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NYT article highlights corporate energy strategy shift
With Apple recently joining Google and Wal-Mart in being granted federal approval to sell electricity into wholesale power markets, media coverage of corporate energy management appears to be reaching a fever pitch.
With help from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, data center energy use levels after years of rapid growth
Partially driven by the efforts of large tech companies to reduce the energy intensity of data centers, a new report has found that electric consumption from U.S. data centers plateaued in 2010.
Microsoft unveils pilot program for data center energy storage
Microsoft has teamed up with NRG Energy, Primus Power and others on a pilot program to advance energy storage at Microsoft's data centers across the globe.
Views from the top: Inside Microsoft's corporate energy strategy with Brian Janous
Microsoft's director of energy strategy talks about the company's shift away from renewable credits, the changing dynamic between C&I customers and their utilities and more.
New interactive map guides corporates through renewable power options by state
The World Resources Institute unveiled a new, interactive map that compares renewable power options by state; the tool is intended to help drive corporate adoption of clean energy.
Moving beyond RECs, Microsoft seeks more renewables for data centers
Microsoft is working to assure that more than 60% of the electricity used by its data centers will come directly from renewable energy by the early 2020s, up from the current 44%.
Kohl's breaks up tech giant club in new EPA rankings of largest green power users
Tech companies made up five of the top six slots on the U.S. EPA's most recent rankings of the largest green power users within its green power partnership program.
Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft support EPA's Clean Power Plan
Four heavyweight tech companies have made clear their support of the U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, which seeks to curb carbon emissions from existing power plants.
Microsoft announces public-private partnership to build 20-MW solar project
Microsoft, the Commonwealth of Virginia and Dominion Virginia Power entered into an agreement under which Dominion will construct the project.
Microsoft pilots underwater data centers
Microsoft is experimenting with siting data centers offshore under water in the ocean.
Switching your company to renewable energy? Read this first
The renewable energy opportunity for Fortune 1000 companies has never been better, but sourcing renewables doesn't come without risk.
Executives from top Microsoft, Johnson Controls, Vestas, and other firms join AEE board
Executives from some of the country's largest firms joined the Advanced Energy Economy's board of directors.
