John K. Borchardt (April 2012)
TransCanada Corp.’s 1,661-mile Keystone XL pipeline would carry oil from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast and Midwest. The pipeline would provide an outlet for growing Canadian crude oil production, enabling the United States to replace Venezuelan crude oil with oil from a more secure source.
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Beth Mattson-Teig (April 2012)
A shakeout in the solar industry is expected to create widespread consolidation.
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Terry Mocherniak, Director of Global Business Development, OSRAM SYLVANIA (April 2012)
As lighting regularly accounts for nearly 40 percent of a commercial building’s electricity consumption, it serves as a prime target in energy efficiency and operating costs reduction efforts.
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Ed McCallum, Senior Principal, McCallum Sweeney Consulting (April 2012)
Renewable energy companies considering investment locations should look for areas that are supportive of the industry in terms of an RPS, site readiness, and the presence of suppliers.
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American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) (4/11/2012)
During the last few years the industrial sector, primarily public utilities, discovered that exploring energy efficiency programs is one of the smartest and most cost effective investments that can be made, a report by the American Council For An Energy-Efficient Economy, called Money Well Spent: 2010 Industrial Energy Efficiency Program Spending, concluded.
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Area Development Magazine Special Presentation (Winter 2012)
Survey results reflect a sense of cautious optimism for longer-range economic recovery, an awareness of the need to address the nation’s work force skills gap, as well as increased plans for relocation in order to alleviate onerous tax and regulatory burdens.
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Steve Stackhouse (Winter 2012)
A community’s economy is only as healthy as its local industries. Likewise, local businesses fare best in an economically healthy community. Cities served by publicly owned utilities have an ally fighting on both fronts.
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Don McDougall, Director, Engineered Tax Services (2012 Directory)
The new tax codes make the decision to relight a facility an easy — and profitable — one!
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John K. Borchardt (2012 Directory)
Solar panel manufacturers are taking advantage of empty warehouse buildings leftover from the recession to reduce the cost of opening additional production facilities.
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Robert Owens, Co-founder and President, O,R&L Integrated Real Estate Services (2012 Directory)
With the impact of the current economic climate on commercial real estate, it’s becoming essential for businesses to focus on developing energy-efficient strategies in the utilization of natural resources.
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Mark Crawford (Location USA 2012)
Foreign companies are finding plenty of opportunities to invest in manufacturing across the country, including steel fabrication, advanced materials, information systems, semiconductors and electronics, alternative energy, chemicals and plastics, heavy equipment, appliances, and rubber products.
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Mark Crawford (Location USA 2012)
Across the United States alternative energy is a rapidly growing field; with federal support for green technology, more stringent environmental controls, the high cost of fuel, America’s reputation for innovative R&D, and receptive consumer markets, a number of foreign companies are locating operations here.
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Joe Chisholm, Northwest Territory Service Solutions Leader, Trane (November 2011)
While many new buildings are being designed using high-performance building principles, the greatest potential lies in applying this proven approach to improve the performance of existing facilities.
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Reginald D. Cook, Vice President, Business Development, National Energy Services (a Johnson Controls company) (November 2011)
In the world of industrial energy, where cost is the driving force, lighting efficiency is an obvious solution that must not be overlooked.
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Mali R. Schantz-Feld (November 2011)
Energy availability and costs was ranked in ninth place in Area Development’s 25th Annual Corporate Survey, with 82.1 percent of the respondents rating this factor as very important or important.
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John K. Borchardt (November 2011)
Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) and horizontal wells now make it possible to economically produce natural gas from low permeability shale rock, greatly increasing natural gas supplies while reducing prices.
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Dr. Don McLean, Founder and CEO, Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) (November 2011)
Building performance analysis must be quantified and incorporated into the design process right from the earliest architectural stages.
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Terrill Laughton, Johnson Controls (Fall 2011)
DR has clearly emerged as an early example of “smart grid” enabling technology, empowering electricity users to reduce consumption — and get paid — for responding to grid emergencies or market-price events.
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Michael Turner, CEO and Forensic Architect, Cognitio Consulting (Fall 2011)
Although applying green technology is important to a building’s sustainability, components must be correctly designed and installed in order to maximize performance and building economy.
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Joe Langan, President and CEO, Langan Energy Solutions (Fall 2011)
Office buildings consume an enormous portion of our national energy production, impacting both the environment and company pocketbooks. It is time that office-building owners begin to explore solar system options.
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