All News News Type - Any -AlumniAwards and AccoladesGeneralGraduateIn the NewsIndustry and BusinessNewsletterResearchUndergraduate Year - Any -2024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012 Related IEE Person Apply 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… January 4, 2013 Industry and Business 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… January 3, 2013 Research Obama Signs Energy Efficiency Legislation President Obama signed the American Energy Manufacturing Technical Corrections Act on Wednesday after the bill received bipartisan… December 19, 2012 Industry and Business 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… December 18, 2012 Research 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,… December 17, 2012 Industry and Business 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… December 14, 2012 Industry and Business 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… December 13, 2012 Research 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… December 10, 2012 Industry and Business 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,… December 10, 2012 Industry and Business 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… December 7, 2012 Industry and Business 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… December 6, 2012 Research 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"… December 4, 2012 Industry and Business 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… December 3, 2012 Industry and Business 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… November 29, 2012 In the News 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… November 29, 2012 Industry and Business '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… November 28, 2012 Research Pagination First page « Previous page ‹ … Page 52 Current page 53 Page 54 Page 55 … Next page › Last page »