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In his talk, "The Promise of Silicon Photonics," Bowers, Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency, discussed the evolution of…

Sun Catalytix is making a new type of flow battery that could store hours’ worth of energy on the grid.

A strong showing from global solar photovoltaic (PV) installations, coupled with a sharp fall in new wind capacity, has led to solar…

TE Connectivity, a world leader in connectivity, has joined the Terabit Optical Ethernet Center (TOEC) research center as its newest…

UC Santa Barbara professor Galen D. Stucky has been named a 2013 Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

A new report from the ACEEE ranks America's 34 largest cities on what they are doing to save energy and costs in 5 key areas.

Animated infographic from MIT Technology Review showing how flexible, efficient solar cells will make solar power cheaper.

The Obama Administration is moving forward with limiting greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants by enacting the first federal…

Awarded to six incoming graduate students pursuing research in energy efficiency.

LED manufacturer Cree announced this week that it had become the first company to meet the California standards on LED bulbs.

The Institute for Energy Efficiency announces its fifth cohort of graduate student fellows receiving the Frenkel Fellowship.

A new transistor design can cut a computer chip's power consumption by 50%. Portable devices that normally have to be recharged every…

Intel announced its new portfolio of datacenter products and technologies for cloud service providers looking to drive greater…

The company, S-RAM Dynamics, was awarded $400,000 through DOE's “Next Generation Energy Efficient Buildings Technologies" program to…

California Public Utilities Commission released a proposal mandating 1.3 gigawatts of energy storage to support the state’s power grid…

Lawrence Livermore National Lab releases its 2012 United States' energy use graph.