Custom-Bilt Metals Covers Rincon Band Chapel with FusionSolar Solar Power System

Tuesday, May 25th 2010
 Custom-Bilt Metals Covers Rincon Band Chapel with FusionSolar Solar Power System

Custom-Bilt Metals, a company with a long history of environmental leadership through product innovation, and metal roofing contractor, Unique Concepts Inc., announce the completion of a 5.7kw solar system integrated with standing seam metal roofing on the newly rebuilt St. Bartholomew’s Chapel on the Rincon Reservation, Valley Center, CA. The original, historic St. Bartholomew’s Chapel on the Rincon Reservation was burned down as a victim of... 

SunEdison Activates First Phase of its 16MW North Carolina Solar Farm

Friday, February 5th 2010
SunEdison Activates First Phase of its 16MW North Carolina Solar Farm

SunEdison, North America’s largest solar energy services provider and a subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials, has activated the first phase of its 16-megawatt solar farm in Davidson County, N.C. The first phase of the project represents 4 megawatts of generation capacity and is comprised of more than 14,000 solar panels that will generate over 6 million kilowatt hours of electricity in the first year of operation. Duke Energy is buying the... 

SunEdison and Developers Diversified Realty Celebrate the Activation of National Rooftop Solar Program

Monday, January 25th 2010
SunEdison and Developers Diversified Realty Celebrate the Activation of National Rooftop Solar Program

SunEdison, North America’s largest solar energy services provider, a subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials (NYSE: WFR) and Developers Diversified Realty, the owner, manager and developer of a dynamic international portfolio of highly valued shopping centers, today announced the activation of five solar power projects in Princeton, Hamilton and Union, New Jersey. This activation is the first phase of Developers Diversified’s national rooftop... 

Echelon Accelerates Enterprise Energy Management Momentum

Wednesday, November 11th 2009
Echelon Accelerates Enterprise Energy Management Momentum

Echelon Corporation announced broad support for Enterprise Energy Management solutions (EEM) based on Echelon’s technology. EEM encompasses multi-site energy management solutions that deliver cost savings and operational improvements to quick-service restaurants (QSR), schools, banks, retail and convenience stores, data centers and other locations. Based on Echelon’s LonWorks® control networking technology, and featuring the new i.LON® SmartServer... 

Constellation Energy’s Projects & Services Group to construct solar power system at Patriot Place

Wednesday, October 7th 2009
Constellation Energy's Projects & Services Group to construct solar power system at Patriot Place

Constellation Energy (NYSE:CEG) today announced that its subsidiary, Constellation Energy’s Projects & Services Group, will construct a photovoltaic power system that will generate approximately 525 kilowatts of clean, renewable solar power at Patriot Place, the 1.3-million-square-foot entertainment, retail and dining destination adjacent to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. The system will supply approximately 30 percent of Patriot Place’s... 

The Melbourne Convention Centre earn a ‘6-Star, Green-Star’

Sunday, September 6th 2009
The Melbourne Convention Centre earn a '6-Star, Green-Star'

In the highly competitive Business Events market, hundreds of cities around the world are vying to attract global attention and a larger slice of the meetings market. Melbourne, one of the World’s Most Livable Cities – according to The Economist – has found a way to not only be noticed, but to set a global benchmark. Responding to the international call for sustainability, the Australian city has opened the ‘greenest’ convention center in... 

Napa Valley’s Historic Bardessono Farmstead Morphs Into America’s Greenest Luxury Hotel

Friday, December 12th 2008
Napa Valley's Historic Bardessono Farmstead Morphs Into America's Greenest Luxury Hotel

Phil Sherburne, a pioneer in modern green development, will open his long-awaited Bardessono hotel, restaurant and spa in California’s famed Napa Valley during the first week of February. The 62-room luxury hotel with its 92-seat restaurant and bar is situated on the Bardessono family farmstead in the heart of historic Yountville. Sherburne, who was hand-picked by the Bardessonos to develop their six-acre property, promised an ecologically-friendly... 

Worlds Largest CIGS Thin-Film Solar Array Goes Live in Tucson, Arizona

Wednesday, December 3rd 2008

Global Solar Energy, a leading manufacturer of Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide (CIGS) thin-film solar cells, today announced the full operation of the largest solar electric array worldwide using CIGS photovoltaic (PV) technology. The 750-kilowatt (kW) system, located at Global Solar’s manufacturing facility in Tucson, is the first commercial-scale deployment of the company’s highly efficient CIGS thin-film solar technology and will help power... 

WPCS Announces $9 Million in New Contracts

Monday, November 24th 2008

WPCS International Incorporated a leader in design-build engineering services for specialty communication systems and wireless infrastructure, has announced that, through its subsidiaries, it has received approximately $9 million in new contracts. The contracts include projects to be completed for Iron Mountain, The Monmouth County Office of Emergency Management, YMCA, Group Health Tacoma, UPS, Girard College and CalPERS. In addition, WPCS was selected... 

Wight & Company Wins Seven Awards for Design, Engineering and Construction of Public Projects

Monday, November 24th 2008

Wight & Company, a leader in integrated architecture, engineering and construction solutions for the built environment, has won six awards for its public projects. These included Best Overall Project from Design Build Institute of America (DBIA); two “Project of the Year” awards from Midwest Construction magazine; and Excellence and Merit Awards from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Illinois (ACEC – Illinois). “It’s gratifying...