WASHINGTON – The U.S. Energy Department this week announced that Dr. Josh Silverman, Director of the Office of Sustainability Support, has been selected as a finalist for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal from the Partnership for Public Service. Silverman was selected for his dedication to reducing the Department’s greenhouse gas emissions. Silverman [...]
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (January 2, 2013): EDF Renewable Energy, formerly enXco, announced today that it completed financing on the 143 MWp Catalina Solar project in California’s Mojave Desert. Majority interest in the project was acquired by a group of investors comprising GE (NYSE: GE) unit GE Energy Financial Services, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a wholly [...]
CHANGZHOU, China, Oct. 25, 2012. Trina Solar Limited, a leading integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic (PV) products, today announced that it has obtained Carbon Footprint Verification (the “Verification”) for the Company’s solar PV modules from the British Standards Institution (BSI), a leading international standards and certification body. In accordance with PAS 2050:2011 and ISO 14067 [...]
Analysis of projects in different countries suggests that the world’s first carbon capture and storage unit will start operation in the US in 2013 London, New York and Tokyo. The top four places in the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Race To First, a semi-annual ranking of the world’s most advanced large-scale demonstration carbon capture and [...]
WORTON, Md., July 10, 2012.SolarThermalMagazine.com Today, the Kent County Commissioners, the Superintendent of the Kent County Board of Education, other elected officials and community stakeholders dedicated the largest aggregate, net-metered solar array on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The Worton solar array, installed by Standard Solar, Inc. and owned and operated by Washington Gas Energy Services, Inc. [...]
In response to the new Energy Information Administration (EIA) “Annual Energy Outlook†(AEO) released today, Kyle Ash, Greenpeace Climate Campaigner made the following statement: Once again the EIA projections are encouraging to companies like Peabody and Duke Energy, who stand to make millions from a federal thumbs up to a rosy coal market. Contrary to [...]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California. Cogenra Solar, a provider of distributed solar cogeneration systems today announced its first dairy solar cogeneration system at the Clover Stornetta Farms Dairy Processing Plant in Petaluma, CA. The solar cogeneration system is the company’s latest renewable energy initiative and will not only reduce Clover’s greenhouse gas emissions, but will also result [...]
HILLSBORO, Oregon. ClearEdge Power, a manufacturer of scalable, continuous onsite power systems, today announced that Roger’s Gardens, a destination home and garden store in California’s Orange County, has deployed a ClearEdge fuel cell system to contribute to its energy efficiency and sustainability goals. By leveraging a 15-kW ClearEdge system, Roger’s Gardens will be able to [...]
To help accelerate the commercialization of new technology that uses the sun’s energy rather than the electric grid or natural gas to power air-conditioning systems while co-producing renewable electricity, Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) has launched a multi-year demonstration of an advanced concentrated solar cogeneration system to benefit businesses and the region.
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Linde AG / Linde refuels fuel-cell cars at HANNOVER MESSE trade show with TUeV- certified green hydrogen. The technology group The Linde Group has reached another milestone in its journey to produce hydrogen from sustainable sources. The hydrogen generated from biodiesel by-products at the company’s pilot plant in Leuna, Germany, was certified by TUeV SUeD, [...]
For the third consecutive year, GDF SUEZ Energy Resources NA will supply renewable energy certificates (RECs) to the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) for the 2012 Globalcon Conference & Expo. The RECs, which will be Green-e® Energy Certified, are targeted to match the electricity consumed during the two-day expo, which is being held March 7-8 [...]
Energy Inspectors earns sixth consecutive EPA award for protecting the environment through energy efficiency The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded Energy Inspectors Corporation a 2012 ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award in recognition of its continued leadership in protecting our environment through energy efficiency. Energy Inspectors’ accomplishments will be recognized at an awards ceremony [...]
WASHINGTON. For the first time, comprehensive greenhouse gas (GHG) data reported directly from large facilities and suppliers across the country are now easily accessible to the public through EPA’s GHG Reporting Program. The 2010 GHG data released today includes public information from facilities in nine industry groups that directly emit large quantities of GHGs, as [...]