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Physiological Significance of Coccolith Formation Can Help Promote Efficient Bioenergy Production

Researchers at Hiroshima University and the University of Tsukuba showed that coccolith disks made of calcium carbonate in Emiliania huxleyi, one of the promising biomass resources, potentially perform roles in reducing and enhancing the light that enters the cell by light scattering.

3 Sep 2015

Berkeley Lab Energy Analysis – Electricity Consumption by Gaming Computers per Year is $10 Billion

In the world of computer gaming, bragging rights are accorded to those who can boast of blazing-fast graphics cards, the most powerful processors, the highest-resolution monitors, and the coolest decorative lighting. They are not bestowed upon those crowing about the energy efficiency of their system. If they were, gaming computers worldwide might well be consuming billions of dollars less in electricity use annually, with no loss in performance, according to new research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

1 Sep 2015

Three Future Micro-Engineers Develop Interactive Website – Social Network on Energy

Summer series on student projects: Three future micro-engineers have developed an interactive website – a sort of social network about energy – in order to link grid operators with users and encourage users to reduce their electricity consumption and share their ideas.

1 Sep 2015

ReneSola Announces Sale of its 34.6MW Utility Scale Project to Foresight Group

ReneSola Ltd, a leading brand and technology provider of energy-efficient products, today announced that it has sold its 34.6 MW Port Farms utility scale project in the United Kingdom to Foresight Solar Fund Limited.

31 Aug 2015

Greenlots Partners with CapitaLand and BMW Group Asia to Provide Additional Charging Stations in Singapore

Greenlots, a global provider of open standards-based technology solutions for electric vehicle (EV) networks, partners with CapitaLand, one of Asia's largest real estate developers, and BMW Group Asia to provide Singapore's growing population of electric vehicle (EV) and Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) owners with additional charging stations in the Central Business District (CBD) and beyond.

31 Aug 2015

Ross Solar Group Installs Two High Efficiency Solar Panels for Gengras Motor Cars

The Ross Solar Group has completed two record setting solar installations for Gengras Motor Cars at the dealership group's Volvo and Chevrolet facilities on Connecticut Blvd., in East Hartford Conn. Comprised of 1,280 high efficiency SunPower E-Series solar panels, the two systems, are the largest single SunPower rooftop solar installations to date in East Hartford.

27 Aug 2015

NREL Assists Federal Agencies on Energy Efficiency Efforts and Renewable Energy Technology

When it comes to energy use, what the federal government wants is more of less. That means fewer greenhouse gases, fewer buildings powered solely by electricity generated from fossil fuels, and fewer gas-guzzling fleets on the road.

27 Aug 2015

Collaboration to Advance Distributed Power System for Cleaner, More Efficient Electricity

Sandia National Laboratories and eight other companies and research organizations will collaborate to advance a distributed power system that can produce cleaner, more efficient electricity.

24 Aug 2015

Simplifying Organic Solar Cell Configuration for Better Efficiency

A team of researchers from Purdue University has proposed a theory that opposes a basic assumption about the operation of organic solar cells created from cheap plastics and suggests an innovative technique to produce solar technology in an economical manner.

20 Aug 2015

Borrego Solar and LG Extend Agreement to Bring High-Efficiency Solar Modules to U.S. Commercial Market

LG Electronics USA and Borrego Solar Systems Inc. are expanding their collaboration for installation of LG's high-efficiency solar modules to the U.S. commercial market, the companies announced today.

13 Aug 2015