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McCormick Distribution Center Achieves Net-Zero Energy Status

The spice and seasoning company now generates more energy than it consumes. McCormick & Company built a solar array, and it reduced…

Industry and Business

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Konarka’s Organic Photovoltaic Modules Pass Aging Tests Performed by TÜV Rheinland

Konarka announces its organic photovoltaic modules are the first OPV technology to pass aging tests performed by TÜV Rheinland. Industry…

Industry and Business

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Renewable Energy Investment Increases to $263 Billion

Last week, Pew Charitable Trusts released a report indicating global renewable energy finance and investment rose to $263 billion in…

Industry and Business

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The Computing Trend that Will Change Everything

Computing is becoming increasingly cheaper and more energy efficient. The electrical efficiency of computing has doubled every year and…

Industry and Business

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LEDs that Burn 10 Times Brighter

Soraa thinks it can make LEDs cheap enough to replace regular bulbs. The company was founded by Institute faculty Dr. Shuji Nakamura, Dr…

In the News, Industry and Business

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University of California, Santa Barbara Brings Cool to School

UC Santa Barbara-- home to the Institute for Energy Efficiency-- was honored by Southern California Edison and The Climate Registry for…

Graduate, Undergraduate

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Inventing the Clean Room

The energy problem is humanity's greatest challenge. Here's how information technology can provide some answers.

Industry and Business

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U.S. Inches Toward Goal of Energy Independence

Increasing production and declining consumption of gasoline and oil have unexpectedly brought the United States markedly closer to…

Industry and Business

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Big Breakthrough for "Small Molecule" Organic Photovoltaics

UC Santa Barbara researchers set efficiency records through a new method of producing organic solar cell materials. Two faculty members…

Research

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Take the Subway

Thomas Friedman explains how green technologies will become more and more profitable in the future as the scarcity of resources and…

Industry and Business

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New Institute Report on Scalable, Energy-Efficient Data Centers and Clouds

UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency and the Kavli Foundation announce a Report that identifies four issues that must be…

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Liquid Air for Utility-Scale Energy Storage?

U.K.-based startup Highview Power Storage offers super-cooled air as a cost-competitive way to store energy for the grid.

Industry and Business

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A Big Jump in Battery Capacity

Envia, a company funded by GM and the the U.S. government's Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy, must overcome a few key issues…

Industry and Business

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Battery to Take On Diesel and Natural Gas

Aquion Energy hopes to bring electricity to developing nations across the globe without using the grid.

Industry and Business

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Biologically-Inspired High-Power Batteries Poised to Charge into the Marketplace

Institute for Energy Efficiency faculty member Dan Morse leads the development of a high-power, nanostructured battery with…

Research

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Press Release: UC Santa Barbara Professor Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Institute faculty member, Steven Denbaars is elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

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