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The lower costs that can result from energy-efficiency improvements (e.g. better fuel economy, utility bill savings, etc.) can…

Venture firms have funded many electrochemical technologies for utility-scale energy storage, but issues with cost, long-term…

Congress is providing increased funding support to ARPA-E at a time when many programs face cuts.

Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center has developed a new printing technology that promises to pack more energy into batteries for electric…

Industry, academia, and government to address the latest in science and technology for a sustainable energy future.

China currently does not have demand response as we know it, but--partly as a result of recent regulations--a subsidiary of China's…

SeaMicro's new computer consists of 256 independently functioning servers; the computer contains about the same amount of computing…

Institute faculty member's start-up says gallium nitride could make power electronics more efficient.

Institute faculty member Umesh Mishra's start-up company, Transphorm, has come up with a set of chips that could substantially curb…

Startup Solar Junction says it can beat the performance of the most efficient solar cells on the market today.

There’s a divide within data centers today between the people who manage data center cooling, power and security systems, and the IT…

This New York Times editorial discusses Obama's energy policy and the Republicans' reaction to it.

Stion has funding through a White House initiative to develop a new type of low-cost, high-efficiency solar panel. The panels combine…

Just a month after making an announcement about a 40.9 percent efficiency multi-junction production cell, Solar Junction has announced…

Last week’s events in Texas help illustrate that building an ever-expanding fleet of gas-fired peaking plants may not solve all our…

President Obama's proposed budget calls for boosting funding to the Department of Energy by nearly 12 percent. The spending plan focuses…