NEWS
By Joe Piasecki, joe.piasecki@latimes.com | May 7, 2012
Historic downtown buildings that house homeless families from Pasadena and Glendale are now showing the planet some love. On Thursday, Union Station Homeless Services unveiled the eco-friendly renovation of Euclid Villa, funded by a $1.18 million Los Angeles County Community Development Commission grant. Among other improvements, the 14-unit complex near the Pasadena Convention Center received solar panels, energy-efficient heating and cooling systems, new flooring, a garden makeover with drought-tolerant plants and a padded-cork surface for its playground.
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By Brittany Levine, brittany.levine@latimes.com | May 2, 2012
Call it a match made in Glendale. Ice Energy has moved into a new 25,000-square-foot facility in Glendale, a city whose utility has become one of the Colorado-based company's largest clients for systems that store energy for air conditioners overnight, when electricity is in less demand and cheaper. The facility, located in Glendale's industrial San Fernando Road corridor, is also centrally located to the firm's other top clients. “Glendale is kind of like the center of the map for us here in California,” said Mike Hopkins, executive vice president of Ice Energy.
NEWS
By Jason Wells, jason.wells@latimes.com | April 3, 2012
A Facebook application that allows smart meter customers to gauge how much energy they're using compared to others went live Tuesday, Glendale officials announced. Glendale Water & Power customers can connect their utility accounts to the “Opower” app via Facebook to monitor how they stack up to others in terms of energy consumption. Officials have described the app as sort of a “Farmville” type social networking experience. The app plays into what city officials have said is a key element of the smart meters - the ability of customers to track their consumption in near real-time to better control costs.
SPORTS
By Emin Avakian | March 23, 2012
LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE - Whether his team is coming off a win or a loss, Flintridge Prep boys' volleyball Coach Sean Beattie knows what to expect from his young squad - a high energy, upbeat group of players. The Rebels dropped their first Prep League match of the season just three days prior against Pasadena Poly, but were back on their home court Friday afternoon to take on Rio Hondo Prep in another league showdown. With their high-energy mantra not missing a beat, the Rebels won, 25-17, 25-23, 18-25, 25-19 and improved to 10-8 overall and 2-1 in league.
NEWS
By Brittany Levine, brittany.levine@latimes.com | March 16, 2012
China's Solar Valley - a green tech version of California's Silicon Valley - wants to cozy up to Glendale. Government officials there are interested in sending staffers to work at Glendale City Hall for a year to see how planning is done here, Mayor Laura Friedman said this week as she described her visit to China during a City Council meeting. A businessman who developed much of the clean-tech metropolis is also eyeing Glendale for a possible 8.5-acre manufacturing site, she said.
NEWS
By Brittany Levine, brittany.levine@latimes.com | December 9, 2011
Glendale is well on its way to meeting state mandates that require cities to get 33% of their energy supplies from renewable resources such as wind, solar or landfill gas by 2020. The state law, which takes effect Saturday, sets intermediary targets - the first of which Glendale Water & Power has already beat. Officials say the utility currently has a renewable energy portfolio of 21%, above the first intermediary target of 20% by Dec. 31, 2013. The second target is 25% from renewable energy sources by Dec. 31, 2016.
SPORTS
By Andrew Shortall, andrew.shortall@latimes.com | December 8, 2011
LA CRESCENTA - A St. Francis High boys' basketball team comeback against Hart came up just short in a Falcon Classic pool-play game Thursday. The Golden Knights had cut what was once a 12-point Hart lead down to one early in the fourth quarter before St. Francis turnovers flipped things around for the Indians and allowed them to hold on for an 80-67 victory at Crescenta Valley High. The Golden Knights simply got too tired, St. Francis co-Coach Ray O'Brien said. "A lot of times when you expend that much energy to get yourself back into the ball game and you're getting tired as it is - they had a deeper bench then we had - you make a couple plays and if they go the other way they break your back," O'Brien said.
NEWS
By Brittany Levine brittany.levine@latimes.com | November 4, 2011
Forced by the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Glendale's City Council approved a sweeping plan this week to reduce the city's carbon footprint. The plan sets ambitious goals in citywide recycling efforts. It also calls for increased efficiency at city facilities to cut down on local emissions of greenhouse gases. The 115-page Greener Glendale Plan focuses on municipal operations, which account for about 3% of Glendale's total greenhouse gas emissions. But a second plan aimed at the community as a whole is in the pipeline.
NEWS
By Brittany Levine, brittany.levine@latimes.com | October 28, 2011
Glendale Water & Power will be one of the first utility companies to join a pilot program featuring a first-of-its-kind Facebook application that will allow roughly 4 million energy users from California to Chicago to create competitions and share insight about their energy consumption on the social networking site. The idea is that by tapping the same social gusto that users apply to other Facebook tools, the utilities will get their customers fully connected to the potential of energy conservation.
NEWS
By Mark Kellam and Brittany Levine mark.kellam@latimes.com, brittany.levine@latimes.com | October 2, 2011
It's a tale of two cities in two very different positions as the utilities in Burbank and Glendale work to meet strict state mandates for using renewable energy. At 21%, Glendale Water & Power is ahead of schedule in hitting the first benchmark - that public utilities must get 20% of their power from renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar and geothermal, by Dec. 31, 2013. Steve Lins, assistant general manager of supplies, told the Glendale City Council on Tuesday that the utility was “well on track.” “We're way ahead of the game,” he said.