From Green Right Now Reports
Four major corporations were named “Green Power Partners of the Year” this past week by the US EPA:
Deutsche Bank AG — In 2009, the company made an annual purchase of 160 million kilowatt-hours of wind-derived renewable energy certificates (RECs), which represents 100 percent of the electricity needs for its U.S. operations. Worldwide, Deutsche Bank bought 515 million-kilowatt hours of green power.
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Vegawatt gives restaurants an easier way to use their oil waste as biofuel
By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now
Restaurants looking to green their operations by generating some of their own electrical power are finding it easier as vendor companies try to fill in the gaps.
Owl Power Company, for instance, has developed a way for restaurants to more conveniently use vegetable oil as fuel. Owl’s Vegawatt is a combined heating and power system that runs on vegetable oil and can be connected
to existing heating and power systems to be used as supplemental green energy.
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Tags: · Biofuel, green power, Owl Power Company, restaurants, Vegawatt, vegetable oil recycling
A green supercomputer for DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago
By John DeFore

The Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, a sixty-plus-year-old lab complex near Chicago, needs an enormous amount of juice to run all its number-crunching computers. But its ratio of computing power to electrical usage just made a leap, thanks to the Blue Gene/P, a supercomputer designed for the Department by IBM.
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Tags: · Argonne National Laboratory, Blue Gene/P, green power, IBM, supercomputer