By Tom Raftery on September 1, 2010
Photo of before and after installation of Digital Lumens lighting system in Maines Paper & Food Service courtesy of Digital Lumens. Digital Lumens reduced the cost of lighting for their first customer by 87%. Digital Lumens specialise in high-bay lighting for warehouses, cold storage facilities, and manufacturing plants. This is a mostly invisible but very […]
Posted in Business, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Compact fluorescent lamp, digital lumens, energy efficiency, led, LED lamp, led lighting, Light-emitting diode, Lighting, maines
By Tom Raftery on January 15, 2010
Photo credit arekiiu
Here is today’s Friday Green numbers round-up:
TVA purchasing up to 815MW wind power from Kansas and Illinois
TVA has inked four deals to purchase wind power generated in Illinois and Kansas.
The federal utility said today that the contracts will allow it to purchase up to 815 megawatts of renewable wind energy, and will […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged bev, cfl, doe, electric vehicle, GreenNumbers, led, Natural gas, new york, oil, phev, Renewable energy, scotland, t boone pickens, tva, wind energy, Wind power
By Jeff Nolan on January 5, 2010
– The Merc takes a look at the diminished luster of stock options for compensation. There’s two things here, the first being that between AMT and option accounting rule changes the attractiveness of options for employees and employers has taken a big hit. Most people in Silicon Valley, and the tech industry more broadly, understand […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Bono, California, China, compensation, Energy, High-speed rail, led, MIT, Nuclear power, robotics, San Francisco Bay Area, stock options, thorium fuel