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The Current System of Electric Billing No Longer Makes Sense

GreenTechMedia

Dan Seif is vice president for market development at 7X Energy, a Texas-based solar developer. Let’s stop pretending that we’re paying for “energy” via our home power bills and understand that we’re mainly paying for infrastructure.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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Bush Brothers counts on water reuse to reduce local impact of bean production

GreenBiz

The company is also better equipped to tightly control its water usage, according to Evoqua. . Bush Brothers, a family-owned business, has been operating in the small community of Chestnut Hill, Tennessee, for over 110 years. Water, specifically, stopped being an afterthought for Bush Brothers after the 2007 drought in Chestnut Hill.

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GHG Protocol: Scope 2 Emissions Explained

Green Business Bureau

In our previous article, titled Scope 1 2 3 Emissions Explained: Understanding the GHG Protocol’s Emission Classification System , we defined scope 1 emissions, scope 2 emissions, and scope 3 emissions as follows: Scope 1 emissions are GHGs released directly from a business. What are business scope 2 emissions?

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Steps taken by Government of India in Promoting Energy Efficient Buildings

Econaur

Energy Efficiency in Buildings. With the current rate of urbanization and the subsequent increase in energy demand, energy efficiency in buildings has a significant role to play in contributing to energy security in developing countries. In conventional Indian buildings, energy consumption is 200 kWh per sq.

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Retailers can capitalize on energy management and see ROI as high as 30 percent

Renewable Energy World

An energy-efficient facility is the product of an energy-efficient design and a successful, energy-efficient design should be based on three fundamental philosophies: Use only the most appropriate energy-consuming equipment.? Not surprisingly, the company was experiencing rising energy costs.

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EDC celebrates 40th anniversary of Tongonan geothermal field, Philippines

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Energy Development Corporation (EDC) recently celebrated the 40th year anniversary of the Tongonan geothermal power plant in the Leyte geothermal field of the Philippines. After several years of intensive exploration and development work, the Tongonan-1 geothermal power plant was inaugurated on July 02, 1983.