Peet’s Coffee and Tea’s roasting plant in Alameda, California was granted a gold LEED certification by the US Green Building Council.
Peet’s designed the two biggest roasters to capture and reuse some of the heat that’s typically wasted during the roasting process. That managed to slash the company’s use of natural gas by a whopping 40 percent, according to Jim Grimes, the company’s vice president for operations.
The first turbine to generate ocean power for the UK’s first commercial wave power station is now in operation.
Inverness-based Wavegen plans to install 40 of the turbines off Siader on Lewis in the Western Isles.
It would produce enough power for 1,500 homes and create a much-needed breakwater for boats.
The Dry Lake Wind Project, one of of the first of its kind in Arizona, will be located 18 miles northwest of Snowflake.
Dry Lake’s Phase I will include approximately 30 wind turbines and is expected to generate up to 63 megawatts (MW) of electricity, depending on final turbine selection. Typically, a wind farm of this size can provide clean, renewable electricity to more than 15,000 typical homes. The estimated environmental benefits of the project will result in the annual offset of over 185 million pounds of carbon dioxide, which is equivalent to removing 15,000 cars from the road.
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