, Inside Bay Area reports. “A ... Read more »

Colorado Democrats Plan Renewable Energy Bills

Colorado, with Democrats in control of the governor’s office as well as the state Senate and House, has a good chance of signing a dozen or so renewable energy bills – three times the number introduced last year – into law, Rocky Mountain News reports. According to the article, the following ... Read more »

GM Reports, Again, that Energy Use is Down

General Motors is once again pointing out that it has cut its energy use by 25 percent and added solar and landfill gas as energy sources at its North American facilities over the past five years, Associated Press reports (via the Houston Chronicle). According to our story, and a press release, ... Read more »


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