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DOE Awards Energy Savings Contracts Worth $80 Billion

Posted by Environmental Leader on 22/12/2008

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded new Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPCs) to 16 companies.Under an ESPC, the contractor designs, constructs, and obtains the necessary financing for an energy savings project that guarantees savings in ut ...

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QVC Installs One-Megawatt Solar Power Farm

Posted by Environmental Leader on 22/12/2008

Liberty Media’s QVC, working with SunPower Corp., announced the installation of a one-megawatt solar electric power farm at its Rocky Mount Inc. distribution center based in Rocky Mount, NC.The solar array is expected to reduce 3.1 million pounds of carbon emissions annually, the equivalent ...

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Scottrade Turns Down A/C at Data Center

Posted by Environmental Leader on 22/12/2008

St. Louis-based Scottrade, looking to reduce power consumption, hired engineering firm Glumac to improve energy use at it data center, CIO reports.Using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of the center, Glumac first identified a “thermocline,” or plane of warmer air in the upp ...

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NeuCo Optimization Project Improves Emissions, Efficiency

Posted by Environmental Leader on 22/12/2008

NeuCo, working with Dynegy and the Department of Energys National Energy Technology Laboratory, announced the results of a four-year optimization software development and demonstration project that took place at the Baldwin Energy Complex. This project was part of DOEs Clean Coal Power Initiative ...

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RGGI Raises $107M at Carbon Auction

Posted by Environmental Leader on 19/12/2008

Some 69 participants from the financial, energy, and environmental sectors bid on permits for the right to emit carbon dioxide from power plants in the US Northeast in an auction by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).The clearing price was $3.38 per ton, which is $0.31 more than the ...

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