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With the addition of a third site, located in Bay City, Mich., running entirely on wind energy, one-third of SC Johnson's global energy usage now comes from renewable energy sources.

The U.S. Department of the Navy and Indiana Gov. Suzanne Crouch recently celebrated the opening of a new, 17-MW solar power plant in southwestern Indiana at the Naval Support Activity Crane that will increase the resiliency of its operations.

Keystone Adjustable Cap Co. recently completed the installation of a 271 kW roof-mounted solar energy system at its facility in Pennsauken, N.J.

Tyler Technologies is working to become the first company in North Texas to have a commercial solar-plus-storage project.

Global cosmetics company L'Oreal recently announced it signed a deal with Paris-based Suez Environnement SA for continuous improvement of environmental performance and optimization of resource management throughout its value chain.

The LEGO Group on May 17 announced it had reached its goal of using 100% renewable energy to power its business.

The third edition of this report from Ceres, the World Wildlife Fund, Calvert Research and Management and CDP features breakout case studies on how some of the largest U.S. companies, including Facebook, IBM, Praxair and Target, are steadily increasing their clean energy and energy efficiency efforts while improving their bottom lines. 

Citing growing demand from large energy users for access to clean energy options, Michigan utility Consumers Energy has proposed a program to allow companies to match their load to renewable energy sources.

The world's largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev, just recently committed to 100% renewable energy and made its first wind power purchase agreement, but its efforts in energy efficiency are more than a decade in the making.