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Innovation meets depackaging: a win-win solution – Bioenergy Insight
Discover our article about FLEXIDRY published in Bioenergy Insight, a magazine with quality news, analysis, market information and technical articles relating to the biomass, biogas and biopower ...
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EPA Challenges Top Corporations to Double Use of Green Power
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is asking Fortune 500 companies to step up to the plate and double their current level of green power purchasing. Green power is environmentally friendly electricity obtained from renewable sources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, biogas and low-impact hydro. The goal of the green power challenge is to exceed 5 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of ...
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Wells Fargo Tops Green Power Buyers List
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) - For the first time, a corporation heads U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's national Top 25 list of green power purchasers. The banking and financial services company Wells Fargo reached the top spot, purchasing 550 million kilowatt hours annually. Organizations that purchase electricity generated from clean, renewable resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, ...
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University of Iowa receives EPA green power partnership award
EPA has presented the University of Iowa, at Iowa City, Iowa, with a Green Power Partnership Top 20 Award for its on-site generation of green power. EPA’s Green Power Partnership works with a variety of organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, agencies at all levels of government, and a growing number of colleges, universities, and schools, to promote green power concepts. EPA ...
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Private Sector Tops Green Power List
Washington, D.C. - For the first time, a corporation leads EPA's national Top 25 list of green power purchasers. Wells Fargo & Company claimed the top spot, purchasing 550 million kilowatt hours annually. Organizations that purchase electricity generated from clean, renewable resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, biomass and low-impact hydro make up the quarterly list. ...
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Town of wellesley designated first green power partner community in Massachusetts
The Town of Wellesley, Mass. has been selected by EPA as a Green Power Community, the first in Massachusetts, and the second in all of New England. The Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program that encourages organizations to buy green power as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with purchased electricity use. To be designated as a Green Power Community a local government ...
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Suffolk county government becomes green energy leader; Dannon, Mohawk papers, HSBC, Sony, Bloomberg LP and Deutsche bank also honored
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Suffolk County, New York has joined EPA’s Top 50 list of the largest green power purchasers in the country. Suffolk County, which obtains 90% of its electricity from green sources, outranks all but six local governments throughout the United States in the total amount of green energy used. Green Power is generated from ...
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Spirit Lake, Iowa, community school district receives EPA green power partnership award
EPA has presented the Spirit Lake, Iowa, Community School District with a Green Power Partnership Award for its on-site generation of green power. EPA’s Green Power Partnership works with a variety of organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, agencies at all levels of government, and a growing number of colleges, universities, and schools, to promote green power concepts. EPA defines ...
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Lockheed Martin Receives EPA Green Power Leadership Award
At an awards ceremony on Sept. 24 in Washington D.C., Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) received a 2012 Green Power Leadership Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The annual awards recognize a company's commitment and contribution to advancing the development of the voluntary green power market. Lockheed Martin was one of only twelve organizations to receive the award. Green ...
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Ivy League Takes Top Spot in Green Power Purchasing
(Washington, D.C.) The U.S Environmental Protection Agency has crowned the Ivy League as the overall champion conference of EPA's College & University Green Power Challenge for 2006-2007. The Ivy League beat out 15 other collegiate athletic conferences and New York University won individual school honors for purchasing more green power, 118 million kilowatt-hours (kWh), than any other school ...
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Who Said It’s Not Easy Being Green?
(Washington, D.C. - Oct. 22, 2007) – This evening, EPA is recognizing 17 leading organizations that are taking voluntary steps to address climate change by purchasing green power and helping advance the development of the nation’s green power market. This year’s green power purchaser award winners include a mix of Fortune 500 companies, businesses, municipalities and a university. 'America is ...
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EPA recognizes Connecticut as one of nation’s top green power purchasers
For the third year in a row, the State of Connecticut has been named one of only three states making EPA’s top 50 list of national Green Power Partners, ranking 36th on that list. This year, Connecticut will be purchasing more than 107 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power, which is enough green power to meet 17 percent of the state’s purchased electricity use. ...
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E.ON completes giant 458 MW wind farm in USA
E.ON officially announced the completion of its Panther Creek wind farm, located in Big Spring, Texas, USA. The Panther Creek complex is a three-phase project that consists of 305 turbines and has an installed capacity of 457.5 megawatts (MW), making it one of the ten largest wind farms in the United States. Phases I and II of the wind farm became operational in the first quarter 2009, with the ...
By E.ON AG
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Prothea successfully advised investors on 30MWp of acquisition in the last 12 months
Italy has been the leading PV market globally in terms of new installations and it has positioned itself as the second largest market for total capacity installed; 2012 will be dominated by consolidation, with large and mid size portfolio being disposed. Prothea, after being active on the development market since 2008, has more recently focused on supporting investors on acquisition of ...
By Prothea srl
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EPA partners continue large green power purchases / one corporation nearly doubles its green power usage (HQ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its list of the top 50 partner organizations using the most renewable electricity to help reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions and protect people’s health. Green power is generated from renewable resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, biomass, and low-impact hydropower. Purchases of green power help accelerate the ...
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Penn takes top honors in EPA’s Green Power Challenge
The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia has finished in first place in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s nationwide College and University Green Power Challenge. EPA began its Green Power Challenge for higher education institutions in 2006, and University of Pennsylvania has been the winner every year. The University of Pennsylvania took top honors this year by purchasing ...
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Oak Ridge Becomes Southeast’s First Green Power Community
On Monday, the City of Oak Ridge, Tennessee becomes the newest member of EPA’s national Green Power Communities initiative. Oak Ridge becomes the first city in the Southeast to take part in the national initiative. “We applaud the City of Oak Ridge for increasing their use of clean and renewable energy sources,” said Beverly Banister, Director of the Air, Pesticides, and Toxics ...
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EPA Recognizes Webster Groves, Mo., as a Leading Green Power Community
The city of Webster Groves, Mo., has been officially designated by EPA as a Green Power Community, in recognition of its collective use of more than 7 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually, enough to meet three percent of the community's total electricity use. Webster Groves is buying a combination of renewable energy certificates (RECs) and utility green power products from ...
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Conservatives propose new energy policy for the UK
Promoting renewable energy, creating a Green Investment Bank and minimising the cost of capital for energy investments are just some of the proposals outlined by the Conservative party in its new energy policy. According to the Conservative party the policy, Rebuilding Security, Conservative Energy Policy for an Uncertain World, contains plans for the largest overhaul of British energy since ...
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EPA recognizes BNY Mellon and Carnegie Mellon University as leaders in purchasing green power (PA)
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership is honoring BNY Mellon and Carnegie Mellon University as Green Power Partners for successfully using green power to help grow the nation’s voluntary green power market while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions. BNY Mellon and Carnegie Mellon University are two of only ten organizations in the nation ...
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