As part of a partnership with Nest, Green Mountain Energy Co. is offering customers the opportunity to pair 100 percent renewable electricity with the Nest® Learning Thermostat™. Consumers can now receive the thermostat at no charge as part of the Pollution Free™ Efficient with Nest renewable electricity package.
Mike Duke, Walmart president and CEO, has announced the company’s next step on the path to achieving its goal of being supplied 100 percent by renewable energy.
The Illinois Senate Energy Committee passed SB 2365 on a vote of 16-0, moving it to the full Senate. GEO is pushing an identical bill, HB 2514, in the Illinois House of Representatives.
HyperSolar Inc., developer of a new technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and any source of water, has announced plans to build renewable hydrogen generators for commercial use.
Made entirely from renewable and recycled material, the Vertiga convector unites the manufacturer’s Low-H20, low-temperature, and dynamic boost effect (DBE) technologies with stunning design, and it promotes linear airflow rather than a top-down circulation system, said the company.
Cedarville University will soon be receiving clean, renewable energy from the sun via a 2,154 kilowatt solar array on the southwest edge of campus. Power is expected to begin flowing in April.
A recent study by Ceres — “Practicing Risk-Aware Electricity Regulation: What Every State Regulator Needs to Know” — concluded that the least cost and least risk for future energy resources is energy efficiency. Indeed, the lowest cost unit of energy is one that is not used.
IKEA announced that it has officially plugged in the solar energy system installed at its store in Sunrise, Fla., which will be the largest solar installation in south Florida and, when combined with IKEA projects already completed at stores in Orlando and Tampa, will make IKEA the state’s largest non-utility solar owner.
The United States is consuming energy considerably more efficiently and with lower emissions than just five years ago thanks to a number of modern technologies that are changing decades-old patterns, according to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy.
