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Trees Can Save Home-Cooling Costs and Cut Carbon Emissions

A big tree next to your house can do more than just save home-cooling costs, it will also cut carbon emissions, University of Florida researchers say.

16 Dec 2014

Stanford Awarded Eight Seed Grants for Promising New Research in Clean Technology and Energy Efficiency

Stanford University's Precourt Institute for Energy, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy have awarded eight seed grants totaling about $1.5 million for promising new research in clean technology and energy efficiency.

15 Dec 2014

Patent-Pending Technology for Optimizing Performance of Wind Plants

To harness the wind – it is not a question of “if” rather, “when.”
A patent-pending concept developed at Texas Tech University could make it happen for wind plants around the world.

25 Nov 2014

Drag-Reducing Devices Can Help Reduce Fuel Consumption

Each year, the more than 2 million tractor-trailer trucks that cruise America's highways consume about 36 billion gallons of diesel fuel, representing more than 10 percent of the nation's entire petroleum use. That fuel consumption could be reduced by billions of gallons a year through the use of drag-reducing devices on trucks, according to studies by researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

25 Nov 2014

NORESCO Wins $43 Million Energy Savings Performance Contract at U.S. Army's Fort Jackson in Columbia

NORESCO, a national leader in energy efficiency and energy infrastructure solutions, has won a $43 million energy savings performance contract for work at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina, the U.S. Army's largest and most active basic combat training center.

24 Nov 2014

TU Wien Implements Innovative 'Energy-Plus' Office Building

The 'Plus-Energie-Bürohochhaus' (Energy-plus office tower) is the first office tower in the world to be able to claim to feed more energy into the power grid than is required to operate AND use the building. Innovation Minister Alois Stöger opened the building on the TU's Getreidemarkt campus on 6 November 2014.

20 Nov 2014

Trina Solar Sets New Records for High Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells

Trina Solar Limited, a global leader in photovoltaic (PV) modules, solutions and services, today announced that its State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology of China has set new world records for high efficiency p-type and n-type silicon solar cells.

From Trina Solar Limited 19 Nov 2014

Albemarle Receives Excellence in Environmental Leadership Award for Bromine Recovery Unit

Albemarle Corporation, a leader in the global specialty chemicals industry, announced that it has received the Diamond Award for Excellence in Environmental Leadership by the Arkansas Environmental Federation for its Bromine Recovery Unit located in the Magnolia, Arkansas facility.

19 Nov 2014

Mestex to Present Energy-Efficient Approaches for Data Center Cooling at CATEE 2014

Data centers, which consume vast amounts of energy, are expected to triple in the next few years as web traffic, cloud computing and the "Internet of Things" continues to grow. One company, Dallas-based Mestex, has developed innovative energy-efficient approaches for data center cooling, which accounts for more than 50 percent of all energy consumed by data centers.

19 Nov 2014

UCLA Methanol Processing Method Could Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Lower Production Costs

Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a more efficient way to turn methanol into useful chemicals, such as liquid fuels, and that would also reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

17 Nov 2014