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China Gets into Demand Response with Help From Honeywell

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

Industry and Business

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To Curb Power Consumption, SeaMicro Rethinks Servers

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

Industry and Business

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Eliminating the Laptop Charging Brick

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

In the News, Research

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Institute Faculty Member's Startup Backed by Google Ventures

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

In the News, Industry and Business

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New Materials Make Photovoltaics Better

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

Industry and Business

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IT Comes First for Data Center Efficiency

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

Industry and Business

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The Dirty Energy Party

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

Industry and Business

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A Twin-Cell Solar Panel

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

Industry and Business

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Update: Solar Junction Drives CPV Efficiency Even Higher

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

Industry and Business

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Smart Grid Lessons From the Super Bowl Week Outages in Texas

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

Industry and Business

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What You Need to Know About Obama’s Budget & Energy

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

Industry and Business

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Obama, Better Buildings and the Innovators

Obama’s "Better Building Initiative" may attract new innovators to the energy efficiency sector by providing incentives to reduce…

Industry and Business

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DOE Designs Energy-Saving AC Units

The Department of Energy says it has developed a new design for rooftop air conditioning units that would reduce energy consumption by…

Industry and Business

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Teaming Tenants and Landlords for Energy Savings

Under a lease with a sustainability clause, tenants can divide the savings from energy efficiency with the landlord, and those savings…

Industry and Business

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The Key to Better Solar Cells: Bumpy Mirrors

Stanford University researchers have developed a nanoscale metal reflector that boosts the efficiency of solid electrolyte dye-…

Research

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Cree Unfurls its Household LED Bulb

Cree recently announced a new product: the TrueWhite LED bulb, which will provide 800 lumens of light (equivalent to the light output of…

Industry and Business