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Unilever Becomes Canada’s Biggest Commercial Renewables Purchaser, under Bullfrog Deal

April 5, 2011April 5, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Unilever Canada will become the single largest commercial purchaser of renewable power in that country through a 59,000 MWh a year deal with Bullfrog Power, the two companies announced today. The agreement between Bullfrog and the manufacturer of brands including Ben & Jerry’s, Axe, Skippy, Q-Tips and Knorr means that ... Read more »

Ikea CO2 Rises 30% as Chain Shifts to On-Site Renewables

March 31, 2011April 1, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Ikea’s CO2 emissions from its buildings have increased relative to sales, despite the chain’s efforts to increase on-site renewable power generation. The company’s 2010 Sustainability Report (pdf) says that C02 emissions increased by 30 percent between 2009 and 2010, from 26.4 to 34.3 kg per cubic meter of products sold ... Read more »

California Assembly Approves 33% Renewable Mandate

March 30, 2011March 30, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

California legislators yesterday approved a mandate for 33 percent of the state’s electricity to come from renewable sources by 2020. The California Assembly raised the state’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS), voting 59-19 in favor of Senate Bill 1X 2, which the state Senate approved 26-11 in February. Governor Jerry Brown ... Read more »

Paper By-Products Fire Sappi Mill, Help Feed Cows

March 29, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Sappi Fine Paper is using black liquor, a residue from the pulping process, to generate energy equivalent to 100,000 barrels of fuel oil. The company’s North American operations have instituted a $36 million capital improvement project to upgrade evaporators and a recovery boiler at its Somerset Mill in Skowhegan, Maine. ... Read more »

SAP Triples Renewables, Reports Cuts in GHG and Energy

March 25, 2011March 25, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

SAP reduced its greenhouse gas emissions, total energy consumption and data center energy per employee in 2010, while tripling the percentage of its energy that comes from renewables, according to the company’s 2010 Sustainability Report. Last year the software vendor raised the proportion of its energy derived from renewable sources ... Read more »

JLL Guide Catalogs Global Environmental Building Regulations

March 18, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Jones Lang LaSalle has published a guide to energy, sustainability and climate regulations affecting building owners and managers around the world. The latest edition of Global Sustainability Perspective details legislation and incentives related to renewable energy, environmental reporting, carbon emissions reductions and other issues. The report was developed by experts ... Read more »

Green Building, Renewable Energy Directories Launched

March 8, 2011March 8, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) have launched a global library of building energy rating policies. BuildingRating.org aims to create a standard way of comparing the energy performance of buildings, by providing a searchable library of rating and disclosure information. Users of the website ... Read more »

PepsiCo UK Aims to Ditch Fossil Fuels by 2023

January 18, 2011January 18, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

PepsiCo’s operations in the British isles plan to be fossil fuel- free by 2023, the company has announced. PepsiCo UK and Ireland’s second environmental sustainability report says the company will make sure all energy for its manufacturing and distribution in the two countries is from renewable sources within the next ... Read more »

UK to Ease Rules for On-Site Renewable Energy Installations

November 18, 2009 by Gina Roos

Aimed at helping cut carbon emissions, the UK has proposed new planning rules that will allow home owners, offices, schools, stadiums and railway stations to install solar panels without planning permissions, reports the Telegraph. Councils will also be able to install charging stations for electric cars in public parking lots ... Read more »

Texas Electricity Users May Pay for Utilities’ Bypassing Stimulus Funds

October 2, 2009October 21, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Purchasers of renewable energy in Texas may pay a higher rate after the companies building a $5 billion renewable energy transmission network in the state decided to bypass federal stimulus funding for the project. Utilities and companies building the network say that the stimulus funds came with strings attached that ... Read more »

Climate-related Business Could Top $2 Trillion by 2020

September 22, 2009October 20, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Global revenues from energy efficiency, renewables and other climate-related sectors could top $2 trillion by 2020, up from $530 billion last year, according to HSBC Global Research. The $530 billion last year was the result of 75 percent growth over 2007, according to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. ... Read more »

Australia Sets Sights on 20% Renewable Energy by 2020

August 19, 2009 by Paul Nastu

While parties could not agree on Australian legislation to both adopt renewables and cut carbon emissions, there at least is consensus on the notion of becoming more reliant on renewables. Australia, which is heavily reliant on coal, will aim for 20 percent of its energy needs to come from renewables ... Read more »

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