Smart Grid: On its way?slowly

29 Oct, 2009 11:11 am Yesterday, President Obama travelled to Arcadia, Florida, home to one of the nation?s biggest solar power plants, to announce 100 grants providing a total...

Symbolism? German Solar Team Bests U.S. In Shadow of U.S. Capitol

21 Oct, 2009 01:13 pm Team Germany has emerged victorious from the three-week Solar Decathlon that overtook the National Mall in D.C., shedding a solar-powered spotlight on...

Energy Efficiency: How NOT To Do It

13 Oct, 2009 03:31 pm On October 5, First Energy (NYSE: FE) announced a planned energy efficiency program, involving the delivery of two compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs)...

Domestic heat pumps: enthusiasm needs to be tempered

12 Jun, 2009 03:53 pm Domestic heat pumps: enthusiasm needs to be tempered Friday 12 June 2009 in uncategorized by Chris Goodall | No comments Mitsubishi Ecodan. Image source...

Where are electricity demand reductions coming from? Not from where we hoped

2 Jun, 2009 02:07 pm Electricity demand has fallen substantially in the last couple of years and shows no sign of recovery. The cause could be: the impact of economic slowdown...

New industries: a dramatic use of energy

29 Apr, 2009 10:00 am In a study published in Environmental Science &Technology, researchers from the MIT and the University of Kentucky used a thermodynamic framework to characterize...

Financing the Fifth Fuel

20 Jan, 2009 11:20 am if energy efficiency is so great, why isn't it more widely pursued? Certainly, one of the key reasons is that energy efficiency seems so, well,...