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Multi-State Efficiency Program Launches for Low-Income Housing

WegoWise has joined forces with Elevate Energy and New Ecology to bring energy efficiency projects to low-income housing in seven states…

Industry and Business

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Energy Use in Buildings: Innovative, Lower Cost Sensors and Controls Yield Better Energy Efficiency

Studies indicate that advanced sensors and controls have the potential to reduce the energy consumption of buildings by 20-30 percent.…

Industry and Business

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Eiffel Tower Installs UGE Renewable Energy System as Part of Monumental Retrofit

In partnership with the Société d'Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel, UGE International Ltd. has installed two on-site wind turbines at the…

Industry and Business

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India to Create 1 Million Jobs by 2022 with 100 GW Solar Expansion

India has committed to 266 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy in the next five years and promises to generate 1 million jobs by meeting…

Industry and Business

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Radio Chip for the 'Internet of Things'

At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the big theme was the "Internet of things" -- the idea that everything in the…

Industry and Business

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Utilities Push Into Fuel Stations for Electric Cars

Since hitting the mass market about five years ago, electric vehicles have failed to take off, largely, experts say, because a robust…

Industry and Business

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The Next Generation of Battery Tech at ARPA-E

Flow batteries for forklifts, new proton exchange membranes and sodium-ion cathode structures, and other potential breakthroughs.

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A Cheap Material Boosts Solar Cells by 50 Percent

Researchers have found a way to augment ordinary silicon solar cells with a material called a perovskite.

Research

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Investing in Energy Efficiency Pays Off

Nationally, the potential savings from energy conservation investments are astounding.

Industry and Business

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Money Versus Morals: Why Economic Rewards Trump Polite Messaging in Efficiency

New research looks at how moral suasion compares to monetary rewards.

Industry and Business

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How California Can Dramatically Streamline Interconnection of Distributed Energy

California is getting serious about distributed energy resources (DER), which include small utility-scale solar, bioenergy and wind…

Industry and Business

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UC Making Big Moves Toward Carbon Neutrality

The University of California quietly met an important milestone in 2014: It successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions to the same…

Graduate, Undergraduate

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2014 Breaks Heat Record, Challenging Global Warming Skeptics

In the annals of climatology, 2014 surpassed 2010 as the warmest year.

Industry and Business

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UCSB Ranked #3 in Top Green Colleges and Universities

With an impressive history of environmental efforts and sustainability trendsetting, UCSB has now been rated third in the nation in a…

In the News

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UCSB’s Shuji Nakamura Receives the 2015 Charles Stark Draper Prize

UCSB materials professor and 2014 Nobel Laureate Shuji Nakamura has been awarded the Draper Prize for Engineering by the National…

Awards and Accolades

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Beautiful Wind Turbine Trees Generate Clean Energy in Cities

Designers and researchers have come up with see-through solar panels that can be used as windows in buildings, white solar panels that…

Industry and Business