First totally green recharging station installed

Wind Renewable Energy Credits support a cleaner grid as Emalfarb, Swan & Bain partners with MC Squared Energy Services; smart grid, PACE financing, and EV charging advance energy efficiency across Chicago and the Midwest.

Chicago-based Carbon Day Automotive has announced the installation of the first truly “green” electric car charging station in the U.S. The Carbon Day Automotive ChargePoint Networked Charging Station, powered by Coulomb Technologies ChargePoint Network and located in the parking lot directly adjacent to 440 Central Ave., Highland Park, is completely powered by the wind.

The law firm of Emalfarb, Swan & Bain, entered into an electricity supply agreement with MC Squared Energy Services, LLC, a Chicago-based retail electricity supplier that provides its office building with wind powered Renewable Energy Credits (REC’s) that originate in the Midwest.

Emalfarb, Swan and Bain is engaged nationally at the forefront of renewable energy, the smart grid and energy efficiency law. The law firm is steadily working with its clients to guide their market penetration into the energy efficiency marketplace through the use of the PACE energy district on the real estate property tax bill supporting renewable energy and the smart grid by identifying funding sources and business models for retrofitting homes, businesses, and institutions to lower operating costs over time.

“Our law firm is dedicated to using innovative technology that will reduce our communities’ carbon footprint and guiding our clients to make a market transformation in their products and services that will create sustainable jobs to help the American Economic Recovery,” says Hal Emalfarb, a partner at Emalfarb, Swan & Bain, and the driver of a hybrid Prius that was converted to a plug-in vehicle now capable of 99-plus mpg.

“By integrating renewable energy, in this case, the prairie winds of Illinois, to power our office and our cars, we have seamlessly accomplished the goal of a cleaner grid that leads to a reduction of green house gases. Smart grid technology will explode green jobs and local investment as DC power gains wider acceptance, in the upcoming 'Recovery through Retrofit' initiative announced by Vice President Biden’s Middle Class Task Force."

“Sustainable companies like Emalfarb, Swan & Bain are adding renewable energy sources to their energy supply formula to help decrease their impact on the environment, says Chuck Sutton, President of MC Squared. “Renewable energy is quite simply energy generated from natural resources — like sunlight, wind, and geothermal heat, and examples like a solar-powered EV station in Brooklyn showcase practical use. By their very nature, renewable energy sources can be replenished in a short period of time.”

Carbon Day Automotive charging station in Highland Park is the first to be powered by energy derived from the wind in the world but is not the only one in the Chicago area powered by renewable energy, as the city also unveiled a plug-in station for EVs in Chicago recently, underscoring this momentum. The Department of Fleet Maintenance in Chicago has installed a Carbon Day Automotive charging station along with a specially designed solar canopy that uses the sun’s energy. Carbon Day’s initiatives to harness energy from the sun and wind provide a cleaner grid daily.

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