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Cool Planet Energy Systems Announces $168 Million Investment In Louisiana Bio-Refineries

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Construction will begin on the second bio-refinery at the Port of Natchitoches by the summer of 2015, with a completion date in the summer of 2016. The third site is scheduled to come online in late 2016 at a Louisiana site to be determined.

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Logistics: No Drivers Needed

Business Facilities

Contributing to the area’s outstanding infrastructure are Johnson County REMC, a member-owned electric distribution cooperative, and Hoosier Energy, a generation and transmission cooperative providing wholesale power and services to the distribution cooperative. Between July 1, 2015 and July 1, 2016, the U.S.

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False Advertising Claims over Net Zero and LEED Certified Homes

Green Building Law Update

The application to the Sacramento City Council in 2010 for 34 sewer connection fee credits by Pacific Housing, Inc. Home is a Net Zero LEED certified home that includes solar with electrical storage, smart meter and more.”. The homes at 2500 R Street are net zero energy, zero carbon, zero emissions, LEED®- certified residences.

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Rethinking Traditional Construction Project Management—Part 1 of 5

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Project managers have to account for the physical building, bridge or highway work, as well as water lines, sewer lines, electricity, rights of way and easements, drainage, environmental compliance and more. Some aspects of the projects could be handled in pre-fab facilities, while others occur on the jobsite.

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Food Processing: Generating Growth for Good Eats

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By the BF Staff From the January/February 2016 Issue. Boar’s Head Brand is set to open their 150,000-square-foot premium delicatessen product manufacturing and research facility in early 2016. It is served by the New Castle municipal water and sewer utility. CENTRAL IN: A GROWING HUB. Boar’s Head Provisions Co.,

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State Focus – Indiana: Regional Plans Are Hopping In The Hoosier State

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Beyond being an electric utility, Hoosier Energy leverages its capabilities to stimulate business investments, to create jobs, and to make their communities better places to live. Open communication has been the key to ensuring the South Central REMC stays on top of TOA’s ever-changing electricity needs. That’s “positive energy.”

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Advanced Manufacturing Industry: Dynamic Advancements

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By the BF Staff From the March/April 2016 Issue. When you think of community development, job creation, investment and business retention and expansion an electric generation and transmission company wouldn’t top the list. As a non-profit electric cooperative founded in 1949, Hoosier Energy is owned by its members.