Green Energy Act powers Ontario firm

Green Energy Act powers Ontario firm
 Published on Monday August 20, 2012 John Spears Business Reporter

An Ontario solar energy firm is growing southward, and says Ontario’s controversial Green Energy Act gets much of the credit.
Toronto-based Pure Energies Group has bought San Francisco-based One Block Off the Grid to develop new markets in the U.S.

Facebook commits to 25% clean energy use

Social network reveals carbon emission data and commits to cleaner energy

ByMark SuttonPublished August 2, 2012

Facebook has announced that it plans to gain 25% of the energy it uses for its operations from clean, renewable energy sources by 2015.
The company revealed the energy target, along with its current energy usage and profile in a blog post yesterday.
In line with many web companies, Facebook is consuming very large amounts of energy in its data centres, as it expands facilities to meet user demand. Data centres account for around 1.3% of global power consumption, around 31GW in 2011, and companies are coming under pressure to commit to cleaner energy sources.

Grits’ green pledges unkept

Grits’ green pledges unkept

By Debora Van Brenk, The London Free Press June 5, 2012 8:06pm

Ontario’s environmental commissioner is slamming the provincial Liberals for reneging on key conservation promises they made in the Green Energy Act.

The province gets a grade of “incomplete” for failing to enact mandatory home energy audits, failing to introduce appliance standards and failing to ban incandescent bulbs — all conservation pledges it made three years ago, Gord Miller said.