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New Orleans Will Explore ‘Smart City’ Approach To Energy

February 2, 2018April 6, 2022 by Alyssa Danigelis

The New Orleans City Council’s Utility, Cable, Telecommunications, and Technology Committee unanimously passed a resolution this week to explore a “smart city” approach that could include grid modernization and energy-efficient buildings. Smart cities have taken off in recent years around the world, defined by their highly integrated approach to technology. ... Read more »

Sloan Plumbing Products Help School Save Water

March 10, 2015March 9, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Sloan has helped a New Orleans high school make its restrooms more water and energy efficient by donating plumbing products. Renovating the restrooms at Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans consisted of structural changes as well as cosmetic improvements. Because the building is a completely cement structure, it didn’t ... Read more »

WELL Building Standard Launched

October 21, 2014October 20, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The International WELL Building Institute has launched the WELL Building Standard Version 1.0, which focuses on enhancing people’s health and well-being through the built environment, at the inaugural WELL Building Symposium in New Orleans. Following a two-year pilot program and a formal Peer Review process, the standard is now publicly ... Read more »

Waste Management Cashes in on Fracking Boom

August 22, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Waste Management — and other companies outside the oil and gas industry — are benefiting from the US fracking boom. The waste disposal and recycling company has acquired Summit Energy Services and Liquid Logistics, two North Dakota energy services companies. The purchases give Waste Management access to new markets in ... Read more »

Plans To Boost Grid Hampered By Fragmented Ownership

July 16, 2013April 1, 2022 by Paul Nastu

President Obama’s plans for climate change action called for strengthening the power grid, but with 500 owners and individual states and regions rolling out plans independent from each other, that’s easier said than done, reports the New York Times. It says hundreds of Department of Energy engineers have spent the ... Read more »

ACEEE Highlights Louisiana’s Untapped Energy Efficiency Potential

June 3, 2013September 1, 2022 by Leon Walker

Energy efficiency is still largely an untapped energy resource that could save Louisianans’ money on their utility bills, create local jobs, and increases the competitiveness of the state’s businesses, according to research by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. A set of new or expanded energy efficiency policies and programs ... Read more »

Shell Greenlights World’s Deepest Production Facility

May 9, 2013May 9, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Royal Dutch Shell has finalized plans for its Gulf of Mexico oil and gas project, expected to be the world’s deepest production facility, the company announced yesterday. Shell’s ultra-deepwater oil and gas project will be located about 200 miles southwest of New Orleans in the Stones field, which is estimated ... Read more »

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