Tag Archives: wine
Kendall Jackson Winery Gets Drunk on Solar Power
U.S. Congressman Mike Thompson and local business leaders convened today at Kendall-Jackson’s Wine Center to celebrate the company’s commitment to sustainability and unveil the solar cogeneration system, now supplying solar hot water and electricity to power the winery’s extensive tank and bottle washing operations.“Our founder Jess Jackson was a trailblazer who made sustainability a core [...]
California’s Wine Country: Harvesting Sunlight
After our wedding last February, my wife and I explored our individual interests mutually during our honeymoon. For her it was wine; for me solar. Not surprisingly, she’s the more fun one in our relationship. Over the course of several days in Napa and Sonoma, we drank countless wines and learned a lot about making [...]
Solar Eco-Wine Pavilion by Michael Jantzen
The Eco-Wine Pavilion by eco-minded designer and architect Michael Jantzenis a structure envisioned for use in a temperate climate at a wineryand functions as a wine tasting center or provides space for specialevents. The pavilion is a design proposal that explores ways tointegrate alternative energy gathering and storage systems intocommercial architecture in a new and [...]
Sunday Energy and Carmey Avdat Winery Helping Produce Israel’s First Solar Powered Wine
Green Prophet has already reported on Kibbutz Tzuba switching to wine production because of the decreased water needs of grapes. Now Israeli wine is going even greener, with solar power. This past Monday, Sunday Energy Ltd.(Isra’el’s leading solar energy service provider) announced that it hadcompleted installing a 50 kW Peak solar system on the roof [...]