carbon dioxide reduction News
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AEP's Clean Energy Strategy Projected To Achieve Significant Future Carbon Dioxide Reductions
American Electric Power recently released a report outlining the company’s strategy for a clean energy future. The strategy includes new carbon dioxide emission reduction goals and investments in renewable resources and advanced technologies to enhance the efficiency of the power grid. In the report, AEP outlines a business strategy that will lead to reductions in carbon dioxide emissions ...
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Kettle Cuisine To Act Upon EDF Climate Corps Environmental Sustainability Improvement Opportunities
Today, Kettle Cuisine announced the results of this summer’s Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Climate Corps fellowship findings, which identified significant opportunities for the company to improve its environmental sustainability. This includes unearthing nearly 200 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) reductions and nearly 500,000 kilowatts of energy ...
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NSW Minister for Resources and Energy to Open Algae.Tec Algae to Biofuels Global Showcase Facility in Australia
Algae.Tec (ASX:AEB, FWB:GZA:GR, OTCQX :ALGXY) the advanced algae to biofuels company with a high-yield, enclosed and scalable algae growth and harvesting system today announced the algae to biofuels showcase facility Shoalhaven One will be officially opened on 2 August 2012. Algae.Tec is pleased to announce the New South Wales Minister for Resources and Energy the Honourable Chris Hartcher, MP ...
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Algae.Tec Appoints Veteran Aviation Project Engineer for Global Biofuels Commercialisation Program
Algae.Tec (ASX:AEB, FWB:GZA:GR, OTCQX :ALGXY) the advanced algae to biofuels company with a high-yield, enclosed and scaleable algae growth and harvesting system today announced the appointment of Colin McGregor as General Manager Project Operations. McGregor, an award winning project manager and manufacturing engineer, with over 20 years aviation experience in both the defense and commercial ...
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Algae.Tec Announces Commencement of Australian Advanced Biofuels Facility Commissioning
Algae.Tec (ASX:AEB, FWB:GZA:GR, OTCQX:ALGXY), an advanced algae to biofuels company with a high-yield enclosed algae growth and harvesting system today announced commissioning for its showcase biofuels facility Shoalhaven One in Nowra Australia started this week. Algae.Tec Executive Chairman Roger Stroud said the commissioning process was on track for production of algae biomass in early ...
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Algae.Tec and Lufthansa Sign Collaboration Agreement to Build Biofuel Production Facility in Europe
Algae.Tec Limited is pleased to announce that Algae.Tec and Lufthansa have signed a Collaboration Agreement for the construction of a large-scale algae to aviation biofuels production facility. The site will be in Europe adjacent to an industrial CO2 source. Lufthansa will arrange 100% funding for the project. Algae.Tec will receive licence fees and profits from the Project, which will be ...
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Kyoto City launches green power certification system
The city of Kyoto, famous as the place where the world's first climate change treaty requiring greenhouse gas reductions was agreed, has developed a way to reduce its own greenhouse gases. The Miyako Agenda21 Forum, an environmental partnership organization established by Kyoto City in collaboration with its citizens, businesses and surrounding local municipalities, has launched the Miyako ...
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Orion Energy Systems` exterior lighting wins gold at plant engineering awards
Orion Energy Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:OESX) was awarded first place in the lighting category at the Plant Engineering Product of the Year Awards held Monday. Introduced in 2009, Orion's exterior lighting uses fluorescent technology to reduce energy consumption and costs by 50 percent when compared to high-intensity discharge lighting traditionally used to illuminate parking lots and other outdoor ...
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NIB to finance Bank of Greenland's environmental loan facility
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) will provide a loan to the Bank of Greenland to finance its new environmental loan programme. The 10-year maturity loan totalling DKK 25 million (EUR 3.35 million) will help finance energy efficiency measures in private households. Around 40% of all energy consumption in Greenland derives from heating buildings. Qualifying projects will include investments in ...
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New York`s JFK First Airport to Install Geothermal Power
NEW YORK, New York, October 1, 2007 (ENS) - For the first time, geothermal energy will be used power a building at a United States airport. A police facility at John F. Kennedy International Airport will be coverted to geothermal power to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the New York and New Jersey Port Authority Board of Commissioners has decided. The mechanical, heating, ventilation and air ...
