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US Foods to Go 85% Solar in NYC Area; Cox Installs Fuel Cells

February 15, 2012February 15, 2012 by Leon Walker

US Foods has announced that nearly 85 percent of its New York City area division’s annual energy will come from solar power by July 2012. The installation of rooftop solar panels at the warehouse in Perth-Amboy, N.J., is currently underway. The solar installation is the fourth at a US Foods ... Read more »

O2 Sustainability Goals: 100% Renewables, an End to Bundled Chargers

February 7, 2012February 7, 2012 by Tamar Wilner

O2 will use 100 percent renewable energy and will no longer offer chargers free with mobile phone purchases, as part of a three-year sustainability plan launched today. The Think Big Blueprint will deliver up to 4 million tons of carbon savings through three core objectives and 40 individual commitments, according ... Read more »

Walmart Rockets from 15th to Third in EPA Green Power Rankings

February 1, 2012February 3, 2012 by Tamar Wilner

Walmart has shot to third place on the EPA’s rankings of the country’s top green power purchasers, from 15th place just last quarter. The Green Power Partnership ranking, for the retailer’s Texas and California facilities alone, pushes Whole Foods down to fourth place. According to the EPA’s data, Walmart’s facilities ... Read more »

BP Predicts Small Future Role for Renewables

January 19, 2012January 20, 2012 by Leon Walker

Energy production by renewable sources will roughly quadruple by 2030, but the use of such energy will still only account for fraction of energy consumption, according to a report by BP. BP Energy Outlook 2030 says that by 2030 global energy production from renewable sources will rise to the equivalent ... Read more »

Verso Completes 28 MW Biomass Project

January 11, 2012 by Leon Walker

Verso Paper Corp. has completed a $45 million renewable energy project at its pulp and paper mill in Quinnesec, Mich. The project includes design upgrades to the mill’s existing combination biomass boiler, a new biomass handling system and a new turbine generator. The improvements delivered 28 MW of additional green ... Read more »

SC Johnson Details Scope 3 Emissions, Hits Renewables Goal

December 29, 2011March 26, 2012 by Tamar Wilner

The greatest part of SC Johnson’s Scope 3 emissions, 38 percent, comes from customer use of its products, according to the company’s 2011 annual public report. The maker of Glade, Off!, Pledge, Raid and Ziploc brand products said that of its 2009 Scope 3 emissions, 26 percent occurred from “cradle ... Read more »

DOE Cuts Scope 1 and 2 GHGs 13% in Two Years

November 23, 2011November 23, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

The Department of Energy reduced its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent from its FY 2008 baseline of 4.6 million mTCO2e, to 4 mT in FY 2010, putting it on course to beat its target of a 28 percent reduction by 2020, according to the DOE’s ... Read more »

Renewables Briefing: Bernard Matthews, China Solar Leap, Biggest Wind-Hydro Plant

November 14, 2011November 14, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Turkey company Bernard Matthews is planning a £4m ($6.4) anaerobic digester at its Holton factory in Suffolk, U.K., in a move that the company said would provide 13 percent of the site’s electricity needs, according to the BBC. The digester will use about 28,000 tons of liquid waste a year, ... Read more »

Renewables to Grow Fastest in Next 25 Years – But Carbon Keeps Soaring

September 20, 2011September 20, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Renewable power will be the fastest-growing energy source over the next 25 years, but fossil fuels will remain the dominant energy source as carbon emissions rise by 43 percent, according to the reference case of the Energy Information Administration’s annual global projections. The International Energy Outlook 2011 (IEO2011) reference case, ... Read more »

Most Soft Drink Makers Lack Recycling Goals

September 13, 2011September 14, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Only three out of eight major soft drink companies have recycling goals, according to a study by Green Research. PepsiCo, The Coca-Cola Company, and Nestlé Waters North America all have recycling goals, according to Benchmarking Sustainability Goals: Non-Alcoholic Beverages. But Coca-Cola Amatil, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Coca-Cola HBC, Dr. Pepper-Snapple Group and ... Read more »

The Energy Storage Hand Gets More Interesting

August 25, 2011August 29, 2011 by Christine Hertzog

The cards dealt to the energy storage industry are looking better now than in the past. Here are three of them, all played because of the growing presence of Smart Grid technologies that enable solutions and policies that encourage energy storage markets. There’s also a wild card that could have ... Read more »

Industrial Distributed Power Could Grow by 85% in Five Years

August 17, 2011August 17, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

The total capacity of industrial distributed generation is set to grow by at least 46 percent between 2011 and 2016, according to a report by Pike Research. The report, Industrial Distributed Generation, says that total IDG capacity will rise from 91 to 133 GW under a “slow growth” forecast scenario. ... Read more »

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