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This column from Jack Griffin of SourceOne outlines the savings and reliability benefits of combined heat and power systems and offers recommendations for overcoming barriers to broader adoption among large energy users.

Helped by a restructuring of its energy programs, Eastman Chemical Co. has improved its energy intensity by 10.1% and reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 14% and has implemented a variety of programs to improve the environmental impact across its facilities.

A university in the U.K. recently implemented a biofuel combined heat and power plant focused on creating flexibility behind the meter, allowing customers to be more in control of how they use their own power, in what the team behind the project calls an “energy system of the future.”

Google signed a 225-MW power purchase agreement with renewable energy producer Invenergy Jan. 27 to help power Google's data centers.

A state of-the-art cogeneration plant will enable the development to generate its own electricity, hot water, heating, and cooling onsite, independent of the local electric grid.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance's Michael Liebreich anticipates corporations will continue pursuit of directly sourcing renewable energy to power their organizations.

BioHiTech America is running a pilot program that takes food waste from a high-volume supermarket located in New Jersey and converts it to energy.

Center for Resource Solutions digs into the U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan with an introduction to emission rate credits.