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W San Francisco’s Building Receives LEED Certification

W San Francisco hotel has earned Silver LEED certification for one of its existing buildings. The hotel is known for its green practices and sustainability efforts.

9 Apr 2010

Vanguard Assists Pegasus Products to Produce More Electricity

A rooftop solar system constructed by Vanguard Energy Partners for Pegasus Products has assisted the latter obtain "net-zero electric" status. Vanguard Energy is a large-scale solar electric systems design and installation provider.

9 Apr 2010

Sunwheel Energy Partners and Borrego Solar Systems Collaborate to Bring Solar Energy to Southern California

Borrego Solar Systems, Inc and renewable energy company Sunwheel Energy Partners have joined together to provide solar energy of over 645 kW to five housing units across Southern California.

9 Apr 2010

OPIC Loans for a ContourGlobal Project on Clean Energy

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)’s Board of Directors has approved a loan of around $250 million for supporting an energy-efficiency project of ContourGlobal Solutions Holdings Ltd.

9 Apr 2010

Global Green Consulting Group Launches Sustainability Managed Services to Benefit Sustainability Programs

Business performance and sustainability strategy solutions provider Global Green Consulting Group, Inc. has introduced its Sustainability Managed Services solution, which enables customers to realize the advantages of a successfully managed, planned and executed sustainability program.

9 Apr 2010

Comcast's New Building Receives LEED Platinum

The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification to the new zero-carbon Sonoma County Operations Center of Comcast Corporation.

9 Apr 2010

OG+E Energizes its Windspeed Transmission Line in Oklahoma State

Regulated electric utility OGE Energy Corp. (OG&E) has rejuvenated its new Windspeed transmission line between Oklahoma City and Woodward, thereby paving the way for the production of wind power in northwestern Oklahoma.

9 Apr 2010

New Test to Demonstrate How Harmful Air Pollutants Really Are

How severely do smog, diesel exhaust and secondhand smoke damage the lungs? What do pollen or nanoparticles trigger when they infiltrate the human body through inhaling? At this year's BIO Convention in Chicago from May 3 to 6, Fraunhofer researchers will present a new test system that can be used to investigate these questions.

9 Apr 2010

AMSC Receive Another Order for Wind Turbine Electrical Control Systems

American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC), a global power technologies company, announced today that it has received an initial order for full wind turbine electrical control systems worth more than US$20 million from Ghodawat Energy Pvt. Ltd. (GEPL). Under the terms of the contract, AMSC will begin shipping the electrical control systems to Ghodawat in the middle of calendar 2010 and will complete all shipments by the end of calendar 2013 at the latest. Ghodawat is the sixth customer to place a volume production order for wind turbine power electronic components or systems with AMSC over the past 12 months.

9 Apr 2010

Berkeley Lab Study Finds Energy Efficiency Workforce Training Needs to Ramp Up to Meet Coming Demand

A new study by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) examines the workforce needs of the energy efficiency services sector, and finds that the speed with which employment will grow will depend in part on how effectively the nation deploys training and education programs for the energy efficiency workforce.

8 Apr 2010

Producing Propylene Oxide in a More Environmentally Friendly Manner

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have identified a new class of silver-based catalysts for the production of the industrially useful chemical propylene oxide that is both environmentally friendly and less expensive.

8 Apr 2010