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Update: Solar Junction Drives CPV Efficiency Even Higher

Just a month after making an announcement about a 40.9 percent efficiency multi-junction production cell, Solar Junction has announced…

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Smart Grid Lessons From the Super Bowl Week Outages in Texas

Last week’s events in Texas help illustrate that building an ever-expanding fleet of gas-fired peaking plants may not solve all our…

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What You Need to Know About Obama’s Budget & Energy

President Obama's proposed budget calls for boosting funding to the Department of Energy by nearly 12 percent. The spending plan focuses…

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Obama, Better Buildings and the Innovators

Obama’s "Better Building Initiative" may attract new innovators to the energy efficiency sector by providing incentives to reduce…

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DOE Designs Energy-Saving AC Units

The Department of Energy says it has developed a new design for rooftop air conditioning units that would reduce energy consumption by…

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Teaming Tenants and Landlords for Energy Savings

Under a lease with a sustainability clause, tenants can divide the savings from energy efficiency with the landlord, and those savings…

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The Key to Better Solar Cells: Bumpy Mirrors

Stanford University researchers have developed a nanoscale metal reflector that boosts the efficiency of solid electrolyte dye-…

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Cree Unfurls its Household LED Bulb

Cree recently announced a new product: the TrueWhite LED bulb, which will provide 800 lumens of light (equivalent to the light output of…

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Energy Efficiency and Calling in the Dogs

A recent report from the ACEEE points out that the basic principle of reward as incentive is missing when it comes to energy efficiency…

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Efficiency Could Cut World Energy Use Over 70 Percent

A study by Cambridge researchers shows that approximately 73 percent of global energy use could be eliminated simply by implementing…

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The Fantastical Promise of Reversible Computing

Reversible logic could cut the energy wasted by computers in the form of dissipated heat to zero. The concept is currently theoretical,…

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Ultra-Efficient SmartHome for Cleveland

SmartHome Cleveland will be 90% more efficient than a typical home, thanks to its heavily-insulated SIPs wall system, high-performance…

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Automakers Show Interest in an Unusual Engine Design

A new type of engine that stores compressed air could improve fuel economy by as much as 50 percent.

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Dynamic Chilling Goes Big Time

A new partnership between Optimum Energy and Johnson Controls offers energy management for central chilled water plants that are used to…

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250,000 Swedes Heat a Building with Their Bodies

Human body heat from Stockholm's Central Station is providing as much 25% of the heat for a nearby green building.

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Want to Learn About Smart Grid? Don’t Call Your Utility

A recent thesis by an undergraduate at Purdue University found that many utility call centers can’t answer basic questions on the smart…

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