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Ernst & Young (EY) will be carbon neutral by the end of 2020, according to an announcement made Jan. 30.

State Fund, a California-based workers' compensation insurance company, will be building solar panels, energy storage systems and electric vehicle charging stations at seven different locations in the state thanks to a new agreement announced Feb. 20

Comcast is expecting to save approximate 272 metric of CO2 annually through a 760-panel rooftop solar installation that they recently completed at their multi-purpose facility in Washington, D.C.

Widespread adoption of medium and heavy-duty electric vehicles (EV) is beginning to take root. However, Shashank Sane, SVP at Invenergy warns in this expert column, if a business really wants to meet its sustainability goals with an EV fleet while meeting its business obligations, managers need to think beyond just adding chargers and put into place a truly resilient charging infrastructure.

Chicago recently completed an overhaul of its city streetlights and converted 200,000 lights to LED, a move that is expected to reduce city electrical costs by $100 million during the first 10 years.

Over the past 10 extraordinary years, the United States has fundamentally overhauled how it produces, delivers and consumes energy. The 2020 edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook – produced for the Business Council for Sustainable Energy by BloombergNEF – looks at the U.S. energy transformation of the past decade (2010 – 2019).

The U.S. Navy announced Feb. 12 that it has awarded $58 million to implement an energy resiliency project at its Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, which will feature on-site generation, battery storage and microgrid controls.

All new or substantially rehabilitated buildings owned by the City of Los Angeles will be 100% carbon-free under a new initiative announced Feb. 10 by Mayor Eric Garcetti.

SJW Group, a California water and wastewater utility, is aiming to purchase 100% carbon-free power by the end of 2021, which is expected to save 4,682 tons of CO2 from 2019, and complete the installation of on-site solar, according to their newly rel

A new report published by BloombergNEF Feb. 11 found that greenhouse gas emissions could be reduce by 60% between 2020 and 2050 through the electrification of the transport, buildings and industrial sectors in Europe.