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FPL Energy Announces First Utility-Scale Solar Plant
Dec 17, 2008
With Florida and the nation facing the twin challenges of climate change and energy security, FPL’s new 75-megawatt Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center marks an important early step in Florida’s quest to use more sun to power the Sunshine State....
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22,500 Attend SolarPower 2008
Oct 21, 2008
Let’s be honest. At many trade shows in the mainstream electrical market, you can sometimes shoot a cannon down the aisle and not hit an attendee. Try that at SolarPower 2008, held October 13-16 in San Diego, and you would graze a few dozen greenies. In only its fifth year, SolarPower 2008 had more than 22,500 attendees (up 10,000 from last year), 425 booths -- and another 450 companies on a waiting list that couldn’t get booth space. Not bad for a show that started out in a San Francisco hotel with 60 exhibitors and 1,000 visitors in 2003....
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Colleges Unite to Research LEDs
Oct 8, 2008
Imagine if a building's lighting system did double-duty and along with illuminating the facility also provided a wireless communications network....
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Sylvania Solidifies Lighting Maintenance Business
Oct 6, 2008
Sylvania, Danvers, Mass., is best-known in the electrical market as one of the three largest lighting manufacturers in the world, along with GE Lighting, Cleveland, and Philips Lighting, Somerset, N.J. But for the past 35 years, the company has been a growing power in the lighting maintenance business by providing lighting design, lighting audit, maintenance and installation services to retail stores, office buildings and other commercial and industrial customers.
Its purchase last week of Amtech Lighting Services from ABM Industries, New York, will increase the size of this business unit substantially. Amtech Lighting Services is one of the nation’s largest leading lighting management companies, serving over 35,000 locations, with 26 branches and 64 satellite operations across the United States.
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GE Teams Up With Google
Oct 6, 2008
GE is working with Google on “technology and policy initiatives” to promote and develop additional capacity in the electricity grid and smart-grid technologies, according to a recent article in The New York Times. Dan Reicher, director of climate change and energy initiatives at Google.org, an operating unit of Google, was quoted in the article as saying many of the renewable initiatives now underway will not reach their full potential unless the United States adds to its transmission grid. ...
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Hubbell Lighting Launches GreenWise
Oct 6, 2008
Hubbell Lighting, Greenville, S.C., recently launched GreenWise, an online resource intended to show building owners, building operators, facility managers, and other decision makers responsible for operations the benefits of energy-conscious lighting principles. Hubbell Lighting estimates that 80 percent of the existing commercial buildings in the United States are still operating with lighting systems dating back to the 1980s and that the lighting retrofit market is huge. ...
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Quanta Services Working on 30 Renewable Energy Projects
Sep 10, 2008
Quanta Services (PWR), Houston is quite possibly the country’s biggest builder of electrical infrastructure, and a zillionaire oilman-turned-wind zealot is adding thousands of megawatts of wind power in its backyard....
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Don't Tell Your Boss
Sep 10, 2008
Be honest…. You like to bust up a few energy-wasting light bulbs every now and then. Now you don’t have to sneak some bulbs, beers and a few claw hammers out to the parking lot after-hours with some of your office buddies. Check out this free bulb-busting video game. It’s sure to be an instant classic in the lighting biz. Thank you www.treehugger.com and Planet Green!...
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Zillionaire Investing Billions in the Hurricane-Force Potential of the Wind
Sep 10, 2008
Zillionaire T. Boone Pickens has big ideas on how wind turbines can reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil, and he is backing those ideas with a massive investment in wind farms. The 4,000 megawatt wind farm he is building in northern Texas will eventually produce enough power for 1.3 million homes. When completed, that power will be shipped over transmission lines operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas system downstate to customers....
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Better, Cheaper LEDs
Sep 1, 2008
A new breakthrough in solid-state lighting has the potential to hasten the spread of general-use LED lighting. Scientists at Purdue University have figured...
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LEED Certification Bodies Announced
Sep 1, 2008
As a part of the broader vision for LEED v3, the certification bodies for the LEED Green Building Rating System have been announced. The companies selected...
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