Source: www.ecowatch.com
Microsoft announced Monday two new contracts for 237 megawatts of wind energy capacity to run its Wyoming data center entirely on wind power.
With the latest deal, the company now purchases more than 500 megawatts of wind energy in the country. According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the top 50 corporate buyers of solar and wind power in the U.S. will add more than 17 gigawatts by 2020, as the role of companies in combating climate change is expected to become even more important under a Trumpadministration.
“This investment in wind energy keeps us on pace to meet the energy goals we set last spring,” Brad Smith of Microsoft said in a blog post. “We announced earlier this year that roughly 44 percent of the electricity consumed by Microsoft’s datacenters comes from wind, solar and hydropower, and we committed to raising this to 50 percent by 2018 and to 60 percent by early in the next decade.
“Innovation and sustainability go hand in hand. We’re thinking differently about our datacenters and how we can build and operate them in a more sustainable way. And the innovations we’re piloting in this deal are not only good for business, but also good for local communities and the environment as well.”
Рlanned to hold a seminar on “Environmental impact assessment and environmental management” on the basis of the environmental protection of the Center of retraining and professional development of the environment and of natural resources in the period from 24 to 26 February 2016 in Astana.
Republican State Enterprise on the Right of Economic Management “Information-Analytical Center of Environmental Protection” of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the basis of the Center for retraining and advanced training in the field of environmental protection and nature (hereinafter – the Center) announces that it plans to hold in Astana specialized training seminar on “Environmental impact assessment and environmental management”, from 24 to 26 February 2016.
On the basis of the final evaluation of the knowledge students receive a certificate signed by the departmental sample Vice-Minister of Energy of Kazakhstan.
At the same time, the Center provides participants with handouts of the seminar – the Environmental Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan with the latest changes and additions, the legal framework in the field of environmental protection «Eco-info» on electronic media (CD-ROM with over 1500 documents).
Applications will be accepted no later than 3 days prior to the workshop on the basis of the registration form which is available on the Internet site www.iacoos.kz.
For all organizational matters can contact the specialists of the Center Fariza Shimshikova and Danagul Abike, tel. 8 (7172) 79-93-35, e-mail address pkkiac@mail.ru.