renewable energy

Conagra Brands Recognizes Winners of Employee-Led Sustainability Awards Program

Employee conservation initiatives generate nearly $30 million in company savings.

June 29, 2020

Conagra Brands announced the winners of its annual Sustainable Development Awards, celebrating the company's commitment to sustainability. Conagra's awards program encourages employees from across its organization to develop, implement and submit for consideration sustainability-focused initiatives which conserve water, reduce waste and save energy.

Solar and Wind Strategies for Renewable and Sustainable Energy

How Taylor Farms foresaw solar and wind as the path to its energy independence.

Michael Costa

March 12, 2020

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Taylor Farms started investing in renewable, alternative energy back in 2012. The brand is currently seeing a positive payoff for its year-over-year efforts in both cost savings and recognition as a green energy leader in the industry.

EDP Renewables, ConnectGen acquire first 3 solar projects

All three projects are scheduled to achieve substantial completion by the end of the fourth quarter of 2019.

December 18, 2019

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First Solar, Inc., Tempe, Ariz., in partnership with EDP Renewables, Houston, Texas, and ConnectGen, Houston, Texas, completed the acquisition of three projects with a total nameplate design of 278 megawatts (MW) in the United States.

Top 5 trends in 2020

Time to ring in the New Year with new ideas, new technologies, new product developments and new ways of doing business.

Marina Mayer

December 16, 2019

Editor-in-chief Marina Mayer forecasts the Top 5 trends set to take over the cold food and beverage industry in 2020.

Austin Technology Incubator partners with new Geothermal Entrepreneurship Organization to develop new sources of CO2-free energy

The GEO will foster an entrepreneurial ecosysytem in tandem with focused research, so that new tools can make it to market efficiently and industry can start making progress quickly.

December 12, 2019

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The Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), Austin, Texas, is a partner in a new $1 million initiative to spur geothermal innovation and commercialization that could lead to vast new sources of clean, CO2-free energy.

ReposiTrak moves into new data center to elevate information technology

The new data center provides enhanced security and uses renewable energy with standby power for continuous runtime.

December 5, 2019

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ReposiTrak Inc. moved its data center operations from Salt Lake City, Utah, to a new facility in Las Vegas to enhance security and provide additional capacity for anticipated growth.

Albert Straus, BMW Group collaborate to develop cow-powered electric cars

This collaboration uses biogas to create electricity that can charge electric cars.

November 20, 2019

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Albert Straus, founder and CEO of Straus Family Creamery, Petaluma, Calif., collaborated with BMW Group, Germany, to make low carbon charging available for BMW’s electric vehicle (EV) customers in California.

Approaches to solar energy procurement

There are many viable options for businesses to go solar. Explore ideas of how a mix of these approaches, combined with energy efficiency and other measures, can help make your business more renewably powered.

Stanley Minnick

November 14, 2019

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From renewable natural gas infrastructure to improving zero-waste-to-landfill standard, find out the steps Organic Valley took to become 100% renewably powered.

How to integrate renewable energy into your business

Renewable energy projects demonstrate that sustainability and profitability are not mutually exclusive.

Kraig Westerbeek

November 14, 2019

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From renewable natural gas infrastructure to improving zero-waste-to-landfill standard, find out how Smithfield Foods is in position to meet its goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 25% by 2025.