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Partnership between Johnson Controls and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee earns 2013 Gold Edison Award for innovation
Johnson Controls, a global diversified company in the building and automotive industries, is a 2013 Gold Award Winner by the internationally renowned Edison Awards for its recent groundbreaking collaboration with the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (UWM). This distinguished award symbolizes the persistence and excellence personified by Thomas Alva Edison, inspiring creative minds to ...
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Johnson Controls Teams Up With University of Wisconsin System in Energy Storage Research
Johnson Controls, Inc. (NYSE: JCI), the world's leading automotive battery supplier, is helping to position Wisconsin as a worldwide leader in energy storage. The company today announced it is endowing a professorship, research labs and graduate studies in energy storage at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. "Between our scientists and the talented ...
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U.N. secretary-general Ban Ki-moon to Visit NREL on Aug. 24
Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon will visit the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on Wednesday, August 24 at 2:30 p.m. The Secretary General will learn about NREL’s International efforts including meeting key staff and researchers who contributed to the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on ...
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NREL Launches Electrification Futures Study Series
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is spearheading the Electrification Futures Study, a research collaboration to explore the impacts of widespread electrification in all U.S. economic sectors commercial and residential buildings, transportation, and industry.Over the next two years, NREL and its research partners Electric Power Research Institute, Evolved ...
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Changing of the guard
Back in Washington city itself, the seats were filled at the Caribou Coffee shop a block west of the White House – that informal political center of the American system where meetings on the future of the country can be conveniently held without being recorded on the White House logs. But it was not the grand poobahs of policy that are holding court now, but the headhunters. The quiet ...
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NREL Details Great Potential for Floating PV Systems
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers estimate that installing floating solar photovoltaics on the more than 24,000 man-made U.S. reservoirs could generate about 10 percent of the nation’s annual electricity production. Their findings, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, reveal for the first time the potential for floating PV to produce ...
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Lab receives an additional $40.3 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment act funding
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will receive $40.3 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support research in biofuels, fusion energy and the nation’s power grid and to ensure scientists have state-of-the-art equipment for their investigations. This new funding is in addition to ...
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ITRI Wins R&D 100 Awards for Fifth Year in a Row
ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute), Taiwan's largest and one of the world's leading high-tech research and development institutions, will accept six 2012 R&D 100 Awards in Orlando, Fla., on Nov. 1, 2012. ITRI was selected as a winner for the fifth consecutive year, collecting six awards for the following advanced technologies in their respective categories: Lignoxy?, ...
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DOE Announces $18 Million to Streamline Commercialization of Clean Energy Technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy this week (July 14) announced $18.4 million through the Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) for seven national laboratory projects with the goal of getting more clean energy technologies to the marketplace. The selected national laboratories will address barriers, gaps, and root causes of commercialization challenges for emerging clean energy technologies. ...
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FirmGreen Launches Research & Development Lab in U.S.
FirmGreen announces the launch of FirmGreen Labs, its Green Energy Research & Development facility in Kokomo, Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis — host city to Super Bowl XLVI. Kokomo, known as the ‘City of Firsts’ because of the large number of patents awarded its citizens over the last 100+ years, continues that history of innovation as home to FirmGreen’s first ...
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Berkeley Lab researchers announce OpenADR specification to ease saving power in buildings through demand response
A new data model developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and their colleagues at other universities and in the private sector will help facilities and buildings save power through automated demand response technology, and advance the development of the Smart Grid. The researchers who developed Open ADR (Open Automated Demand Response) are part ...
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Fervo Energy Announces Technology Breakthrough in Next-Generation Geothermal
Fervo Energy, a leader in next-generation geothermal technology, this week (July 18) announced that it has successfully completed the well test at its full-scale commercial pilot, Project Red, in northern Nevada. The company notes that the successful well test confirms the commercial viability of Fervo's drilling technology and establishes Project Red as the most productive enhanced geothermal ...
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DOE, Israel's Ministry of Energy, and Israel Innovation Authority Announce U.S.-Israel Energy Center Winners
On Friday, March 6, 2020, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette and Israel's Minister of Energy Dr. Yuval Steinitz announced three winners to receive up to $27.6 million under the U.S.-Israel Energy Center competitive funding opportunity. Three consortia, comprised of U.S. and Israeli organizations, will undertake five years of research, development, and commercialization of innovative energy ...
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Merger and Acquisition Activity Gains Pace in the Renewable Energy Sector in North America, Finds Frost & Sullivan
The renewable energy sector in North America is experiencing intense merger and acquisition (M&A) activity. As visionaries strove to identify appropriate targets and valuation metrics, the number of deals grew by two-thirds year-on-year in 2011, although the total deal value decreased by one-third, from $48.8 billionin 2010 to $33.4 billionin 2011. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan's ...
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Berkeley Lab awarded $15.9 million in recovery act funding for new Net-Zero Energy Buildings national user facility
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will build and operate a new National User Facility for Net-Zero Energy Buildings using a competitively selected award of $15.9 million in stimulus funds from the U.S. Department of Energy. This facility will contain a set of test beds for building systems integration designed to address key technical challenges for net-zero energy buildings. The Department ...
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New path to solar energy via solid-state photovoltaics
A newly discovered path for the conversion of sunlight to electricity could brighten the future for photovoltaic technology. Researchers with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have found a new mechanism by which the photovoltaic effect can take place in semiconductor thin-films. This new route to energy production overcomes the bandgap voltage limitation that continues to ...
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NREL receives numerous accolades from industry and DOE
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE)’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and its employees have garnered awards and recognition from industry groups for advancing energy research as well as furthering the lab’s sustainable operating practices. Bryan Pivovar Named Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator by the Electrochemical Society The Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator ...
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Berkeley Lab Helps California Get to Zero Net Energy Homes
California has established ambitious goals to reduce energy consumption in buildings, including a policy goal for all new residential buildings to be zero net energy (ZNE) by 2020. Now the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has launched two projects to help the state meet its ZNE building goals. One project will provide detailed cost and performance ...
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NETL’s green projects promise energy efficiency all year round
Forty years after the first Earth Day, it is almost second nature to toss a can or plastic bottle into the recycling bin, but being green is about much more than reusing materials. Just as individuals make a personal decision to “reduce, reuse, and recycle,” businesses, industry, and other organizations are making the same commitment to being green. With our increased awareness and commitment to ...
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Berkeley Lab experts assist in the greening of China
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists Lynn Price and Nan Zhou expected the long banquet and endless toasting. What they did not expect on a recent trip to a cement plant in central China was a three-hour variety show by the factory employees, complete with folk dancing, song-and-dance numbers and comedians. Even more surprising were the lyrics to one of the songs: “I started to listen ...
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