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GE Announces Ecomagination Challenge Winners

The 12 winners of GE's Ecomagination Challenge: Powering the Grid include an energy-efficient solar-powered cooling/heating technology,…

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Solar Arrays Do Double-Duty

Cogenra Solar has developed a hybrid solar array that produces electricity and uses waste heat to provide hot water. The company says it…

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The Great White Hope for White LEDs: Zinc Oxide

Startup EcoSpark believes it can produce a white light LED using zinc oxide. Unlike blue, gallium nitride LEDs, EcoSpark's bulb doesn't…

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ESL Bulbs 70 Percent More Efficient Than Incandescents

New bulbs created by Vu1 Corporation that use electron stimulated luminescence are cheaper than LEDs and 70% more efficient than…

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EPA to Push Efficiency on Big Carbon Emitters

The EPA announced that instead of mandating specific control technologies when it begins regulating greenhouse gas emissions next year,…

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Best of Energy Star Rating Coming in 2011

The Department of Energy plans to roll out a new "Most Efficient" Energy Star rating for products in the top of their categories. The…

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Why the Election Could be Good For Green Tech

Michael Kanellos of Greentech Media argues that clean, green, efficient energy is a popular bi-partisan issue nationwide and that the…

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Energy Efficiency: Real Estate’s Next Granite Counter Top?

Boston-based Conservation Services Group is working on a metric to describe a home’s energy efficiency value. The metric would be…

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Nice Ice, Baby: Ice-Rink Maker Finds Following with Thermal Energy Storage

CALMAC's ICEBANK technology provides an energy-efficient alternative for cooling buildings by freezing ice at night (when energy costs…

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Microsoft-Backed Research Suggests Big Energy Reductions from Cloud

A new report from Microsoft suggests that large businesses could reduce their direct energy consumption and carbon emissions by up to 30…

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Eucalyptus Chief Talks Future After $20 Million Infusion

Eucalyptus Systems, a private cloud software vendor founded by Institute faculty member Rich Wolski, recently received $20 million in…

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The Changing Shape of Light

Steve DenBaars, head of the Lighting Solutions Group at the Institute for Energy Efficiency, discusses the inefficiency of the…

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Leading Experts From Industry, Government, And Academia Make Recommendations To Accelerate LED Technology In Mainstream Lighting

New white paper summarizes the status of LED technology, evolving LED markets and options for greater market penetration.

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Google Awards $1 Million For University Research Effort To Slash Energy Consumption In Internet Data Centers

Google awards $1 million research grant aimed at slashing energy usage in large Internet data centers.

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DoE Honcho Visits UCSB, Shares on Sustainability

Steve Koonin, Undersecretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy gives an Energy Leadership Lecture at UCSB presented by the…

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Undersecretary for Science Talks Sustainability at UCSB

Department of Energy Undersecretary for Science gives talk in an Institute for Energy Efficiency sponsored lecture.

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