In Spring 2002, Alameda County successfully completed the fourth largest solar electric system in the world atop the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California. The Santa Rita Jail is the largest energy user of Alameda County's government buildings. This solar installation, the nation's largest rooftop system, was commissioned to help...
This case study describes about solar systems deployed by Johnson & Johnson. Johnson & Johnson, pleased with the performance of its solar systems at Neutrogena in California and PSGA/Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals in Pennsylvania, decided to deploy a new solar electric system at the Cordis facility. Cordis Corporation, the world's leading developer...
The Mauna Lani is located on the Kohala Coast of Hawaii, an island where electrical power is generated primarily by burning diesel fuel. Owing to its location, Hawaii is confronted with electricity rates that are among the highest in the United States. Since the mid-1990s, executives at the Mauna Lani...
Founded in 1850, Solano County has been at the forefront of local governments championing renewable energy and conservation. Since the 1980s, Solano County has undertaken numerous energy efficiency projects, as well as installed its own combined heat and power system at its Fairfield campus. Nevertheless, the County continued to face...
Located in Butte County, California, the city of Chico was founded in 1860 by General John Bidwell. Chico maintains an historic downtown, a wide variety of services and family oriented neighborhoods. Inspired by the growing number of California cities and counties that have successfully embraced solar power, Chico lawmakers and...
Vacaville, California is located in northern Solano County, midway between San Francisco and Sacramento. Historic Vacaville has long been at the forefront of communities championing renewable energy and conservation, from solar power to clean air vehicles. Vacaville's mission is to understand and balance their citizens' needs, desires and resources to...
Beautiful historic Vallejo has long been at the forefront of communities championing renewable energy and conservation, from solar and wind power, to clean air vehicles. Vallejo, always interested in deploying reliable renewable resources and energy conservation techniques, needed a cost-effective solution to reduce the operating costs associated with running the...
Connecticut Transit CTTRANSIT is the Connecticut Department of Transportation-owned bus service, serving the greater Hartford, New Haven, Stamford, Waterbury, New Britain, Meriden, Bristol and Wallingford areas. CTTRANSIT wanted to showcase how clean, renewable solar energy could be deployed to power the Hartford Maintenance facility. The solar generation project was made...
The need for sustainable design and energy conservation in California has become increasingly important. As progressive agencies, the Department of General Services and the Franchise Tax Board sought ways to use renewable energy sources to satisfy their energy needs, implement the Blue Print and meet the Executive Order's goals. After...
Incorporated in 1856, San Mateo County has been at the forefront of communities championing renewable energy and conservation. In 1998, a State audit concluded that local crime laboratories required improvements to bring them up to standards. The decision was made to move San Mateo's Forensics Lab and Coroner's Office to...
Located in Hopland, California, Fetzer Vineyards is Mendocino County's largest producer of quality wines. Fetzer Vineyards decided to push their sustainable business practices to the next level by purchasing 100% renewable energy for all of their winery and visitor center operations. Generating their own renewable energy with a PowerLight solar...
Under Governor George Pataki, the Long Island Power Authority LIPA launched the Clean Energy Initiative to promote the development and use of renewable energy technologies such as solar and wind generation. Fala Direct Marketing, one of the nation's largest privately held direct marketing companies, chose to install an on-site solar...
The Automobile Club of Southern California, the largest AAA affiliate, has served members since 1900. Executives at the Auto Club have been looking for ways of reducing their energy dependency ? especially, that of volatile fossil-fuel-generated energy - while simultaneously lowering the daily operating costs of their headquarters complex. The...
Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, a member of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies, was formed by the 1993 merger of Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation and McNeil Pharmaceutical. Following the tremendous success of the solar power installation at Neutrogena headquarters in Los Angeles, California, Johnson & Johnson continues to heed the challenge of...
Since 1776, the United States Postal Service has been the gateway to the household - binding friends, families, and neighbors together. The Postal Service needed a cost-effective solution to operate more energy-efficient facilities. They also needed to support the President's initiative to reduce federal energy consumption by ten percent. Installing...
The Media and Technology Charter High School MATCH prepares disadvantaged urban Boston students to attend and excel in college and beyond - including and especially those students who have not been led to expect a university education. The MATCH School wanted to demonstrate that clean, renewable energy could be well...
Berkeley is the oldest of the UC campuses and serves as the flagship of California's public university system. The Associated Students of the University of California ASUC wanted to deploy a renewable energy system, but needed a way to finance it. In a virtually unanimous vote, the students and Graduate...
The following document is submitted as a subset of an overall plan for conservation, energy efficiency and renewables. The proposed guidelines, strategies and actions should become part of a concerted effort by the State to help alleviate the current energy crisis by establishing a long term, comprehensive strategy to improve...
