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Institute for Energy Efficiency Announces 2013-2014 Peter J. Frenkel Foundation Fellows

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

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Low-Power Transistors May Boost Wearable Computer Battery Life

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

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Intel Unveils New Technologies for Efficient Cloud Datacenters

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

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Heat Pump With Variable Stroke Compressor Saves 50% on Energy

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

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California Sets Terms of Massive Energy Storage Mandate

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

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Update: Lessons From the Livermore Laboratory's Energy Use Graph

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

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Smart Window Coating Lets You Control How Much Light and Heat Get Through

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab designed a new material for windows that could lead to "smart windows" that let people…

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Swiss Researchers Have Developed an 80-mpg Hybrid Engine

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have developed an ultra-efficient new engine that runs on a…

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DOE Head Ernest Moniz Delivers First Major Policy Address

The new Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, delivers his first big policy address. Secretary Moniz uses the Obama administration's…

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New Report Outlines How Network Technology Must Increase Efficiency to Meet Rising Energy Demands

Phys.org features an article on the Institute's ICT Technology Roundtable report detailing the needed efficiency increases in network…

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6 Things One Utility Now Knows About Electric Vehicles

Southern California Edison released a white paper that shares insights to its electric vehicle readiness program as the utility prepares…

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LED Uptake Drives Lighting Controls Segment

LED prices have dramatically fallen causing an increase in LED sales. According to Navigant Research, this will promote the adoption of…

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Rechargeable Flow Batteries Could Be Cheaper Solution To Renewable Energy Storage

Researchers at MIT have developed a battery that could bring us reliable and cheap large scale energy storage.

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White House Goes Solar

The White House has begun installing American-made solar panels as part of a commitment to renewable energy. The installations will also…

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Electric Cars May Threathen the Grid

Residential charging of electric cars may draw more power than local neighborhood grids are set up to handle. The popularity of electric…

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7% of Vehicles Sold in California So Far This Year Are Hybrid Cars, 1.8% Are Plug-Ins

A Treehugger article details some interesting facts on car sales in California. Hybrid cars now represent 7% of the market in California…

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