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Standards & Compliance Briefing: CHAdeMO Seeks EU Inclusion; Laundry Products, Air Filters

The CHAdeMO Association said it is disappointed that its EV charging standard has been left out of specs issued by the European Commission in its Clean Power for Transport package, AutoBlogGreen reports. The association said that there are more than 20,000 CHAdeMO-equipped vehicles on the road in Europe, and requested the ... Read more »

Lighting Roundup: GE Streetlighting; Philips Digital-Control LEDs; Honeywell LEDs in China; Acuity LEDs

The Borough of Tarentum in Western Pennsylvania is converting 100 percent of its street lighting to GE’s new Evolve LED Scalable Cobrahead fixtures with dimmable photocells. The retrofit of 430 streetlights (pictured) will save Tarentum approximately 66 percent in annual lighting energy and maintenance costs, equaling about $40,000 based on ... Read more »

Lighting Roundup: Healthcare Trust of America, Green Ballast, AEG Power Solutions, Philips, Armstrong Ceilings, The Helmsley Building

Healthcare Trust of America, a real estate investment trust with more than 12.5 million square feet of leasable space, has completed a lighting retrofit using Green Ballast’s daylight harvesting fluorescent light ballasts for a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical tenant in Lenox Office Park in Memphis, Tenn. Green Ballast’s ballast adjusts power ... Read more »

NREL, Portland State Engineers Take Home ASHRAE Technology Awards

The engineers who designed the net-zero energy NREL Research Support Facility in Golden, Colo. and a Washington fire station that uses 70 percent less energy compared to other area fire stations are among the winners of the 2013 American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Technology Awards. The ... Read more »

Contract Wins: Andritz, Poet-DSM Biofuels, Microgrid Solar, Eaton

Andritz, through its US subsidiary Andritz Inc., has received an order to supply its advanced continuous biomass pre-treatment technology for the Poet-DSM Advanced Biofuels commercial-scale biofuel facility, Project Liberty, being built in Emmetsburg, Iowa and scheduled for completion in Q4 2013. The facility will produce 20 million gallons per year ... Read more »

Lowe’s, Kohler, KB Home Win EPA Water Awards

Lowe’s helped its customers save about 4 billion gallons of water last year, and Kohler introduced 40 new water-efficient toilet models to the North American market in 2011, earning both companies EPA awards. Colorado Springs Utilities, American Standard Brands and KB Home also received 2012 WaterSense partners of the year ... Read more »

Lighting Science Group and National Park Service Open ‘First of Its Kind’ Net-Zero Visitor Center

LED company Lighting Science Group and the National Park Service have opened a net-zero visitor center (pictured) in Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, the first of its kind in the nearly 400 parks that make up the national parks system. Named for the congressman who introduced legislation to create ... Read more »

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