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Cities Are Making Big Climate Promises. Keeping Them Can Be Tough

Molly Samuel, NPR Summary Two years ago, Atlanta was widely lauded when it committed to have all homes, businesses and city operations rely largely on renewable energy in coming decades. It was part of a wave of cities responding to more intense flooding, heat and storms, and setting...

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Emory receives prestigious national campus sustainability award

Megan McRainey, Emory Report Summary Emory University has received a 2018 Campus Sustainability Achievement Award from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). The university was recognized for its innovative teaching and student docent programs...

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Guaranteed Energy Savings Performance Project at Georgia Tech

Summary Georgia Tech was selected by the BOR as one of the two process test cases for Performance Contracting. Presentation will outline and discuss the process and experiences of the Guaranteed Energy Savings Performance Contract project and process followed at Georgia Tech. Learning...

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Amazon picks 20 finalists for its second headquarters

Kaya Yurieff, CNN Tech Summary But the list isn't exactly short. The 20 potential cities are Atlanta; Austin; Boston; Chicago; Columbus, Ohio; Dallas; Denver; Indianapolis; Los Angeles; Miami; Montgomery County, Maryland; Nashville; Newark; New York City; Northern Virginia;...

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Regulators Want to Know If Georgia Power Considered a Microgrid for the Atlanta Airport

Eilsa Wood, Microgrid Knowledge Summary State regulators want to know if Georgia Power had considered a microgrid “for such a critical customer” as the Atlanta airport before this week’s 11-hour electrical outage. The question was among a series that the staff of the Georgia Public...

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Atlanta Airport Demonstrates Need for Combined Heat & Power (CHP) Microgrid

Rob Thornton, IDEA The recent power outage and grid failure affecting Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, one of the world’s busiest airports, vividly demonstrates the importance of reliable and resilient energy supply for mission-critical facilities. Even with redundant...

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Georgia Institute of Technology: 10th Street Chiller Addition

Speakers Greg Spiro, Georgia Tech University Vance Nall & Greg Carnathan, RMF Engineers #CampusEnergyConference #2014 #ConferenceProceeding #ConstructionandCommissioning #GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology #Georgia #RMFEngineering #Atlanta

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Water Savings Using the Thermosyphon Cooler Hybrid Heat Rejection System: Case Studies from Atlanta, Phoenix, Seattle and Boston

Speakers Thomas Carter, Johnson Controls #ConferenceProceeding #CampusEnergyConference #2014 #JohnsonControls #Atlanta #Georgia #Phoenix #Arizona #BostonCambridge #Massachusetts #Seattle #Washington #EvaporativeCooling #WaterConservation

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Turning Penalties into Profits with Precision Control

Speakers Rob Trickett, Flow Control Industries #Atlanta #FlowControlIndustries #MasterPlanningandSystemDesign #DistrictCooling #AtlanticStation #2016 #NorthAmerica #Georgia #ConferenceProceeding #CoolingConference

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