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Energy Star “Most Efficient” Becomes Gold Standard for Appliances
The Energy Star program, a joint undertaking between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, is designed to identify those appliances, building...
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LG: "Life's Good" or "Life's Green"?
LG has joined the race of consumer electronics companies vying to be the most sustainable in the world – a growing list that includes Panasonic, Samsung and Toshiba.read more
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DOE Commits Funds to Support Obama Administration Fuel Efficiency Standards
In order to support recent fuel efficiency standards mandated by President Barack Obama, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) has committed $175 million to accelerate the development and...
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DOE Awards More Than $145 Million for Future Solar Tech
Solar roofing shingles. Image credit: Dow ChemicalThe U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), under Energy Secretary Steven Chu, recently announced the awarding of more than $145 million to 69 projects in 49...
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DOE Awards More than $150M for Biofuels, EV Motors, other ARPA-E Projects
Image courtesy CinciTDI.comThe U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, has awarded $156 million in funding for cutting-edge energy technology projects running the gamut from innovative plant-based fuels to...
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US VC Investment in Cleantech Jumps to $1.1B in Q3
According to a new report by Ernst & Young, U.S. venture capital (VC) investments in cleantech rose by 73 percent, to $1.1 billion, in the third quarter of 2011, in spite of a global slowdown in...
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NREL Tests Electric Vehicles to Optimize Performance With Power Grids
Chris YarzabResearchers from the United States Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have released a report that could help optimize the way electric vehicles (EVs) and...
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Semprius Achieves 41 Percent Efficiency
On December 14, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, or NREL, announced that it had confirmed an efficiency rating greater than 41 percent for solar cells made by Durham, North Carolina-based...
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NREL's REDB Represents “Plug-n-Play” Smart Grid Integration Technology
NREL's REDB facilityOne of the miracles of the electronic age is the ability to plug almost any device into a computer and have it perform as described without any further effort on the part of the...
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InMotive: Revolutionizing Energy Transmission
When Serbian-American engineer Nikola Tesla came up with the design of his alternating current induction motor — which truly revolutionized the way we thought about electricity — it is said he was...
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