Power Distribution News
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Dan Brown, VP of Energy Management for Cascade, to present real-life examples of how to run eSight in a SAAS model to manage data for industrial clients at the eSight annual summit
Cascade Energy, Inc., a full service industrial energy-efficiency consulting firm, selects eSight energy analysis suite to manage energy data for their extensive range of industrial and utility clients. eSight’s robust data analysis tools provide the foundation for Cascade to custom build energy management programs designed to help industrial companies reduce their energy consumption while ...
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Kimberly-Clark reaffirms sustainability commitment with renewable energy certificates from constellation energy
Kimberly-Clark Corporation (www.kimberly-clark.com) (NYSE: KMB) announced today that it will purchase from Constellation Energy (www.constellation.com) (NYSE: CEG) Green-e® Energy Certified power sourced from wind energy facilities in Texas. The purchase will match 100 percent of the electricity use at the company's worldwide headquarters located in Dallas from July 2011 through June 2014. ...
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Pew Calls for Obama Administration to Raise MPG Standards
The Pew Clean Energy Program launched a video this week to raise awareness of the benefits of increasing the fuel efficiency—or miles-per-gallon (MPG)—standards for cars and light trucks to as high as 60 MPG by 2025. The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation (EPA-DOT) are expected to release a proposed joint rule by Sept. 30, 2011, that will elevate fuel ...
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South San Francisco Unified School District Sets Measure J in Motion to Save $20 Million Through Solar and Energy Efficiency Program
South San Francisco Unified School District and Chevron Energy Solutions will break ground today on the largest K-12 solar and energy efficiency program in San Mateo County. The project will provide nearly 100 local green jobs and is expected to save the district $20 million through a 1.68 megawatt solar and efficiency project spanning 15 elementary, middle, and high school sites. It is the first ...
By Chevron
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FPL Customers Claim First Round of Solar PV Rebates
The application window for Florida Power & Light Company's 2011 solar photovoltaic (PV) rebate program closed today after 310 FPL customers applied for approximately $5.6 million in rebates to reduce the cost of installing their own solar power panels at their home or business. All customers who completed online applications prior to the funding limit being reached were notified via e-mail ...
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IBM Continues to Advance Smart Grid Developments in Korea
In conjunction with the semi-annual Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition (GIUNC) meeting, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced its collaboration with Korea Electric Power Company (KEPCO), on the building of the Total Operations Center at the Jeju Smart Grid Test-Bed Demonstration Complex. The center will allow the 160 companies and 11 consortia members operating at the Jeju Complex to ...
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Groom Energy Announces Enterprise Smart Grid
Groom Energy today announced several initiatives and resources to support the emerging Enterprise Smart Grid. The Enterprise Smart Grid is the integration of sub-metering, software and hardware to manage and reduce corporate energy costs. Comprising 16 different vendor categories, Enterprise Smart Grid is currently a $5.2B vendor market in the U.S. and growing at 40 percent per year, according to ...
By Groom Energy
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Ocean Power Technologies PB150 Device Outperforms in Sea Tests
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTT) ("OPT" or the "Company"), a leading wave energy technology company, is pleased to announce that the first of its new generation utility-scale PowerBuoy® device, the PB150, has delivered better-than-expected initial results from tests being conducted off the northeast coast of Scotland. Rated at 150 kilowatts, this device was ...
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Energy Technology Ventures, a GE-NRG Energy-ConocoPhillips Joint Venture, Invests in Israeli Wastewater-to-Electricity Company Emefcy
Energy Technology Ventures - a GE, NRG Energy and ConocoPhillips joint venture - is making its first non-US and first water-related investment by providing capital to Emefcy Ltd, an Israeli company that can turn wastewater treatment from a huge energy drain to an electricity generator. Emefcy's technology uses naturally occurring bacteria in an electrogenic bioreactor to treat ...
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FedEx adds more than 4,000 new, fuel efficient vehicles
FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and the world's largest express transportation company, continues its holistic fleet approach to fuel efficiency with significant expansion of its lower polluting, energy efficient vehicles. Within the next two months, FedEx Express will place 24 new all-electric vehicles into service, expanding to three new cities and more than doubling its ...
