Report names top 20 U.S. company solar users

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Costco Wholesale and Kohl's Department stores the top 20 U.S. companies on the ground carry solar energy capacity, according a report by the solar energy industries Association (SEIA) and the vote solar initiative. Combined, the top 20 companies solar photovoltaic (PV) user installations, the total at least 279 megawatts, generating an estimated $47.3 million worth of electricity per year. SEIA and vote solar published the results on September 12.

The amount of solar installed by the top 20 solar-powered companies you could more than 46,500 average U.S. homes. Could a total U.S. commercial solar systems makes more than 390,000 American apartments. More than 700 individual PV systems have provided the companies analyzed for this report on their investments in at least 25 States and Puerto Rico. Is rounded out the list in order, are IKEA, Macy's, McGraw-Hill, Johnson & Johnson, Staples, Inc., Campbell Soup, Walgreens, bed bath & beyond, toys 'R' US, General Motors, FedEx, White Rose food, Dow Jones, Snyder's of Hanover, ProLogis, Hartz mountain industries and Crayola. Find the SEIA press release and the full report Web page.

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Department of energy building award better names finalists for the Federal Republic

Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of the eight finalists for the Department of energy honored first better building Federal.
Credit card: FEMP

The Department of energy announced a federal award eight finalists for the first annual better buildings on 30 May. This competition recognizes the Federal Government's most powerful buildings and challenges, the largest annual energy intensity to reduce the amount of energy consumed per square metre. The Federal Republic, which reached a one-year competition time wins the greatest energy savings.

The finalists representing a range of building types, sizes, and agency functions, were selected, based on past and current sustainability efforts that promote leadership to demonstrate and ongoing energy savings. You're building in Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, New Mexico, Texas, and West Virginia. In the selection of the finalists as the Department of federal energy management program (FEMP) energy efficiency improvement measures, which in the plant, best practices in energy management and building operations of the port facility employees, and institutional change programs, and other tools that were used to provide comprehensive sustainability efforts within the facility. From now until 30 September 2012, the selected finalists in a direct competition to achieve the largest reduction of energy intensity fiscal year 2012 compete. Award, see the better building and the Energy Department progress attention Web page.

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