Take A Virtual Tour of Suntech’s Global HQ
Suntech is dedicated to expanding solar energy worldwide, and what better place to start than our very own global headquarters? Because 80% of the building’s power needs are met by solar, the...
View ArticleGoogle Installs Green Roofs at HQ Expansion
Google is expanding its already massive headquarters by over a million square feet and one of the new design elements is a green roof. Working with Seattle-based design firm, NBBJ, the 42 acre...
View ArticleFacebook Slaps Massive Green Roof on New HQ
Facebook has the green light from Menlo Park’s city council to build a huge second campus that connects to its headquarters in Silicon Valley. The company says its new 433,555-square-foot building will...
View ArticleStaples Global HQ Goes Solar
Staples has quietly been adding solar across it locations without much fanfare. Today, they announced they have impressive 14 megawatts (MW) in total, including the 685 kilowatt (kW) system that just...
View ArticleBosch’s Safer PV Technology
First off, solar systems aren’t killers, but in certain—very unusal situations, they can be lethal. Once a PV module is connected to wiring, it’s outputting electricity when light hits it, and when the...
View ArticleWill Apple’s New Spaceship Campus Have the Biggest Solar Array in U.S?
Apple unveiled its plans yesterday for its new striking headquarters campus in Cupertino, California. “I want to leave a signature campus that expresses the values of the company for generations,”...
View ArticleAdobe Orders More Bloom Boxes @ HQ
Earlier this week Adobe announced that it had added another 400 kilowatts of Bloom Energy fuel cells to its current fleet of Bloom Boxes. I spoke with Mike Bangs, Adobe’s Director of Global Facilities,...
View ArticleeBay Goes Solar in Utah
In the spring of 2010 eBay opened Topaz, the first wholly-owned data center in South Jordan, Utah (which was awarded LEED® Gold status by the US Green Building Council). Since then eBay has continued...
View Article58% of Bloomberg HQ Powered by Solar
Bloomberg’s headquarters in New Jersey now has a 1.8 megawatt (MW) solar system, providing 58% of the electricity for the 100,000-square-foot building. The ground-mounted solar array covers eight acres...
View ArticleeBay’s New Data Center: 100% Powered by Bloom Fuel Cells
eBay announced it will power its flagship data center with renewable energy as its primary power source, the first company to do so. The company is building the largest non-utility fuel cell...
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Apple’s New Spaceship Campus
It could be Steve Jobs’ greatest legacy, or his biggest donut. The usually energetic founder of Apple looked frail and weak, as he made his initial presentation to Cupertino’s city council seeking...
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