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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…

In addition to its 50 LEED-certified facilities, the University of California system has implemented a number of programs to improve…

A solar-powered LED light developed at UC Santa Barbara does more than reduce energy consumption.

A solar-powered LED light developed at UC Santa Barbara does more than reduce energy consumption.

GigaOM's Katie Fehrenbacher interviews Institute faculty member Umesh Mishra about his startup company, Transphorm.

This Department of Energy report identifies emerging technologies that benefit from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy…

Philips Lighting has unveiled a new 75-watt equivalent LED bulb while Philips spinoff NXP announced that it has developed GreenChip, a…

Institute faculty members' research featured on DOE energy blog.

The City of Seattle has launched a formal benchmarking program to measure and track the energy efficiency of its commercial buildings by…