Eco-Friendly Storage

The Box Self Storage Services LLC, which operates more than 30 facilities in West Asia, is supporting Tree-Nation, an online community that fights climate change through afforestation campaigns. The Box will plant a tree for every new self-storage...

Deer Creek Mini Storage in Cabot, Ark., installed 80 solar panels on its rooftops this month, becoming the first self-storage facility in Central Arkansas with a solar-energy system. The operator partnered with energy-solutions provider Seal Solar...

Storage Star, a self-storage operator with locations in five states, broke ground last week on a new facility in Napa, Calif., that will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy and equipped with high-tech features. The property at 300 Devlin...

Extra Space Storage Inc., a publicly traded self-storage real estate investment trust (REIT) and third-party management firm, has partnered with solar-power company Pivot Energy to add 2.7 megawatts of capacity at 23 of the REIT’s locations in...

BCPStor Development LLC has built an energy-efficient self-storage project at 950 Phenix Ave. in Cranston, R.I. Completed in July, the facility features insulated metal panels (IMPs) on two buildings and a rooftop solar-panel system on its three...

Prime Development Group LLC (PDG) has installed solar panels at College Point Storage, a self-storage facility it owns in Lacey, Wash. The 120-kilowatt system comprises a series of 360-watt, 72-cell photovoltaic panels, which is expected to offset...