Richland, Penn., is among several municipalities in the state to have paid money for energy upgrades that were never delivered. In 2009, Richland paid $165,488 upfront to energy consulting company Municipal Energy Managers to help the town secure ownership of its streetlights and to help it install LED bulbs in the lights. But Municipal Energy …Continue Reading
Juan Santamaría International Airport in Costa Rica is installing a large quantity of solar-powered LED signs by ADB Airfield Solutions and Carmanah Technologies. The project originally specified hard-wired LED signs, but instead switched to solar signs to reduce civil works expenditures and overall project cost. Solar-powered signs are useful for airports that have difficulty accessing …Continue Reading
Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico did some major energy efficiency upgrades in 2010, which helped the non-profit survive big rate increases of Public Service Company of New Mexico. The food bank raised about $350,000 in grants from a private donor and the Walmart Foundation, among others, and, the organization got about $20,000 in energy …Continue Reading
The new $18 million, 45,000-sq-foot Aquatic and Community Centre in Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec, employs a 500-ft-deep geothermal field, exhaust air heat recovery for preheating outside air, dehumidifier compressor heat recovery for free pool water heating, and a reduced refrigerant HVAC dehumidifier strategy. The city will achieve a four-year payback, save millions of dollars in energy …Continue Reading
Cree says its CPY250 canopy and soffit LED lighting series consumes 75 percent less energy than the metal halide (MH) systems it’s designed to replace. The new CPY Series targets a range of canopy applications including gas stations, bank drive-through ATMs and hotel/airport drop-off centers. A canopy installation with Cree CPY250 LED luminaires can deliver …Continue Reading
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has presented Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations’ LaVergne, Tenn., tire manufacturing plant with a rebate of more than $350,000 under TVA’s and Nashville Electric Service’s EnergyRight Solutions for Industry program. The LaVergne plant improvements are the result of an overall plant lighting upgrade that began in 2010 to reduce energy costs …Continue Reading
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Demand to Grid (D2G) Lab is testing a variety of communication architectures to govern the way information moves between energy users and the grid, and how it can be viewed and monitored. The D2G Lab is demonstrating the Energy Service Interface, a generic interface between the service provider and customer. This …Continue Reading
The Castle Museum in Saginaw, Mich., is now illuminated with 19 Lithonia Lighting D-Series LED Flood Luminaires from Acuity Brands. The newly installed LED floodlights at the 40,000-square-foot facility consume less than 780 watts. D-Series LED flood luminaires distribute light to a target area using a choice of seven different optics. While the D-Series LED …Continue Reading
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Ameresco has begun work on an energy savings performance contract (ESPC) with Lewis and Clark County, Mont., in which Ameresco will install over $1.6 million of energy efficiency improvements at 28 county-owned buildings. The project is expected to be completed in the fall of 2013, and the improvements are projected to save the county about …Continue Reading
