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Finding Energy Efficient Buildings Has Become Even Easier

Finding energy efficient schools, supermarkets, offices, and other facilities throughout the country has become even easier for Americans interested in being green.

12 Feb 2008

IBM Builds New Energy Efficient Green Data Center with Leading Pharmaceutical Ccompany

IBM and Kalbe today announced a collaborative effort to build a new energy efficient "green data center" and undergo a major data center consolidation project, in order to meet Kalbe's technology requirements of its expanding business, while simultaneously saving energy.

12 Feb 2008

Company Launches Initiative to Address Energy Conservation and Carbon Emissions

WNS (Holdings) Limited, a leading provider of business process outsourcing (BPO) services, today announced the launch of its Green Lean Sigma Program, a company-wide initiative to address energy conservation and reduction in impact of carbon emission. The program marks WNS’ first step towards realising its vision to be a carbon-neutral company.

12 Feb 2008

Efficient Lighting Expected to Reduce Energy Use in Maintenance Hangar

Lime Energy announced today the completion of the first phase of an energy efficiency retrofit of a major airline's maintenance hangar at San Francisco International Airport.

11 Feb 2008

Company to Retire Older Coal-Fired Power Plants

Interstate Power and Light Company (IPL), a subsidiary of Alliant Energy Corporation, proposed today to permanently reduce its generating fleet's greenhouse gas emissions by retiring coal-fired generating units and switching the fuel source of other coal-fired units to natural gas when its proposed Sutherland Generating Station Unit 4 becomes operable in 2013.

9 Feb 2008

Developing Technology Making Wind Power as Reliable as Conventional Power

Massachusetts-based wind energy company General Compression and its compressor technology partner Mechanology are using Ricardo's automotive engineering and development expertise to develop technology which aims to make wind power as reliable as conventional power.

8 Feb 2008

IPL Begins Construction on 200 Megawatt Wind Power Farm

Interstate Power and Light Company (IPL), a subsidiary of Alliant Energy Corporation received a written decision today from the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) regarding its request for ratemaking principles pertaining to the company's proposed construction of up to 200 megawatts of wind power farms in Iowa.

8 Feb 2008

Constellation Energy Signed Agreement to Improve Energy Efficiency

Constellation Energy today announced it has signed an agreement with the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) to jointly pursue opportunities to lower harmful emissions and improve energy efficiency.

8 Feb 2008

Producing Biofuel Using Molecular Sieve is More Energy Efficient

A new type of membrane, developed by scientists of the University of Twente in The Netherlands, can stand high temperatures for a long period of time. This ‘molecular sieve’ is capable of removing water out of e.g. solvents and biofuels.

7 Feb 2008

Technology to Help Solve Nation's Energy Challenges

A new study has found that technology leads to a dramatic increase in energy efficiency and is actually a net saver of energy by a 10:1 ratio across the economy. The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) found a direct correlation between gains in energy productivity and investments in information and communications technology (ICT).

7 Feb 2008