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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…

Industry and Business

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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…

Industry and Business

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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…

Industry and Business

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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…

In the News

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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.…

Industry and Business

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5 Cleantech Milestones Worth Celebrating

GreenTech Media highlights five cleantech achievements reached in the first five months of 2013.

Industry and Business

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News Release: Institute Faculty Galen Stucky Elected to National Academy of Sciences

UC Santa Barbara professor of chemistry and of materials Galen Stucky was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for…

Awards and Accolades

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UCTV Series: Lighting the World

The four-part series "Lighting the World" by UCTV honors Institute Faculty Shuji Nakamura for his work on LEDs. The series shows how…

In the News

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Nano-Engineering Boosts Efficiency of Materials That Convert Waste Heat to Electrical Energy

High-performance thermoelectric materials that convert waste heat to electricity could one day be a source of more sustainable power. A…

Research

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Fuel Cells Could Offer Cheap Carbon Dioxide Storage

The electrochemical reactions that occur inside fuel cells to generate electricity could provide a cheap way to selectively remove…

Research

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Soraa Requests EPA’s ENERGY STAR Program to Address LED Lighting Color Quality

Soraa, a LED company founded by leading Institute Faculty, has asked the EPA to address lighting color quality in the next ENERGY STAR…

Industry and Business

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How Gallium Nitride Could Help Power the World

Institute Faculty Umesh Mishra is featured in a Pacific Standard article discussing Mishra's work on power conversion. “When gallium-…

Industry and Business

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Technology Can Turn Waste Heat Into Electricity at Temperatures As Low As 86 Degrees

Roughly 20 to 50 percent of energy consumed in the world is dispersed as heat. A company has come up with a way to harness waste heat as…

Industry and Business

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Moth Eyes Inspire More Efficient Thin-Film Solar Cells

Researchers study moths' eyes to solve one of thin-film solar technology's biggest problems: light reflection between films that causes…

Research