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Salesforce on track to being the cloud crm provider with the lowest carbon emissions

Salesforce on track to being the cloud crm provider with the lowest carbon emissions

By Tom Raftery on January 14, 2016

We have highlighted often enough what a poor job some cloud companies are doing of making their cloud infrastructure cleaner, and being transparent about their emissions. Against that backdrop, it is heartening to see some more enlightened cloud companies doing the right thing. Salesforce announced today its second renewable energy purchase agreement. The first announcement, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, power purchase agreements, ppas, Renewable energy, salesforce, vppas, wind energy

It is surprisingly easy to leave yourself open to claims of Greenwashing!

It is surprisingly easy to leave yourself open to claims of Greenwashing!

By Tom Raftery on May 10, 2010

Companies need to take a lot of care when making Green claims. The whole Green energy space is massively complex and it is surprisingly easy to leave yourself open to claims of Greenwashing. What do I mean? Well, take the Irish energy sector, for example. Anyone who generates electricity in Ireland, which is to be […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged electricity, greenwashing, Ireland, renewables, sem, single electricity market, Sustainable energy, wind energy, Wind power

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 04/09/2010

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 04/09/2010

By Tom Raftery on April 9, 2010

Iowa, Texas tops [US] in wind power efforts Iowa and Texas lead the nation in wind energy efforts, according to the annual report released Thursday from the American Wind Energy Association. Iowa claims the title for the state with the largest percentage of electricity from wind energy. As of the end of 2009, over 14 […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged climate group, coal, doe, EcoFactor, electricity, exxon mobil, General Electric, google, GreenNumbers, massey energy, mining, smart thermostat, wind energy, Wind power

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 02/05/2010

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 02/05/2010

By Tom Raftery on February 5, 2010

Photo credit arekiiu
Here is this week’s Friday Green numbers round-up:

Scant Arctic ice could mean summer double whammy | Reuters
Scant ice over the Arctic Sea this winter could mean a “double whammy” of powerful ice-melt next summer
tags: greennumbers, arctic sea ice, arctic ice, ice melt

Tibet temperatures hit record high in 2009 | Reuters
Temperatures in Tibet […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged antarctic, arctic sea, ernest shackleton, extinction, global warming, GreenNumbers, Nuclear power, nuclear power plant, tibet, transportation, TreeHugger, tritium, wind energy

Friday’s Green Numbers round-up 01/15/2010

Friday’s Green Numbers round-up 01/15/2010

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

Google Energy to start disrupting the utility industry?

Google Energy to start disrupting the utility industry?

By Tom Raftery on January 10, 2010

Photo credit filippo minelli
There is no doubt about it but Google is a disruptive company.
First Google disrupted search, then advertising, then video (with their acquisition of YouTube), and then Office applications with the launch and continued development of Google Apps for Domains. Most recently Google has disrupted the mobile phone industry, first with the […]

Posted in Business | Tagged ferc, geothermal, google, google energy, google powermeter, gphone, nexus one, Renewable energy, smart grid, solar energy, utilities, wind energy | 3 Responses

Spain gets 53% of its energy from wind!

Spain gets 53% of its energy from wind!

By Tom Raftery on November 14, 2009

Ok, not all the time, but last weekend at 5:50am on Sunday morning (8th Nov) Spain set a new record, hitting 53.7% of its energy requirements being supplied by wind energy.
As you can see from the graph above, the amount of electricity being supplied by wind, the light green portion of the graph, doesn’t […]

Posted in Business | Tagged coal, Red Electrica de España, ree, renewables, wind energy, windfarms

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