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LED Lighting Retrofit to Save Hawaii Hospitals $1.2M

August 10, 2010 by Gina Roos

Hawai’i Pacific Health (HPH), comprised of four nonprofit hospitals and 44 outpatient clinics and service sites, expects to save more than $1.2 million thanks to a LED lighting retrofit across its facilities. The switch to LED lighting at its four hospital facilities also will help reduce HPH’s carbon emissions by ... Read more »

GE Energy Treasure Hunt Yields $2.1M Energy Savings at NY Hospital

July 30, 2010July 30, 2010 by Gina Roos

GE is collaborating with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to bring the company’s internal Treasure Hunt program, aimed at reducing energy waste, to cities, universities, businesses, and other organizations. The program has helped GE reduce its own energy use by making improvements to all sources of energy waste including electricity, ... Read more »

Roundup – Porsche, UL Environment, EPA

July 29, 2010July 29, 2010 by Gina Roos

US Law Requires Conflict Minerals Disclosure from Electronics Manufacturers Triple Pundit Greening One of the World’s Greenest Places: Yellowstone National Park Fast Company UL Environment to Develop Sustainability Standards for Handheld Consumer Electronic Products PR Newswire Report Your Emissions but Beware the ‘Reality Bomb’ Ecometrica Porsche Green-Lights the 918 Spyder ... Read more »

High-Rise Building Lighting Retrofit Saves $160,000 Annually

July 22, 2010July 22, 2010 by Gina Roos

Westwood Gateway Towers in Los Angeles is saving more than $160,000 annually, or 35 percent per year, in energy costs, thanks to a retrofit of its lighting systems. The 820,00-sq.-ft. high rise building, owned by Irvine Company, also is Energy Star labeled. ReGreen, which installed Westwood Gateway’s new system, says ... Read more »

Georgia Tech Energy Assessments to Save Carpet Manufacturer $2M Annually

June 16, 2010 by Gina Roos

Thanks to on-site plant visits by Georgia Tech students to evaluate energy-saving opportunities at Beaulieu of America, the carpet manufacturer discovered it could reduce its utility use by almost 15 percent with an estimated annual savings of $2 million, reports Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute. The site visits addressed energy ... Read more »

PGS Data Center Delivers Cost Savings of Nearly $1M

June 15, 2010 by Gina Roos

Petroleum Geo-Services’ (PGS) new data center in Weybridge, Surrey, UK, has achieved a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.17, which rivals some of the best results in the industry including Google, reports Greenbang. Legacy data center cooling systems average a PUE of 2.25, according to the Uptime Institute. The data ... Read more »

Burger King Restaurant Cuts Energy Costs by 45%

June 15, 2010January 9, 2018 by Gina Roos

Burger King has unveiled a new energy-efficient restaurant located in Germany that uses state-of-the-art technologies and renewable energy to power one-third of the restaurant’s energy requirements, reducing energy costs by 45 percent and CO2 emissions by more than 1201 metric tons annually. The free-standing restaurant features more than 720 photovoltaic ... Read more »

Novel Energy-Saving Ideas for Data Centers

June 2, 2010 by Gina Roos

A “follow the moon” philosophy for data centers aimed at shifting workloads to locations where electricity costs are the lowest at any given time is one energy-saving idea presented by Harkeeret Singh, global head of energy and sustainable technology for Thompson Reuters, according to Heather Clancy, in a blog for ... Read more »

Xcel Energy on Track to Cut CO2 Emissions 15% by 2020

May 28, 2010 by Gina Roos

Xcel Energy has exceeded its 2009 goal to achieve energy savings of 450 GWh for all operating companies, reducing energy consumption by 573 GWh thanks to demand side management programs, according to the company’s 2009 corporate responsibility report. In 2009, Xcel reduced electricity consumption in its corporate facilities by nearly ... Read more »

Hospitals Can Cut Energy Use 60% by Redesigning their Energy Systems

May 14, 2010September 12, 2018 by Gina Roos

Hospitals, which account for four percent of all energy consumed in the U.S., can achieve a 60 percent reduction in energy utility use by redesigning the way they use energy, which will translate into savings of about $730,000 annually for a newly constructed, code-compliant hospital, according to a study released ... Read more »

EPA Helps States, Utilities Reap Greater Energy Savings

May 6, 2010May 6, 2010 by Gina Roos

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a new pilot program to further improve energy efficiency in commercial buildings across several states and utilities. The goal of the Building Performance with Energy Star program is to help utilities and state energy-efficiency programs achieve greater energy savings and reduce greenhouse ... Read more »

Con Edison ‘Cool’ Roofs Reduce Energy Costs

May 5, 2010 by Gina Roos

Con Edison’s green and white roofs atop of its training and conference center in Long Island City help prevent energy losses, provide other environmental benefits, and reduce heating and cooling costs, compared to traditional dark roofs, according to research from Columbia University. A key finding of the study (PDF) shows ... Read more »

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