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Weekly Clean Energy Roundup:October 27, 2004

News and EventsPresident Bush Signs New Energy Tax Incentives Into Law GE Energy Receives $1.3 Billion in U.S. Wind Turbine Orders Connecticut Clean Energy Fund to Jump-Start Renewable Projects BP Solar to Boost U.S. Production of Solar Cells and Modules New BLM Policy Encourages Solar Power on Public Lands Schwarzenegger Opens Hydrogen Fueling Station at L.A. Airport Site NewsEPA Launches Heat Island Effect Web Site Energy ConnectionsIEA: World Energy Demand May Increase 59 Percent by 2030 News and EventsPresident Bush Signs New Energy Tax Incentives Into LawPresident Bush signed H.R. 4520, the “American Jobs Creation Act of 2004,” into law on Friday. The new law creates and extends a number of energy-related tax credits, including an expansion of the renewable energy production tax credit. This credit formerly applied only to wind energy and some biomass energy projects, but Section 710 of the law now expands the credit to a wide range of biomass, geothermal, and solar energy projects, as well as hydropower produced from small irrigation projects. The tax credit applies to facilities placed in service before the end of next year.The bill’s Title III also extends the tax credit for ethanol through 2010 and creates a new tax credit […]

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North America's Largest Printer Gets FSC Certified

RR Donnelley & Sons Company facilities in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, have earned Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain-of-Custody certification (SCSCOC-00648). Scientific Certification Systems (SCS) conducted the certification. Now RR Donnelley (NYSE:RRD) customers who use FSC-certified paper can use the FSC-trademarked logo in their magazines, catalogs and other printed materials to demonstrate their commitment to the environment. “RR Donnelley has a long history of pursuing practices that help us and our customers in our respective sustainability efforts,” said John Paloian, President, RR Donnelley Group Publishing and Retail Services. “We were able quickly and easily to obtain the FSC certification due to the strength of our supply chain management practices – especially those related to paper procurement and to paper and product tracking capabilities in our plants. A chain-of-custody certification, like FSC’s, is an expansion of those efforts. To continue meeting our customers’ needs, we intend to leverage our manufacturing and environmental expertise and pursue other sustainable forestry management certifications around the globe. We seek to provide our customers with the industry’s best products and services, and to work with them to protect and improve the environment.”The use of paper from sustainably managed forests is important to many of their […]

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Hot Green Companies that Use Recycled Materials

Hot LogsHot Logs, located in Oroville, California, has been in business only two years but is growing rapidly. The company makes fire logs from old waxed corrugated boxes. Much of the feedstock comes from local manufacturers like Holiday Markets and Raleys or from packing plants that receive fruits and vegetables in waxed boxes. The logs are quick and easy to light, are nontoxic and burn cleaner than most firewoods. They generate 40 percent more heat than other manufactured firelogs. Best of all, there is now a “realistic way to reuse waxed boxes” – material that is difficult to recycle, and often ends up in landfills.Mike Decker, VP Operations explains that wax is paraffin, safe for fireplaces and wood stoves. “We cut the boxes and chip the wax. Then it goes into a dryer. What comes out are pieces of cardboard and wax” that can be molded into fire logs or sold loose as fire starter. The company uses a trailer tractor load of old boxes a day – 8000 logs – and is looking to substantially expand over the next year. Decker hopes to open a plant in Georgia and is scouting locations in the San Francisco Bay area as […]

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