Solar Energy World Brings Sustainability to Soccer Maryland-based solar energy systems provider helps reduce Soccer Dome’s energy footprint In recent years, sports arenas and stadiums have become champions of sustainability for both social and financial reasons. The STAPLES Center, home to the Los Angeles Lakers, has 5% of its total power provided by solar panels, while the Portland Trail Blazers’ …
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What does it mean to be a high-performance building?
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 47 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions are from existing buildings. From a global perspective, reducing energy consumption in buildings is imperative for a sustainable future. So when property owners and managers transform an existing facility into one that’s a high-performance building, what does that mean? Essentially, it means doing more with less. …
Read More »Giving Away Money – a Tough Sell
A Case for Energy Efficiency Rebate Program by Katia Lundy, Sr. Marketing Specialist, Member of the Con Edison Green Team If you think it’s hard trying to get a loan from a bank or selling real estate in this economy, try “selling” money. Well, not actually selling money but giving generous rebates and incentives for energy efficiency projects. The sales …
Read More »Going Green Without Going Crazy
Utilities worry about a lot of things, such as keeping the lights on, earning a return for investors, and making regulators and customers happy with their service. Now there is a new worry: How can they protect customers from what one utility refers to as “mental fatigue?” By Elisa Wood January 11, 2012 In this particular case, the utility raises …
Read More »What are Alternatives to Regular Gas?
Gas is what powers the majority of vehicles.Recently, however, as more attention has been placed on the health of our environment, more and more manufacturers are beginning to look at different options. There are now many different types of vehicles that are powered by alternative methods. Here are a few of them: Power by Liquefied Petroleum Gas This type of …
Read More »ClearEdge Power Expands Portfolio of Continuous Onsite Power Systems
New Solutions Meet Diverse Energy Demands of Commercial, Institutional and Residential Customers HILLSBORO, Ore. – November 29, 2011 – ClearEdge Power, a manufacturer of scalable, continuous onsite power systems, today expanded its product portfolio to meet the increasingly complex energy demands of commercial, institutional and residential customers. With the addition of two new product designs, ClearEdge Power now offers a …
Read More »Solar Industry Leaders Meet To Promote Solar Growth
SOLAR POWER INTERNATIONAL BREAKS NEW GROUND IN TEXAS Executives Come Together To Affirm Growth of Solar Industry Washington, D.C., – November 1, 2011 – Energy leaders from around the world descended upon Dallas, Texas for Solar Power International ’11, October 17 – 20. For the first time in its eight year history, SPI was staged outside California proving that the …
Read More »Portland Community College Partners with ClearEdge Power to Support Environmental Sustainability Practices
The Increasingly Urgent Need for Solar Energy
–Philip J Reed, on behalf of Westwood College We all know it’s coming: the environmental event horizon. That is to say, the point of no return. Treat the planet badly enough and, eventually, it will no longer be able to recover. How close are we? Closer than we think, probably, and we can’t keep dragging our feet in the hope …
Read More »Cleaner Diesel Emmisions
Diesels fuels are now giving off cleaner emissions New Legislation The 2010 Emissions Regulations passed in by the EPA demand major reductions in the NOx and NMHC emissions produced by diesel engines. Under the new regulations, diesel engines manufactured after January 1, 2010, are required to emit less than 0.14 grams per brake horsepower hour (g/bhp-hr) of non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC) …
Read More »The Environmental Benefits of Using Solar Panels
We no longer need to burn fossil fuels to produce usable energy. Today there are many alternative forms of usable energy available to us. Choosing to utilize other forms of renewable energy such as solar panels not only reduces our carbon footprint and the impact that we have on the world, but also provides us with a sustainable energy source …
Read More »Harnessing Solar Energy Using Home Solar Power Systems
Harnessing solar energy using home solar power systems is an ideal way to cut your monthly power bills by over 80%, adding to that, you can also contribute to protect our environment. Solar energy is a renewable source of energy, and when converted, it releases no toxic emissions into our environment at all. Solar energy is free. Solar energy comes …
Read More »Harnessing Solar Energy With Home Solar Power Systems
When you harness solar energy with home solar power systems, it can be a great way to reduce your monthly power bills by over 80%, and on top of that, you can contribute in protecting our environment. Solar energy is known to be a renewable energy source, and when you convert it, it does not produce any toxic emissions into …
Read More »Home Solar Power Systems – Generate Free Electricity With Solar Energy
When you harness solar energy with home solar power systems, it can be a great way to reduce your monthly power bills by over 80%, and on top of that, you can contribute in protecting our environment. Solar energy is a renewable source of energy, and when converted, it releases no toxic emissions into our environment at all. Solar energy …
Read More »Home Solar Power Systems – Creating Free Electricity With Solar Energy
When you harness solar energy with home solar power systems, it can be a great way to reduce your monthly power bills by over 80%, and on top of that, you can contribute in protecting our environment. Solar energy is known to be a renewable energy source, and when you convert it, it does not produce any toxic emissions into …
Read More »Understanding Different Types of Waste Heat Recovery
Options are available in all industries including waste heat recovery where the customers can purchase recovery systems that recover sensible alone or sensible and latent heat together. It is vital that businesses interested in investing in heat recovery have a clear understanding of how and why these systems are different and how each one can maximize the benefits they hope …
Read More »Large New Solar Project In Sacramento CA
The 12,600-panel array will produce enough power to meet approximately 40% of the annual electricity needs at Depot Park, the former Sacramento Army Depot. The installation is one of the largest ground mounted-tracking solar projects in California and the only one located at a Superfund Site within a redeveloped military facility.
Read More »Wind Power Electricity – A Step Towards Sustainability
Robert Park asked: The greatest thing about Wind Power Electricity is that it’s a renewable source of energy which throughout its life cycle only produces minimal units of carbon dioxide emissions. Therefore, this energy is said to be one of the most viable options for energy that has great potential to grow rapidly, both globally and locally. Since the wind …
Read More »Your Hybrid Car Engine
The hybrid car engine holds the key to its being an environment-friendly vehicle. They are a combination of a gas engine and an electric motor that assists a car as it accelerates, slows down and even when it stops. Throughout all these basic actions, the hybrid car engine plays a major role so that the least amount of gas is used and cleaner emissions achieved.
Read More »Tesla Secret Generator: A Fantastic Strategy To Decrease Your Dependence On The Electricity Company
If you’ve been trying to cut expenses and have been disappointed by the prices set from the utility companies, you might require to think about the Tesla secret generator. This machine has been a govt kept secret for almost a century, but is now being released to anybody who can follow directions and put together some simple and readily available …
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