General Matter and the U.S. Department of Energy get busy reawakening a uranium enrichment plant in Kentucky. Haleon breaks ground on a global oral health innovation center southwest of London with a special connection to a plant in Slovakia. AbbVie reaffirms its commitment to north Chicago as part of a $10 billion U.S. investment plan.
Canada’s most densely populated province is updating its existing district energy plant that recycles waste and biomass into sustainable heating and cooling for over 145 buildings in its capital city of Charlottetown.
As the baseball season embarks on the final month of the regular season, we look back at Ron Starner’s 2014 interview with John Schuerholz, the now-retired former president of the Atlanta Braves, in “Swinging for the Fences.” Schuerholz was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2017 as the only general manager to have teams win World Series titles in both leagues (the Kansas City Royals in 1985 and the Braves in 1995).
“This will become a destination,” Schuerholz said then of plans for SunTrust Park (now Truist Park) and The Battery, the Braves’ new stadium and district in Cobb County. A June 2025 report from the county stated that the stadium and associated taxes generated a $3 million net gain for Cobb’s General Fund and that the taxable value of property in The Battery has grown from $5 million in 2014 to $577 million in 2024, now spanning 56 parcels. Meanwhile, around 1,000 employees are moving into a new Truist Securities HQ in the district between July and December this year.
Named an ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year last year for the seventh consecutive year, Office Properties Income Trust last year completed construction of Unison Elliott Bay, a mixed-use campus in Seattle with 300,000 sq. ft. of life sciences lab, R&D and Class A office space.
Photo ourtesy of The RMR Group
Earlier this summer, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) named seven leaders as recipients of the Champions of Energy Efficiency in Industry Award. They included lifetime achievement awards to Rob Morton, retired from Cascade Energy; Sharon Nolen, retired from Eastman Chemicals; and Elizabeth Dutrow, retired from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, who established and led the EPA ENERGY STAR Industry program.
The EPA’s registry of ENERGY STAR certified commercial buildings and plants as of this morning has records for 45,381 structures comprising more than 6.8 billion sq. ft. The EPA in May announced a series of moves that would effectively end the ENERGY STAR program.
Last week, Juniper Research forecast that global industrial smart building deployments will grow from 26 million in 2025 to over 165 million by 2030.
PHOTO OF THE DAY
Photo courtesy of Enbridge
This 2022 image from Canadian energy company Enbridge shows the Mighty Mac Bridge spanning Michigan’s Straits of Mackinac. Enbridge’s Line 5 light oil and NGL pipeline runs along the lakebed in the Straits as it travels from Superior, Wisconsin to Sarnia, Ontario. The company’s $1 billion Great Lakes Tunnel Project will see a tunnel drilled far below the lakebed, spanning the four-mile Straits and housing a replacement segment of Line 5. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in April fast-tracked review of permitting for the tunnel.
