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North Carolina Gets Largest Solar Farm in Eastern U.S
North Carolina will be home to the biggest solar PV farm in the eastern states when local solar developer Strata gets approval for a 100 megawatt (MW) plant. Chapel Hill-based Strata Solar wants to start construction on the $250 million project late this year and complete it in 10 months. Located in Duplin County, it will cover [...]
Envision Solar Lands Contract for 2,300 Solar Trees
Envision Solar announced plans this week to install a forest of 2,300 of its Solar Trees at a property in North Carolina. “We’ve installed a couple hundred Solar Trees in our company history,” said Envision CEO Desmond Wheatley. “This is a major leap.” It’s a leap the company has been preparing to make. Over the [...]
Apple to Double Fuel Cell Capacity at N.C Data Center
Apple is doubling the number of fuel cells it will use to power its $1 billion data center in North Carolina, making it the largest non-utility fuel cell installation in the US. The company is having 50 fuel cells installed for a total of 10 megawatts (MW) of capacity. Apple’s announcement eclipses eBay’s, which will power its flagship data center 100% by fuel cells, and 30 [...]
Report: State Departments of Transportation Go Green
State departments of transportation across the country are successfully implementing a range of sustainable practices and programs, according to a new report by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ (AASHTO) Center for Environmental Excellence. “This report documents how state transportation departments, municipal planning organizations, and transit providers are putting into practice proven [...]
Revealed: Apple’s 100 Acre Dual Solar Farms
With a multi-billion dollar budget that keeps Apple afloat, it is no doubt the software giant’s ecological footprint is probably a big one. But the company is looking to ease that footprint when a massive solar farm in the U.S. goes online. New photos captured from the sky show that Apple’s sprawling solar farm, which [...]
Facebook Touts Data Center Water Efficiency
Most people know data centers use plenty of power, up to 2% of the world’s electricity and growing 12% each year. But their impact on water is much more murky. Against that backdrop, the giant social networking company is reporting new data about its water efficiency, starting with its data center in Prineville, Oregon. The [...]
Facebook Reveals Its Carbon Footprint
Data from Facebook, published on Wednesday, shows that despite the social networking’s rising star, its carbon emissions are still a fraction of internet rival Google. Facebook’s annual emissions were 285,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent in 2011, compared with Google’s 1.5m tons in 2010. [Guardian] The data, published on Wednesday, shows that despite the social [...]
Apple’s Fuel Cell Data Farm to be Powered by Landfills
We all know that Apple has promised that its North Carolina data center will be powered by 100 percent green energy. While we have heard the commitment before, here is the actual plan. Apple will use fuel cells to power the data center in North Carolina and while the fuel cells themselves will not be [...]
Bloom Energy Fuel Cells Coming to Apple’s NC Data Center
According to a filing, Apple’s 4.8 megawatt fuel cell farm in North Carolina will shortly witness the fuel cell installation close to the adjoining solar farm, which currently powers the N.C .data center. Bloom Energy is the company that will supply the fuel cells; is already providing servers to Apple’s Cupertino campus. This step is [...]