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Major technological progress needed to make renewable energy affordable
Major technological progress needed to make renewable energy affordable says a study by the RAND corpoaration. Dramatic progress in renewable energy technology is needed if the United States desires to produce 25 percent of its electricity and motor vehicle fuel from renewable sources by 2025 without significantly increasing consumer costs, according to a RAND Corporation study. Produced by the ...
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GE Gas Turbine Technology to Power Lichterfelde 300-Megawatt Combined-Cycle Plant in Berlin
GE (NYSE: GE) today announced that it will provide a GE 9F gas turbine and long-term services for the Lichterfelde power plant, developed by the Swedish utility Vattenfall and constructed by Iberdrola Engineering. The new combined-cycle plant is expected to supply 300 megawatts (MW) of electricity and a thermal capacity of nearly 230 MW for southwestern districts of Berlin. GE will provide ...
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GE, Bangpa-In cogeneration sign aeroderivative service agreement for New Thailand power generation facility
GE to Provide Long-Term Maintenance Services for LM6000-PD Gas Turbines at 110-Megawatt Cogeneration Plant The Plant is One of Thailand’s Small Power Producers Highlighting GE’s (NYSE: GE) technical expertise and regional capabilities in support of the country’s Small Power Producers (SPP) Program, GE and Bangkok-based power plant developer Bangpa-In Cogeneration Ltd., a ...
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GE Aeroderivative Gas Turbines Tapped for Independent Power Project in Myanmar
GE (NYSE: GE) aeroderivative gas turbine technology has been selected for one of the first projects in Myanmar since the U.S. government recently lifted sanctions on U.S. investment in the country. A fast-track project, the new natural gas-fired power plant facility will enter commercial service no later than the second quarter of 2013 and will produce about 100 megawatts to help meet ...
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US government to raise renewable fuel quota sharply
The amount of ethanol and biodiesel Americans burn in their cars and trucks is increasing by law. The 2008 renewable fuels standard will be raised to 7.76 percent, up by two-thirds on the current standard of 4.66 percent to comply with the new energy bill enacted late last year. The increase is in response to the Energy Independence and Security Act, which President George W. Bush signed in ...
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GE Aeroderivative Gas Turbines to provide fast power to Turkmenistan
GE Technology to Provide 360 Megawatts of Power to Help Meet Turkmenistan’s Growing Needs First Project in Country to Use GE’s Aeroderivative Technology to Produce Power Natural Gas Seen as a Key to the Country’s Energy Future Helping to meet Turkmenistan’s growing power requirements, GE (NYSE: GE) will provide its aeroderivative gas turbine technology to ...
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Ameresco Announces Work on Energy Efficiency Project at Nevada’s Fourth Largest School District
Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC), a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy company, announced today its Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) with Lyon County School District (LCSD) in western Nevada. The $3.6 million ESPC is expected to save the state’s fourth largest school district over $345,000 annually for 15 years. LCSD includes one of ...
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Johnson Controls celebrates World Environment Day by providing free energy efficiency tools
On World Environment Day, Johnson Controls, the global leader in delivering solutions that increase energy efficiency in buildings, launches Driving Transformation to Energy Efficient Buildings: Policies and Actions. This tool kit is designed to help the estimated 6.5 billion people who will live and work in urban buildings by 2050 breathe cleaner air, be more comfortable, save money, and ...
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EPA’s Reproposed Carbon Limits Include Separate Standards for Coal, Gas Units
The Environmental Protection Agency is scheduled to publish reproposed carbon dioxide limits for new power plants Jan. 8, setting separate standards for coal-fired and natural gas-fired generating units. The EPA released the proposal Sept. 20, following a schedule President Barack Obama laid out, but the agency waited nearly four months to publish the rule in the Federal Register. The new plant ...
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Report Reveals Dramatic Energy Efficiency Impacts, Warns Of Stalled Progress In Face Of Climate Challenge
Energy efficiency is a diverse and immensely powerful toolkit that has saved hundreds of billions of dollars in energy costs while preventing sharp increases in greenhouse gas emissions, but progress is now at risk of stalling, a recent report finds. The first-of-its-kind report from the Alliance to Save Energy, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, and the Business Council for ...
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