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Palo Alto Goes Solar, 80 Megawatts at 6.9 Cents per Kilowatt-Hour

Palo Alto, California has some of the cheapest solar in the United States. The price is 6.9 cents per kilowatt-hour for the 30-year…

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Obama’s Better Buildings Program Celebrates First Year

"In its first year, President Obama’s Better Buildings Challenge has signed up 7,700 participants that have reduced energy use by 2.5…

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Harvard Researchers Release Database of 35,000 Organic Molecules For Potential Solar Cell Use

Harvard researches released a database of 35,000 organic molecules that are potentially over 10% efficient in converting solar energy…

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Climate Plan Jumps Ahead to Mitigating Weather-Related Disasters

President Obama laid out his new Climate Action Plan in a speech at Georgetown University yesterday. This Energy Manger Today article…

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Internet Energy Efficiency: NRDC Study Questions Power Drain From Routers, Modems

Internet devices, such as modems and routers, are rarely unplugged and have shown to consume large amounts of energy. The Natural…

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News Release: Two-Dimensional Atomically-Flat Transistors Show Promise for Next Generation Green Electronics

Institute faculty Kaustav Banerjee and team demonstrate first n-type field effect transistors on monolayer tungsten diselenide with…

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World Cities Improving Energy Efficiency: Report

A report by the Carbon Disclosure Project shows that many cities around the world are taking big steps to improve their energy…

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EPRI Software Quantifies the Value of Energy Storage

EPRI has created an analytical software tool to quantify the value and cost-effectiveness of energy storage. The tool can be used by…

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Software Monitors ICT Supply Chain Sustainability

The Global e-Sustainability Initiative and EcoVadis have partnered to launch an online platform to monitor sustainability practices in…

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Free DOE Building Performance Database Includes 60,000 Records

The Department of Energy released a free publicly available database of actual energy performance data from more than 60,000 residential…

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Calif. Navy Base Smart Meters Cutting Energy Waste

The Navy base in Oxnard, California has saved thousands of dollars in energy bills by installing 300 smart meters pinpointing energy…

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Cloud Computing Saves Energy

Consolidating pictures, videos, emails and documents on remote servers saves more energy than keeping them on personal computers.

Industry and Business

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California Sets 1.3GW Energy Storage Target by 2020

On Monday, the California Public Utilities Commission released a proposal that would call for the state’s big three investor-owned…

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Commentary: Materials for a Sustainable Energy Future

The American Institute of Physics' Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy published commentary discussing the Institute for Energy…

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Institute Faculty Chris Van de Walle's Paper Selected for APL Editor's Picks of 2012

Institute faculty Chris Van de Walle's paper, "Fundamental limits on optical transparency of transparent conducting oxides: Free-carrier…

In the News, Research

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Grasping for Ways to Capture Carbon Dioxide on the Cheap

Wind and solar get all the attention, but a key path to lowering emissions involves finding a less expensive way to do carbon capture.…

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