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California utility San Diego Gas & Electric has recognized a series of its commercial and industrial customers it says are leading the way in implementing innovative solutions to reducing their energy use.

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. 

H5 Data Centers was recently recognized by its utility for its deployment of $15 million energy efficiency and infrastructure improvement upgrades at its Denver data center campus.

MGM Resorts International was recognized for its application of fault detection and diagnostics software across its portfolio of nine properties, representing 38 million square feet.

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.

While achieving energy saving targets can be relative straightforward initially, finding new savings gets increasingly harder. One underutilized approach is to get all of your organization's employees involved in identifying and achieving energy savings opportunities.

Based on a 25-point jump from the last edition of the scorecard in 2015, Los Angeles was the most-improved city.

Multinational clothing retail company H&M and U.S.-based LED lighting manufacturer Cree have become the latest members of EP100, committing to bold energy productivity improvements.

This profile, presented by Johnson Controls, goes behind the scenes on the development and deployment of a new central energy facility at Stanford University that is expected to save the campus $420 million in operational costs.