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Tetra Pak achieves 50% renewable electricity consumption

Tetra Pak’s factories in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and South Africa use electricity from 100% renewable sources.
July 11, 2018
Tetra Pak, Vernon Hills, Ill., now obtains half of its global electricity supply from renewable sources, putting the company on course to meet its RE100 commitment of using only renewable electricity across all global operations by 2030.
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Port of Long Beach receives zero-emissions equipment grant

The demonstration will include three cargo-moving vehicles known as “top handlers” with never-before-tested battery-electric systems.
July 10, 2018
The Port of Long Beach, Long Beach, Calif., will use a $5.3 million grant from the California Air Resources Board (CARB), Sacramento, Calif., to deploy hydrogen- and electric-powered cargo handling equipment at two shipping terminals.
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Land O'Lakes, Inc., California Bioenergy partner to advance "barn to biogas" in California

Land O'Lakes is uniquely positioned to tap into the potential power of California dairy farmers to generate renewable energy from farm waste.
July 5, 2018
Land O'Lakes, Inc., Arden Hills, Minn., and California Bioenergy, LLC (CalBio), Visalia, Calif., launched what is said to be a first-of-its-kind collaboration to support the financing, installation and management of on-farm methane digesters to generate renewable compressed natural gas (R-CNG) fuel in California, thus creating a farmer-led model for "barn to biogas."
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How to tackle power outages in the food, beverage industry

Geographically, the Top 5 states for outages were California, Texas, New York, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
John Lerch
June 29, 2018
Easy-to-install thermal energy storage technology can be employed to optimize energy savings day after day, while also making grocery stores more resilient during those critical times when they would normally be left in the dark.
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Fonterra develops reuse water program at milk powder manufacturing plant

Now, rather than irrigate the excess water, the new reclaimed water system treats the excess water via reverse osmosis and chlorination before combining it with the site’s main water supply for general use.
June 20, 2018
Fonterra, New Zealand, developed an innovative way to reuse water from condensation that’s produced during the milk powder manufacturing process at its Pahiatua plant.
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Sysco announces multi-site solar garden project

The solar garden sites total 25 megawatts of renewable energy generation and will support the majority of the company’s electricity load in Texas.
June 6, 2018
Sysco Corp., Houston, Texas, signed a 10-year renewable energy agreement with a subsidiary of NRG Energy, Inc., Houston, Texas, to construct three solar garden sites in the Houston and Dallas areas.
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Study: Renewable energy accounts for 70% of power-generating capacity in 2017

More than two-thirds of investments in power generation were in renewables in 2017.
June 4, 2018
Renewable power accounted for 70% of net additions to global power-generating capacity in 2017, what is said to be the largest increase in renewable power capacity in modern history, according to the Renewables 2018 Global Status Report (GSR) from REN21 (the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century), France.
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