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Chicago recently completed an overhaul of its city streetlights and converted 200,000 lights to LED, a move that is expected to reduce city electrical costs by $100 million during the first 10 years.

Over the past 10 extraordinary years, the United States has fundamentally overhauled how it produces, delivers and consumes energy. The 2020 edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook – produced for the Business Council for Sustainable Energy by BloombergNEF – looks at the U.S. energy transformation of the past decade (2010 – 2019).

The U.S. Navy announced Feb. 12 that it has awarded $58 million to implement an energy resiliency project at its Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, which will feature on-site generation, battery storage and microgrid controls.

All new or substantially rehabilitated buildings owned by the City of Los Angeles will be 100% carbon-free under a new initiative announced Feb. 10 by Mayor Eric Garcetti.

SJW Group, a California water and wastewater utility, is aiming to purchase 100% carbon-free power by the end of 2021, which is expected to save 4,682 tons of CO2 from 2019, and complete the installation of on-site solar, according to their newly rel

A new report published by BloombergNEF Feb. 11 found that greenhouse gas emissions could be reduce by 60% between 2020 and 2050 through the electrification of the transport, buildings and industrial sectors in Europe.

Claremont Club & Spa in the San Francisco Bay Area expects to see more than $300,000 in energy cost savings through a project to improve the hotel's energy efficiency.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced Feb. 10 that will be allocating $74 million for 63 projects to research, develop and test energy-efficient building practices, awarded to institutions such as National Laboratories, universities, small business

A Connecticut-based real estate company has successfully completed energy efficiency and renewable energy projects across its portfolio of offices and independent living and multi-family apartment complexes.

Tempur Sealy International announced Feb. 10 that its largest mattress manufacturing facility, located in Albuquerque, N.M., will be receiving locally-generated renewable energy that will reduce the amount of electricity purchased from the public utility by approximately 2 million kWh.