STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Nestle Waters North America today announces Michael Washburn has joined the company as director of sustainability. In his new role, Washburn will lead Nestle Waters' efforts to increase recycling rates in the United States; innovate in energy use and building design across its facilities; advocate for constructive water policies; and engage stakeholders around company sustainability efforts.
Mayors' meeting REC'd Constellation Energy Group of Baltimore announced it is donating renewable energy certificates to match 100 percent of the estimated energy use associated with the U.S. Conference of Mayors' 79th Annual Meeting in Baltimore. The RECs come from wind energy facilities in the United States. The RECs will match the energy use associated with hotel rooms and facilities, as well as several offsite locations where conference events are scheduled during the four-day meeting, which ends Tuesday. Constellation Energy is a corporate sponsor of the conference, and Mayo A. Shattuck III, the company's chairman, president and chief executive officer, is chairman of the host committee for the event.
THE Obama administration, having redesigned the auto industry and health care to its liking, intends in July to extend its control to the production and use of energy in the United States. Many members of Congress, including many in his own party, have balked at imposing sweeping and costly energy legislation on a damaged American economy.
The Federal Power Act requires hydropower licensees to recompense the United States for the use, occupancy, and enjoyment of its lands. The Commission assesses annual charges for the use of Federal lands through Part 11 of its regulations. The Commission is proposing to revise the methodology used to compute these annual charges. Under the proposed rule, the Commission would create a fee schedule based on the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) methodology for calculating rental rates for linear rights of way. This methodology includes a land value per acre, an encumbrance factor, a rate of return, and an annual adjustment factor. The fee schedule would include all adjustments described in the BLM rule adopting this methodology, except the allocation of county land values into zones....
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Aug. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- National solar powerhouse Real Goods Solar recently introduced new financing and purchasing options available to homeowners throughout California and Colorado that offer all of the benefits of solar power typically with no upfront investment. The new Real Goods Solar PowerSavings(TM) Plan provides flexibility that makes going solar easier and more affordable then ever before. Unlike other power purchase programs currently on the market, it gives homeowners an affordable option to own the system after six years. A typical homeowner can now add solar to their home for no money down and pay less monthly than their current electric bill. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (USEIA), while solar energy use is on the rise in...
... the first solar photovoltaic panels in the United States in 1978. With 15 offices in California, Col...
It's the Science Barge, a two-year project of the nonprofit New York Sun Works to demonstrate that soil-short urban communities can grow large quantities of vegetables in relatively small rooftop spaces with a resourceful mix of greenhouse hydroponics, renewable energy systems such as solar photovoltaic panels and wind turbines and recycled waste building heat and rain water. Building-integrated agriculture, its advocates at New York Sun Works point out, reduces both the distance of pollution-producing transport from grower to consumer and the environmental impact of buildings, which in the United States account for 39 percent of total energy use, 12 percent of water consumption and 38 percent of carbon dioxide emissions.
WASHINGTON - Forget the arguments over whether global warming is real. Many American businesses and researchers are well past all that and are scrambling to find ways to make money in a world that must slash its use of fossil fuels. Energy entrepreneurs have sparked an energy revolution that's just starting in the United States but already producing new ideas, more jobs and growing exports.
Portland-based Cascade Energy Inc. today announced that it has entered into a energy efficiency partnership to oversee the energy management of more than 100 cold-storage warehouses throughout the country. Now, if I know my Predator 2, that's no easy task. Cascade Energy has entered into a three-year strategic partnership with Americold to cut energy use and related costs of Americold's 132 cold storage in the United States. Cascade Energy will provide Americold with energy monitoring and utility payment analysis services as well as the potential to work with Cascade on taking advantage of incentive programs, facility tune-ups and other related services.
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