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Engineers have found a way to produce thin film solar electronics using inexpensive inkjet printing technologies.

Suntech Power's process for making solar cells leverages 20 year old technology to increase silicon solar cell efficiency by up to 20…

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Graphite-based "heat spreaders" in cell phones could make it possible to build lighter car batteries with the same number of cells.

The latest Johnson Controls survey breaks down the major factors driving energy efficiency worldwide.

Microinverter startup SolarBridge plans to change the way solar panels convert current.

New zinc battery technology shows promise for gridscale energy storage.

A GM-funded bus uses lithium titanate to charge batteries in 10 minutes.

UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency announces the release of a white paper which recommends improvements and actions…

A product of the two-day workshop held in December 2010 by the Institute for Energy Efficiency, this new white paper provides and…

University of Pennsylvania engineers have proposed the possibility of 'two-dimensional' metamaterials that could be achieved by…

Battery startup Primus Power's newly designed flow batteries could make grid scale energy storage cheaper.

The Institute announces Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) as the latest member of it's Industry Partners Program.

A research team at the University of Texas has made interesting new structures from graphene. The one atom thick material forms a…

Brad Williams at Oracle outlines what's expected next for the smart grid from regulators and customers in this market .

A startup hopes to commercialize a novel battery design that features fluid electrodes and will hopefully make electric vehicles go…