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Roland Geyer Looks to Rewrite the Book on Plastics

The Institute for Energy Efficiency's faculty member Roland Geyer discusses recycling, plastic bans, and other efforts to reduce plastic…

In the News

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A Quarter of Humanity Faces Looming Water Crisis

This New York Times article is a timely reminder that lack of access to clean healthy water is an issue in many parts of the world and…

In the News

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Innovator Spotlight: PowWow, Water Management Made Easy

Olivier Jerphagnon, the founder and CEO of PowWow, and an Industry Partner to the Institute for Energy Efficiency, was interviewed by…

Alumni, In the News, Industry and Business

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California farmers are planting solar panels as water supplies dry up

"Solar energy projects could replace some of the jobs and tax revenues that may be lost as constrained water supplies force California’s…

In the News

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IEE Frenkel Fellow Receives Best Paper Award at IEEE ICIOT 2019

One of IEE's 2018-2019 Peter J. Frenkel Fellows, Nevena Golubovic, received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE ICIOT 2019 conference! Her…

Awards and Accolades

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Professor Thuc-Quyen Nguyen receives Hall of Fame Highlight from Advanced Science News

UCSB Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor Thuc-Quyen Nguyen receives national recognition for her contributions in the development of…

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Professor Tim Sherwood's ArchLab paper receives Best Paper Award

Under the direction of Computer Science Professor Tim Sherwood in UCSB's…

Awards and Accolades, Research

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A New Focus for Energy Efficiency

Our planet is experiencing worldwide growth in energy consumption and CO2 emission and is experiencing temperature rise and climate…

General

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Energy Efficient Software Development for the Internet of Things (IoT)

Increasingly, Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications require energy efficiency, low-latency, privacy and security of code and data, and…

General

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Southern California Edison - Assessing New Energy Technologies for Our Customers

Southern California Edison has a goal to reduce carbon-emissions 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, with an electric grid supplied by 80%…

General

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Transitioning to a Hydrogen Energy Economy with the Help of Natural Gas

Global prosperity over the last century has been powered by low-cost fossil fuels. Unfortunately, they are a finite resource and pose…

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Turning Emissions into Plastics

UCSB Bren Professor Sangwon Suh details a revolutionary approach to storing and…

Research

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Utilities, States, Thousands More Oppose Lighting Rollback

Noah Horowitz summarizes the massive outpouring of support for light bulb efficiency standard.
 

General

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Quantifying the Unknown

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Awards and Accolades

4/2019 newsletter

Newsletter: April 2019

IEE has released it's quarterly newsletter featuring news, research and announcements from January through April 2019. View the full…

Newsletter

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IEE researchers publish "High Performance Photonic Integrated Circuits on Silicon"

A new invited review paper on heterogeneous integration of III-V semiconductor photonics combined with silicon foundry technology has…

Research