In a press release today, Office Depot said that all 14 of their stores slated to open this year will be LEED certified for Commercial Interiors. Office Depot, who sells $14B of office supplies annually, should be commended for that commitment in their new build strategy. An Austin green concept store opened in 2008 is [...]
I thought this was pretty interesting considering all of the doom and gloom regarding the retail sector. Several large retailers are making serious investments in greening their businesses. Huge retailer, Kohl’s, increased its green energy purchase by 160 percent, from 851 million kWh to 1.37 billion kWh, moving from the third-largest purchaser to the second-largest [...]
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is now reviewing a proposal to link three separate North American electricity grids with state-of-the-art switching terminals and superconducting cables. Those three grids – the Eastern Interconnection east of the Rocky Mountains, the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) west of the Rockies, and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) [...]
While the world stops and watches the Copenhagen meetings, I find some stats that CNBC is reporting as very interesting from a capital investment perspective: $451 million in private equity deals flowed into the solar sector in the third quarter of 2009, with service companies getting more attention than manufacturing or research-oriented ones. That investment [...]
Lowe’s announced last week that it would start selling PV panels in California and nationwide in 2010. They are obviously for home use but it is interesting nonetheless. They also mention that you can special order a wind turbine soon.
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