Parents, evangelicals, businesspeople, lawmakers and others agree: Doubling Maryland’s renewable energy standard would help the state’s economy, its environment and its future. A broad array of supporters of a proposal to increase Maryland’s renewable portfolio standard to 40 percent by 2025 gathered in front of Maryland’s statehouse on the opening day of the 2015 legislative session … Read more
Last Monday on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, Gov. Terry McAuliffe issued a permit for a new 80-megawatt solar array. The power from this array will be delivered onto the grids that supply electricity to Amazon Web Services data centers in Northern Virginia. A long-term power purchase agreement with the developer and owner of the facility, Community Energy, enabled … Read more
In April 2011, three men from Chesterfield, Missouri, formed Ideal Energy Solutions, an energy consulting firm catering to utilities. As they gained experience with commercial energy efficiency incentives, they saw a big discrepancy between the energy efficiency incentives utilities were offering, and the number of consumers actually taking advantage of those incentives. “Plain and simple, … Read more
The Department of Defense is leading the nation in clean energy and energy efficiency — creating jobs, reducing energy expenses and driving economic growth in communities across the country. The DoD’s leadership in renewable energy, advanced biofuels and building and equipment efficiency also helps save taxpayers money and paves the waay for more wide-scale commercial … Read more
Michigan’s Camp Grayling encompasses almost 150,000 acres in the northern part of the state’s lower peninsula. The training site for about 10,000 soldiers annually, it’s here and on Army posts across the country that the military’s energy culture shift is taking root. Michigan’s National Guard has set an ambitious goal – to make Camp Grayling … Read more