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Results for Long Island's Second Clean Solar Initiative Announced

PSEG Long Island announced today the results for Long Island's second Clean Solar Initiative. The feed-in-tariff program builds upon Long Island Power Authority's first feed-in tariff for solar energy and is designed to bring an additional 100 megawatts (MW) of solar energy to Long Island.

4 Apr 2014

NASA Launches GlobalSelfie Earth Day Event to Encourage Environmental Awareness

For the first time in more than a decade, five NASA Earth-observing missions will be launched into space in a single year. To celebrate this milestone, NASA is inviting people all around the world to step outside on Earth Day, April 22, take a "selfie," and share it with the world on social media.

3 Apr 2014

Municipal Recycling Programs Encouraged to Promote 'Caps On Bottles'

The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR), representing over 90% of North America's post-consumer plastic recycling capacity, is encouraging municipal recycling programs to promote 'the Caps On Bottles' to take advantage of this recycling opportunity.

3 Apr 2014

NASA to Launch Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 for Study of Carbon Dioxide Worldwide

Simply by breathing, humans have played a small part in the planet-wide balancing act called the carbon cycle throughout our existence. However, in the last few hundred years, we have taken a larger role. Our activities, such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation, are pushing the cycle out of its natural balance, adding more and more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

3 Apr 2014

Verne Global-ODCA Proof of Concept Study Recognized with Environmental Leader Award

Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of energy efficient data center campuses, today announced that the Proof of Concept (PoC) study they participated in with the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has been recognized with an Environmental Leader Award for Top Project of the Year 2014.

3 Apr 2014

EDF Renewable Energy Places Firm Order with Vestas for 194 MW of Wind Turbine Generators

EDF Renewable Energy has placed a firm order with Vestas for 194 megawatts (MW) of V100-2.0 MW wind turbine generators. The order is part of the Master Supply Agreement (MSA) announced in September 2013.

3 Apr 2014

SweetPro to Raise Renewable Content of Plastic Holding Pans for Feed Blocks

SweetPro, a leading manufacturer and distributor of premium feed supplement blocks for livestock, announced today it is taking steps to go green with one of its core products. The company is looking to raise the renewable content of the plastic holding pans it sources for its 250-pound feed blocks with Laurel BioComposite’s Bio-Res PE, a USDA-certified biomaterial.

3 Apr 2014

Operations Begin at MHI Vestas Offshore Wind

Following the approval from all relevant authorities, MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has been formally established as of 1 April 2014, ref. company announcements Nos. 41/2013 of 27 September 2013 and 9/2014 of 28 February 2014.

2 Apr 2014

Scatec Solar Granted Final Approvals to Build Utah Red Hills Renewable Energy Park

Today, Scatec Solar, the global independent solar power producer, received the final approvals necessary to proceed with the building of an 80 MW (ac) PV (photovoltaic) solar plant in Iron County, Utah.

2 Apr 2014

New Report on South African Renewable Energy Services Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Renewable Energy Services Market and its Potential in South Africa" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 2 Apr 2014

Dominion Acquires Six Solar Development Projects from Recurrent Energy

Dominion announced the acquisition of six solar development projects from Recurrent Energy, one of North America's largest developers of utility scale solar projects.

2 Apr 2014

Lecture on Pennsylvania’s Experience with Impact of Fracking on Water

Fracking, the hydraulic fracturing technology by which shale rocks are fractured by a pressurized liquid to release oil and natural gas, is controversial with proponents citing an increase in domestic oil production and lower gas prices, and opponents voicing environmental concerns and worries over small tremors that have sometimes followed fracking.

2 Apr 2014

Nutrients from the Land Leading to Widespread Oxygen Depletion

After several years of discussions, researchers from Aarhus University (Denmark), Lund University (Sweden) and Stockholm University (Sweden) have determined that nutrients from the land are the main cause of widespread areas of oxygen depletion. The results were published on 31 March in the prestigious American journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

2 Apr 2014

Geolica Saves Cost with Schaeffler Condition Monitoring Systems for Wind Turbines

By installing condition monitoring systems from Schaeffler on 56 wind turbines, Spanish renewable energy provider Geolica is making significant annual cost savings.

1 Apr 2014

The Lucia Mar Unified School District to Break Ground on Comprehensive Sustainability Project

The Lucia Mar Unified School District will break ground on a comprehensive sustainability project that will include solar energy systems, energy efficiency measures and improved lighting components that are estimated to save the district about $20 million after paying all program costs over the 30-year project life.

From Chevron 1 Apr 2014