United States: HP Pledges To Double Renewable Power Use By 2012.Byline: prashant03 Palo Alto Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.-based HP Co. has unveiled renewable energy Renewable energy utilizes natural resources such as sunlight, wind, tides and geothermal heat, which are naturally replenished. Renewable energy technologies range from solar power, wind power, and hydroelectricity to biomass and biofuels for transportation. initiatives in its facilities, research and products to support a new goal to double the companys global purchases of renewable power from under 4% in 2008 to 8% by 2012. This complements HPs goal to reduce energy consumption and the resulting greenhouse gas greenhouse gas n. Any of the atmospheric gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect. greenhouse gas emissions from HP-owned and HP-leased facilities worldwide to 16% below 2005 levels by 2010. HP recently completed a 1.1 MW, 6,256 solar panel system at its facility in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . The company has also elected to participate in Austin, Texas Green Choice program to procure almost 19.9 million kWh of wind energy from wind farms in western Texas for two of its Austin data centers. This represents nearly 20% of the annual energy used by the two centers. Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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