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Cox Enterprises Gives Back with Clean Energy
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May 14, 2013

Cox Enterprises Gives Back with Clean Energy

By Hannah Bond
TMCnet Contributing Writer

Cox (News - Alert) Conserves, a national sustainability program by Cox Enterprises, recently finished three solar installations in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The installations are at Manheim and Cox Communications locations, both of which are subsidiaries of Cox Enterprises.


The first installation at a Manheim location in North Dighton, Mass., consists of enough solar panels to power roughly 400 homes for a year. Part of the energy produced will be put towards powering the automotive auction facility, and part will be delivered to the community.

The second and third installations are both at Cox Communications locations in Rhode Island. Combined, the Warwick and Portsmouth installations will create enough energy to power about 77 homes for a year. All of this energy will be available to the community through a partnership with National Grid.

These are just the latest initiatives by Cox Enterprises to move its subsidiaries to greener energy sources and provide a better environment for the community. The Cox Conserves program has the goal of reducing Cox Enterprise’s carbon footprint by 20 percent by 2017, and many other projects have been put into place by Cox Enterprises to try to reach this goal. In 2011, for example, Cox Communications in Orange (News - Alert) County and San Diego added enough fuel cells to produce the energy used by an astounding 1,200 homes annually.

Not only do these clean energy projects help reduce carbon emissions, they also help reduce energy costs and produce green technology jobs. This is an area with rapid job growth, as demonstrated by the 749,197 positions posted between January 1 and March 31 of this year.

A particularly appealing state for green technology jobs is Massachusetts, since it was one of the states with the most growth in available incentives from Q4 2012 to Q1 2013. The new solar installations in North Dighton, Warwick and Portsmouth highlight the readiness of New England to explore cleaner energy solutions such as solar.




Edited by Alisen Downey


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