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ExxonMobil Says New Tire Material Increases Fuel Efficiency
ExxonMobil Chemical announced the completion of a manufacturing facility at its existing site in Pensacola, Fla. The facility will provide new capacity for the production of a new tire material techno...
Cray Unveils Energy Efficient Cooling Tech
Cray Inc. today unveiled a liquid cooling technology that will allow computers to operate at speeds of multiple petaflops (thousands of trillions of calculations per second), while delivering energy s...
Uptime CEO: Low PUE Numbers ‘Scientifically Meaningless’
The Power Utilization Effectiveness metric can potentially be useful for determining the gross performance of data center electrical and mechanical systems. However, Kenneth Brill, executive director ...
Resort Expects to Make $161,000 From Its Wind Turbines
Jiminy Peak resort announced its one-year anniversary of the connection of its new 1.5 megawatt GE wind turbine to the grid, Daily Tech reports. The turbines were installed last year and are touted as...
Energy High Priority Budget Item
Consumers and companies alike are feeling the squeeze from rising energy prices, which are increasing 15 percent per year on average while wholesale natural-gas prices have tripled over the past few y...
GM Powertrain Plant Adds Solar
A 1.2 megawatt solar power installation will be added to the roof of General Motor’s transmission assembly plant in White Marsh, Md. The company recently announced that it is adding what it clai...
Neenah Paper To Use Biomass At Whiting Mill
Construction is underway at Neenah Paper’s largest mill to build a biomass fuel system that will convert wood and fiber waste into steam energy, CSR Wire reports. As part of “The Neenah Green:...
Blues Plans Incorporate Green Buildings & Policies
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina and Highmark have plans to employ more environmentally friendly building practices and to achieve LEED certification, ...
Merck Plans 7-Acre Solar Power System
Merck & Co., recently announced that its world headquarters in Whitehouse Station, N. J., will have the largest ground-mounted solar power tracking system in the eastern half of the U.S. The 1.6-m...
Performance Management Systems Improve Energy Efficiency at Kodak
As new environmental regulations impose numerous constraints on companies and significant implications for their financial health, Martin Jetté of OSIsoft Canada writes in Plant Engineering that its ...
Windows Don’t Have To Be Weak Link In Facility Energy Management
Bruce Lang, VP of marketing & business development at Southwall Technologies Inc., writes in FacilityManagement.com that window glass has been the weak link in conservation performance, with aroun...
IBM Launches Eco Data Center in Second Life
Visitors who want to check out IBM’s latest eco-data center will have to do so as an avatar in Linden Lab’s Second Life, where the facility “exists,” InformationWeek reports. The compa...
Solar System Completed at Universal Forest Products
Universal Forest Products recently announced that the design and installation of a 500 kilowatt DC solar electric system by Pacific Power Management has been completed. The $4.4 million project in Tho...
Retailers Eye Sun for Energy Savings
Wal-Mart Stores, Kohl’s, Safeway and Macy’s have already installed solar panels on roofs of their retail stores, generating electricity on a large scale. Although fewer than 10 percent of ...
North Face Announces more Green Initiatives
The North Face is celebrating its 40th anniversary by celebrating mother nature, and is coming out with a series of new green initiatives. The company has announced it will offset 100 percent of all N...
Applied Materials Gets 5-Year Contract From Green Energy Technology
Applied Materials announced this week that it has signed a five-year service contract with Green Energy Technology to support the company’s Applied SunFab Thin Film Line for solar module manufac...
Plant Powered by Chicken Manure
At Beijing Deqingyuan Chicken Farm Waste Utilization plant, three million chickens are doing their part to help their farm be sustainable– they are powering and heating the farm via the 220 tons...
Aon Latest Insurer To Launch Green Building Program
Aon launched the Aon Green Building Property Program this week. As an enhancement to the company’s Global Property Policy, the new program will cover both environmentally certified and non-certi...
Beijing Cleans Up Air by Moving Factories Elsewhere
When Beijing won the privilege of hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, seven years ago, the Chinese capital promised to improve its environmental issues, among those was the promise of eliminating hundreds...
Crystal Rock’s Solar System Up and Running
Crystal Rock, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vermont Pure Holdings, announced this week that the company’s 300kW solar photovoltaic system is now operational and generating electricity. The instal...
Dell Reaches Carbon Neutral Goal 5 Months Ahead Of Plans
Dell Computer announced this week that it reached its goal of becoming “carbon neutral” five months ahead of schedule. The company also reported that its making additional investments in w...
DOE Assessments Help 3 Plants Save Over $1.5 Million Combined
The Department of Energy released three new case studies of manufacturing plants participating in its Save Energy Now initiative, which makes recommendations on potential savings in cost and energy us...
Johnson Controls Helps Build ‘Green Olympics,’ Wins Big Fed Contracts
Johnson Controls was awarded many Olympics related contracts in China and since then has been helping the nation realize a “Green Olympics” dream by outfitting 18 Olympic stadiums and supp...
Sacred Heart Medical Center Designed with Green in Mind
The new Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Oregon is touting itself as one of the nation’s greenest hospitals. The facility incorporates energy efficiency features and reduces the amoun...
North Face Plans Solar Energy System
The North Face is planning a 1MW solar electricity system at its West Coast distribution center located in Visalia, California. EI Solutions will design, build and install the system by...
Will U.S. Hotels Make The Switch To Really Green Lodgings?
In Europe, many hotel room keys double as the master switch, turning power to the room on and off. The New York Times writes that it’s almost never seen in the U.S. and wonders if Americans are ...
Small Steps to Make Data Centers Green And Cost Effective
High energy prices are making the cost of running data centers in many companies the second-largest expense after people. With the cost of powering data centers worldwide to possibly grow from $18.5 b...
Kohl’s Earns Energy Star Label at 50 Stores
Kohl’s announced it has earned the Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star label at seven stores in Colorado, 14 in Illinois, eight in Minnesota, 12 in New York, four in Utah, and fi...
IBM Plans to Build Energy Efficient, Adaptive Data Center
IBM announced plans to build a $360 million data center by renovating an existing building at its facility in Research Triangle Park. The new data center will be built with IBM’s New Enterprise ...
Lotus To Raise Wind Turbines At Factory
Ecotricity recently received approval to build three wind turbines at Lotus’s car factory in Hethel, England. The turbines will be built inside the test track at Lotus’s factory, with cons...