All Posts Tagged With: "energy efficiency"

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Green Data Centers Lead Industry Sea Change

The data center industry consumes between 2% and 2.5% of the world’s total energy. Boulder, Colo-based Pike Research has issued a new report that explores global green data center trends with regional forecasts for market size and opportunities through 2016.

24Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Poll: Americans Believe U.S. Headed in
Wrong Direction on Energy

While jobs overwhelmingly top the list of national concerns,
the majority of Americans care about energy issues. More than three quarters of those surveyed said they are worried about a lack of progress in developing better ways to use energy efficiently and develop renewable sources.

4Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Reduced-Cost Energy Audits Available

Wyoming agricultural producers, small businesses and rural electric cooperatives all outside of Cheyenne are eligible for low-cost energy audits and renewable energy development assistance, but time is of the essences as applications are evaluated on a first-come, first-served basis.

25Oct2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Report: Energy Efficiency, Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals to Drive HVAC Innovation

In addition, the report from Pike Research predicts regulatory shifts, including more stringent codes and LEED requirements, will enable emergent HVAC technologies, which in some cases have been available for many years, to achieve market traction at last.

29Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Cheyenne Data Center Expands Green Operations

Green House Data specializes in building enterprise level hosting facilities that utilize 40% less energy than its traditional data center competitors — all while being powered 100% through renewable wind energy.

27Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Western Utilities Aim For Increased Efficiency

Can a push to reduce electricity usage reduce the need for new power plants in the Rockies despite the region’s population growth? Colorado illustrates changed thinking where utilities in recent years have started tackling energy efficiency with as much vigor as they once reserved for building new power plants.

5May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Report: Energy Efficiency Vital But Ignored

Among the findings: Companies and individuals tend to invest in assets and products they can see, feel and touch. Energy efficiency does not necessarily meet these criteria and must compete with other, more tangible business priorities.

31Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Efficiency Bright Spot in Otherwise Deflated
Clean Energy Investment Market

As Nick Hodge of Green Chip Stocks points out, the crux of the problem is that if VCs and private equity fund managers don’t see a profitable exit, they aren’t going to lend money in the early rounds. Lower fossil fuel prices and uncertainty in the regulatory arena have exacerbated the problem.

11Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Rocky Mountain Power’s Blue Sky Renewable Energy Program Rises in National Rankings

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory ranked Rocky Mountain Power’s Blue Sky program second in the nation for total number of participating customers in its annual assessment of leading utility green power programs released earlier this week

7May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Jackson Hole, Facing 2011 Energy Cap, Looks to Solar

Wyoming government officials haven’t adequately addressed the problem, but the town’s residents – always a little ahead of the state curve – stand ready to meet the challenge by installing solar photovoltaic energy systems, with a little help from $2.25 million in federal stimulus funds.

9Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Homeowners Snap Up Renewable Energy Grants

They quickly claimed $2.25 million in federal stimulus funds as part of a recent state program for residential renewable energy projects. The State Energy Office is finalizing grant agreements so about 330 people can get started on projects to install solar, wind or ground-source heat energy systems at their homes

21Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Cleantech Executives Warn U.S. Moving Too Slowly in Transition to Green Economy

At this week’s National Clean Energy Summit sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, executives from the renewable energy industry warned unless the federal government closes a hole in climate legislation, the energy won’t reach homes that need it.

11Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Report: West Leads in Clean Energy Boom –
Wyoming’s Clean Energy Jobs Grew Four
Times Faster Than Total Jobs

Clean energy jobs, including renewable energy, energy efficiency, environmentally-friendly production, conservation and pollution mitigation and training and support – grew despite a lack of sustained government support in the past decade, Pew found.

11Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State Gets $35 Million for Efficiency
and Weatherization

The Obama administration says the funding will support weatherization of homes, including adding more insulation, sealing leaks and modernizing heating and air conditioning equipment, which will pay for itself many times over.

13Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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