News Type - Any -AlumniAwards and AccoladesGeneralGraduateIn the NewsIndustry and BusinessNewsletterResearchUndergraduate Year - Any -2024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012 Related IEE Person Apply Data Barns in a Farm Town, Gobbling Power and Flexing Muscle Data centers require a large amount of energy and space. In 2006, Microsoft bought 75 acres of bean fields in Washington State to build… September 25, 2012 Industry and Business Power, Pollution and the Internet Data centers have become increasingly important as more information is shared and put online. Yet, a recent study found that data… September 24, 2012 Industry and Business New Material Could Make Thermoelectric Power Practical Thermoelectric materials can be used to generate electrical current from waste heat. Researchers have made a new thermoelectric material… September 20, 2012 Research Umesh Mishra Receives Welker Award for Achievements in Energy Efficient Semiconductor Research Institute Faculty Member, Umesh Mishra, was awarded the Heinrich Welker Award for “sustained leadership in the development of gallium… September 20, 2012 Awards and Accolades Onward California: John Bowers Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency, John Bowers, is Onward California's first featured story. John discusses our many areas… September 19, 2012 Alumni, Graduate, Undergraduate Next Generation of LEDs Shuji Nakamura, the 2006 Millennium Prize winner, along with his colleagues James Speck and Steven DenBaars have created the "first LED… September 18, 2012 Awards and Accolades Sensors Are Key to Better EV Batteries Two coalitions of companies are now making tiny, lightweight sensors that could make lithium-ion batteries smaller, cheaper, and safer.… September 17, 2012 Industry and Business China Widens Renewables Lead Over U.S. in Ernst & Young Ranking China widened its lead over the U.S. in a renewable energy ranking compiled by consultant Ernst & Young that gauges the… September 14, 2012 Industry and Business SunPower’s C7 Tracker System in 6 MW Solar Farm at Tucson Electric Power This past January, SunPower unveiled the first commercial deployment of its C7 low-concentration photovoltaic tracker. The concentrator… September 14, 2012 New York is First City to Publish Energy Data for Private Buildings New York City has publicly posted 2011 energy benchmarking results for over 2,000 large commercial properties. This is the first time… September 12, 2012 Industry and Business California’s 1-Gigawatt Solar Milestone: What Does It Mean? California surpassed one gigawatt of solar power production last month. One gigawatt can meet the instantaneous demand of at least 750,… September 11, 2012 Industry and Business Institute for Energy Efficiency Announces Holbrook Foundation Fellows September 11, 2012 Graduate Built-In Germanium Lasers Could Make Computer Chips Faster Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute studied how to make the semiconductor germanium emit laser light. This could be the basis for… September 10, 2012 Research NREL Taps HP, Intel for ‘World’s Most Efficient’ Data Center The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has selected Hewlett Packard and Intel to provide what it says will… September 7, 2012 Industry and Business California Stages Successful Cap-and-Trade Trial California officials have completed a successful trial of its much-anticipated carbon trading scheme. The cap-and-trade platform will be… September 6, 2012 Industry and Business Air Conditioning a Warming and Modernizing World Air conditioners consume a large amount of energy. Nearly all of the world’s booming cities are in the tropics and will be home to an… September 5, 2012 Industry and Business Pagination First page « Previous page ‹ … Page 57 Current page 58 Page 59 Page 60 … Next page › Last page »