PITTSFIELD, Mass. (NEWS10) – A local city is going to new lengths to cut electricity costs during the holiday season. The mayor and the Colonial Power Group are teaming up for a city-wide program called the Pittsfield Community Choice Power Supply Program. Officials say the program will allow the city to provide them with an alternative to existing basic service costs. They say it’ll save the city more than $780,000 in electricity costs over the next six months. Click here fo

The equipment supporting the unique heating system at Amazon's new Seattle campus are hidden by a rooftop facade. Jordan Stead/Amazon Historically speaking, the concept of district heating is far from new — the village of Chaudes-Aigues Cantal in France has been using a geothermal version for centuries. More recently, cities such as Copenhagen and Boston have started using this approach to keep buildings warm in the fall and winter by capturing and converting "recycled" therm

Solar farm with wind turbines in the background. Image source: Getty Images. Utilities that need to build new power generation facilities or replace old ones are going to have a hard time justifying anything but renewable energy in 2017 and beyond. Investment bank Lazard recently released its 11th analysis of the cost of new electricity generation, titled Lazard's Levelized Cost Of Energy Analysis--Version 11.0, and showed that wind and solar energy are now cheaper than diese

Volvo electric bus The mayors of 12 major cities from around the world have taken a landmark step to increase the use of zero-emission public transportation late last month. Mayors of London, Paris, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Quito, Vancouver, Mexico City, Milan, Seattle, Auckland, and Cape Town all signed the C40 Fossil-Fuel-Free Streets Declaration, which pledges that they will add only fully electric buses to their cities' public transportation from 2025. Although

Andrew Simkin plugs in his Nissan Leaf all electric car at the electric vehicle charging station in the public parking garage on Lincoln Street in Auburn Friday. Kevin Rivoli, The Citizen AUBURN — The city of Auburn has unveiled its first electric vehicle charging station, which was installed in the public parking garage on Lincoln Street. On Friday, several city and state officials hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony downtown to celebrate the charging station. The station was p

Date: Friday, November 10th (rain or shine) Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Location: City of Auburn parking garage on Lincoln Street Contact: Chris Carrick 315-422-8276 ext. 1213 ccarrick@cnyrpdb.org The City of Auburn will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its first electric vehicle charging station, which has been installed in the public parking garage on Lincoln Street. The public and media are invited to attend the event, which will be held on Friday, November 10th from 4:00

Greenhouse-gas emissions of battery-electric vehicles globally in MPG equivalent [U of Michigan TRI] When electric cars first arrived in 2011, it was a reasonable question: Aren't you just shifting emissions from the tailpipe to the smokestack? The answer is yes, but the carbon emissions per mile of an electric car—properly measured on a wells-to-wheels basis—are virtually always lower than those of a gasoline or diesel car. It's not always true, depending on how dirty the gr

Data so far this year points to 2017 continuing a long-term trend of record breaking temperatures around the world, says World Meteorological Organization Activists hold giant balloons labeled ‘CO2’ in front of the Neurath coal power plant ahead of the Bonn climate summit. Photograph: Philipp Guelland/EPA 2017 is set to be one of the hottest three years on record, provisional data suggests, confirming yet again a warming trend that scientists say bears the fingerprints of hum

Tesla’s efforts to ramp up production of its Model 3 electric vehicle overshadowed its Riverbend solar plant during the company’s third-quarter earnings report. (Derek Gee/Buffalo News) Tesla still expects to start shifting production of its solar roof to Buffalo by the end of this year, the electric vehicle maker said Wednesday. Tesla's executives, in their most specific comment on the timing of solar roof production at the RiverBend complex, said the company expects to ramp