When the lights went out in northern Mecklenburg County for nearly 24 hours starting early Monday, business owners and residents felt the inconvenience. That included The Knox Group, a family-operated real estate company in Huntersville. Although the outage caused by the explosion of a transformer in Cornelius didn’t cause Knox’s office to lose power, it [...]
If low-income people in Cabarrus County want to weatherize their homes for the winter, many will have to pay for it without government help. Cabarrus County commissioners have rejected $75,000 in federal funds to weatherize homes and lower power bills. The funds are part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and are intended to [...]
Trane completed a yearlong, $3.6 million Central Piedmont Community College construction project in late September to make improvements that will reduce energy usage by 20 percent. That’s according to Jeff Lowrance, CPCC’s spokesman. Trane is presenting CPCC with a Trane Energy Efficiency Leader Award Wednesday at Tate Hall in the Overcash Building, 1206 Elizabeth Ave. Trane is [...]
With its data center in Maiden kicking into high gear after the launch of the iCloud service in October, Apple is preparing a solar farm for supplemental power on part of its 170 acres off Startown Road. The 100-acre project is described in Catawba County permit filings as “Solar panel farm A.” Costs have not been disclosed, [...]
Two years ago, Dan McQueen had the idea of turning horse manure into a pile of cool cash. But York County’s zoning nearly turned his plan into a pile of something else. It took raising a stink, and nearly four months of working with the county’s planning department, but McQueen and his three partners were [...]
Construction could begin in October on a $500,000 solar panel installation at the Cabarrus Avenue West parking deck if the Concord City Council gives approval. That’s according to Erik Lensch, president of Charlotte-based Argand Energy Solutions. Lensch said private investor Stefan Gleason and the North Carolina Energy Office are funding the project, with Gleason investing [...]
LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — When the U.S. Department of Energy provided incentives for businesses installing solar panels in September, local solar contractors were sure it was going to lead to a substantial number of installation projects. But with the federal program set to expire and return to pre-September 2010 levels at the end of the [...]
Charlotte-based Babcock & Wilcox Co. said its subsidiary has been awarded a $26 million contract with Consumers Energy’s D.E. Karn power plant in Hampton Township, Mich. B&W’s Power Generation Group will design and supply two spray dry absorber systems for the plant. The systems, also known as dry scrubbers, will be used to reduce sulfur dioxide [...]
Charlotte-based Duke Energy Carolinas is considering having a minority interest in Santee Cooper’s 45 percent ownership of planned nuclear reactors at V.C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station in South Carolina. Duke has told the Public Service Commission of South Carolina that it has signed a letter of intent with Santee Cooper for an interest in 5 [...]
Decades’ worth of energy could be sealed up in shale in the piedmont of North Carolina. But Robert Hardison, president of Status Oilwells Inc. in Charlotte, doesn’t really care. Although some are calling for North Carolina to allow a controversial process known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” to harvest natural gas below the shale, Hardison [...]
