{"id":697655,"date":"2010-03-22T14:10:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=10088"},"modified":"2010-03-22T14:10:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:10:47","slug":"sacramento%e2%80%99s-port-gets-a-littler-greener-and-we%e2%80%99re-not-talking-about-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/697655","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento\u2019s port gets a littler greener (and we\u2019re not talking about algae)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Green Right Now Reports<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"story_subheadline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofwestsacramento.org\" >The Port of West Sacramento<\/a> plans to be among the greenest anywhere. With the installation of photovoltaic panels or &#8220;modules&#8221; that cover 90,000 square feet of the rooftops of two rice warehouses, port authorities project that they will produce on-site all of the port&#8217;s electricity needs for the next 25 years &#8211;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10090\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 195px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10090\" title=\"Mitsubishi_Electric_Solar_Panels_at_Port_of_West_Sacramento\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.greenrightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mitsubishi_Electric_Solar_Panels_at_Port_of_West_Sacramento1.jpg?resize=185%2C139\" alt=\"Solar panels at the Port of West Sacramento\" width=\"185\" height=\"139\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solar panels at the Port of West Sacramento<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>saving the port about $20,000 in energy costs annually.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- start story body -->Port authorities announced last week the planned installation of 3,536\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitsubishielectricsolar.com.\" >Mitsubishi Electric<\/a> modules, and publicly thanked East West Bank for financing the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project fits in well with our bank&#8217;s &#8216;Go Green&#8217; initiative to promote the expansion of the clean tech industry in California,\u201d says K.Y. Cheng, Executive Vice President of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/wjrt\/2010\/03\/22\/sacramentos-port-gets-a-littler-greener-and-were-not-talking-about-algae\/www.eastwestbank.com.\" >East West Bank<\/a>, which is headquartered in California where it has more than 100 branches.<\/p>\n<p>The port is quite serious about its intent to become one of the greenest in the country, said port manager Mike Luken, in a statement. Next on the environmental agenda: The ports of West Sacramento, Oakland and Stockton, are planning a &#8220;marine highway&#8221; container barge system that could improve energy efficiency and reduce harmful emissions of shipping on the region&#8217;s waterways.<\/p>\n<p>Mitsubishi is a large manufacturer of solar powered technology, making both PV modules and inverters that are used by businesses, schools, factories, stadiums and regional facilities without access to conventional electricity.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Green Right Now Reports The Port of West Sacramento plans to be among the greenest anywhere. With the installation of photovoltaic panels or &#8220;modules&#8221; that cover 90,000 square feet of the rooftops of two rice warehouses, port authorities project that they will produce on-site all of the port&#8217;s electricity needs for the next 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2756,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Vuv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2756"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}