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Indiana Department of Corrections Green Initiative to save $36 million over 10 years

"More and more, the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) has been taking steps to promote energy efficiency and save money. Today at a ribbon cutting ceremony, IDOC Commissioner Edwin G. Buss introduced another green initiative that will save the agency $36 million over ten years.

The ceremony at the Pendleton Correctional Facility highlighted the installation of a biomass boiler, which uses post-production scrap wood purchased from local Indiana businesses for fuel instead of natural gas. The boiler, installed as part of a State energy savings contract, replaces fossil fuel dependency with renewable and environmentally friendly resources."

Read the full press release here.

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Tihomir Ipotpaliev said:

Commendable initiative. Only in this way, step by step will be to fight global warming

May 28, 2010 1:34 AM

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