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NY State Buildings Must Increase Energy Efficiency 20%

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an Executive Order directing state agencies to increase energy efficiency in state buildings by 20…

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New Study: Concentrating Solar With Storage Can Benefit the Grid

Studies suggest that concentrated solar power (CSP) plants with storage capacity can outperform solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind power…

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Obama Signs Energy Efficiency Legislation

President Obama signed the American Energy Manufacturing Technical Corrections Act on Wednesday after the bill received bipartisan…

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Nanostructure Material Makes Organic Solar Cells 175 Percent More Efficient in Lab

Researchers at Princeton claim to have developed a nansostructured sandwich of metal and plastic that increases the efficiency of…

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Home Energy Management: 2012 Status Report

Greentech Media summarizes Americans' 2012 home energy usage and statistics. "Home energy management in 2012, like every other year,…

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Measuring the Climate Impact of Natural Gas

Burning natural gas to generate electricity releases about half as much carbon dioxide as burning coal, but such a benefit can be offset…

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Eggshells for Energy Storage

David Mitlin, a professor of engineering at the University of Alberta in Canada, is working on a way to convert waste eggshell membranes…

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Powerful PVs Approach 50 Percent Efficiency

Solar Junction -- a Silicon Valley start-up -- has raised solar cell efficiency to 44 percent. Their triple-junction technology absorbs…

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UPS, Postal Service Partner To Cut Carbon Footprints

The US Postal Service and UPS have partnered in an effort to increase both companies' sustainability, reduce greenhouse gas emissions,…

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Opening the German Smart Meter Market

Europe is going to be the next big market for smart meters -- and Germany, the continent’s most populous nation, could be the biggest…

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UCSB Chemist Lands New Hybrid Technology Grant

Galen Stucky, an Institute faculty member, was the lead player in a UCSB research team to win a $1.6 million federal grant to further…

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Seeking to Start a Silicon Valley for Battery Science

DOE will establish a research hub for batteries and energy storage at Argonne National Laboratory. This is the fourth "innovation hub"…

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Tidal Wave of Money Coming to Make California Schools Greener

California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 39. Roughly $550 million a year will be spent on improving the energy efficiency for…

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News Release: Institute for Energy Efficiency Receives $1.6 Million from DOE to Develop New Hybrid Battery Technology

Professor Galen Stucky's research group is developing an energy storage device for hybrid electric vehicles that combines the properties…

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UN Climate Talks Roundup: Credit Surplus, Finance Showcase, Rising Sea Levels

The latest news from the United Nations’ climate talks in Doha, Qatar, where representatives from nearly 200 countries are working on a…

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'Fool's Gold' Aids Discovery of New Options for Cheap, Benign Solar Energy

By studying the solar absorption properties of pyrite, scientists have discovered chemically similar materials that could replace more…

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