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Metso to supply containerboard line to Greenpac Mill in the United States
Metso Corporation's press release on June 28, 2011 at 09:00 a.m. local time Metso will supply a containerboard production line to Greenpac Mill LLC to their new mill site in Niagara Falls, NY, in the United States. The start-up of the production line is scheduled for the second quarter of 2013. The value of the order is approximately EUR 65 million. The main part of the order is included in ...
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SMA Releases Most Efficient High-Frequency, Slim-Line Inverter on the Market
SMA America is now shipping the Sunny Boy HF-US line of high-frequency, residential solar inverters. SMA’s most installer-friendly models to date, the UL-Certified Sunny Boy 2000HF-US, 2500HF-US and 3000HF-US grid-tied inverters feature a slim enclosure, reduced weight, modern graphic display and industry-leading CEC efficiencies. Sunny Boy HF models are ideal for 2-3kW solar arrays and ...
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N-Viro International YouTube Video Highlights N-Viro Fuel™ Mobile Energy System- The Biomass Energy Alternative Resource to Fuel Power Plants
N-Viro International Corporation (OTCQB-NVIC) has released a YouTube video essay of the N-Viro Fuel™ Mobile Energy System at the Allegheny Clarion Valley industrial complex in Western Pennsylvania. The pre-recorded YouTube video tour hosted by CEO and President, Timothy R. Kasmoch, highlights the process from raw biomass to the N-Viro Fuel™ final product. Join us online at N-Viro ...
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37 graduates congratulated as Carbon Management Programme rolled out to private sector
A further 37 organisations in Scotland graduated from the Carbon Trust’s Carbon Management Programme this week at an official ceremony in Edinburgh, marking the end of the eighth phase of the highly regarded programme. Historic Scotland is one of the organisations to graduate this year, in a cohort which includes a mix of public sector organisations, colleges, and police and fire and ...
By Carbon Trust
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Solarvest BioEnergy Grants Options
SOLARVEST BIOENERGY INC. (TSX VENTURE: SVS) ("Solarvest" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has granted to Dr. Angela Riveroll 70,000 options exercisable at a price of $0.25 per common share for a period of five years from the grant date. As Senior Research Scientist at Solarvest (PEI) Inc., Dr. Riveroll will take a leading role in the company's genetic program to produce hydrogen ...
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GE and Venture Capital Partners to Invest $63 Million in 10 Home Energy Technology Companies as part of “ecomagination Challenge: Powering Your Home”
GE (NYSE: GE) and its venture capital partners today announced that they will invest $63 million in 10 innovative home energy technology companies, marking the second round of funding as part of the $200 million “GE ecomagination Challenge” (www.ecomagination.com/announcements). This phase of the Challenge, “Powering Your Home,” was launched in ...
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Boralex releases 2013 first-quarter results
Boralex Inc. ("Boralex" or the "Corporation") (TSX: BLX) maintained its earnings before interest, income taxes and amortization ("EBITDA") during the first quarter of 2013, while improving its profit margin due to the higher weight of the wind power segment. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS (In millions of dollars, except per share amounts and EBITDA margin) Three-month periods ended March 31 ...
By Enerkem
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CTC Cable Announces ACCC Conductor Order in the Southeast U.S.
CTC Cable Corporation (CTC Cable), a subsidiary of Composite Technology Corporation, is pleased to announce that it has received an order from a major Southeast utility for ACCC Conductor. The order is comprised of fifteen miles of ACCC (438 kcmil) Oriole conductor to be used to upgrade an existing 69 kV, 60 MVA copper conductor line crossing Apalachicola Bay in Apalachicola, Florida. ...
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IEA makes 60 million barrels of oil available to market to offset Libyan disruption
International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka announced today that the 28 IEA member countries have agreed to release 60 million barrels of oil in the coming month in response to the ongoing disruption of oil supplies from Libya. This supply disruption has been underway for some time and its effect has become more pronounced as it has continued. The normal seasonal increase in ...
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Landmark Rooftop Solar Project to Create Thousands of Jobs in 28 States
Rooftop solar generation takes a giant leap forward as a consortium of leading companies – Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Prologis and NRG Energy – announce an offer of a conditional commitment from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office to help finance the largest distributed rooftop solar generation project in the world. The loan guarantee supporting $1.4 billion ...
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