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Adobe's Silicon Valley headquarters turns green |
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Adobe Systems has completed the installation of 20 Windspire wind turbines at its San Jose, Calif., campus, marking the company’s first renewable energy installation. The new Windspires are located at the sixth–floor patio doubles as a rooftop garden and recreational area above an office parking garage. The patio sits between Adobe’s three office towers, which create a wind tunnel effect from sustained winds off the Pacific Ocean. Windspire wind turbines are low-cost, low-noise wind power generators for use with residential, business, and commercial buildings. They are manufactured in the US, and use patented technology that maximizes energy conversion from wind into electric power, regardless of changing wind speed and direction. Each Windspire turbine is around 30 feet tall, four feet wide and weighs 650 pounds. The propeller-free, vertical-axis wind turbine is capable of harnessing wind power in any location, urban, suburban or rural. Adobe;s statement said that it went with Windspire on account of its sleek, quiet and aesthetically pleasing design. Adobe has been recognized earlier for its green building efforts, earning the US Green Building Council’s highest accolade for green practices and becoming the first commercial office building to receive the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design LEED-EB Platinum certification for its San Jose headquarters. Adobe said that since 2001, it has saved around $6.7 million as a result of its energy and sustainability efforts, which include projects such as energy-efficient lighting, real-time water meters for landscaping and an intelligent control system to help monitor building efficiencies. “With the installation of the Windspires, we’re adding renewable energy to a long list of green measures Adobe has taken to lessen our environmental impact,” said Randall H. Knox, III, senior director, Global Workplace Solutions, Adobe. |
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