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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…

Google is teaming up with Lighting Science to develop a bulb that is controllable from an Android phone. The bulbs will communicate…

A new LED bulb technology by Switch fills the bulb dome with a nontoxic liquid to draw heat away from the LEDs housed inside. The bulbs…

Power company AES is in the process of scaling up its lithium-ion grid battery projects to a commercial size, and by the third quarter…

A group of researchers at MIT have devised an experimental thermoelectric device that converts solar heat directly into power via the…

A startup called Nanotune has developed a way to make electrodes that result in ultracapacitors with five to seven times as much energy…

A new battery device developed by researchers at Stanford draws power from the salinity difference between freshwater and saltwater and…

Advances in higher-voltage power electronics could usher in a new distribution grid architecture, underpinning the future smart grid.…

A startup called TenKsolar says it can increase the amount of solar power generated on rooftops by 25 to 50 percent by changing the way…