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Do people have a right to be inefficient?

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Air Force challenge: Cutting energy bills for 626 million square feet

It’s hard enough trying to make your house or apartment as energy-efficient as possible: replacing windows, adding insulation, programming the thermostat, adjusting the temperature
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Energy efficiency: Green economy’s neglected stepchild?

Is efficiency becoming like the weather, in that everyone talks about it but nobody does anything about it? Europe has ambitious 2020 climate and
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Among Energy Stars, schools outnumber businesses 5:1

Businesses will lead the way to a sustainable tomorrow, we’re often told. And corporations — not governments — know best how to maximize efficiency
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Does energy efficiency matter?

Just days on the job, Britain’s new Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey sent the message that he is serious about the government’s









Latest Insight

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China ‘dumping’ low-cost solar cells on market? US says ‘yes’

Have China’s solar cell makers been “dumping” their products on the US market
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The 10 most water-stressed countries in the world

From space, our planet might look like a “big blue marble” rich with
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Top resources for the energy-efficient office

Go online and do a search for “energy-efficient office” and you’ll get results
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Energy companies eye UK’s billion-pound bet on carbon capture

Several leading energy companies are expressing interest in working
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How many smart meters are there in the US?

It hasn’t always been smooth sailing — still isn’t,
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Colorado welcomes world’s largest concentrating PV power plant

With the opening of the Alamosa Solar generating facility,

LATEST REPORTS
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Who’s the leading smart-city brand?

More than half of the world’s nearly seven billion people now live in urban areas, and that proportion is expected to reach almost 69 per cent by 2050. To avoid pushing local and global systems to the point of collapse, cities will need to become much smarter and more efficient Read more ...
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Managing the smart-grid data overload

Developing the UK’s smart-grid infrastructure will require communications and data technologies that can manage far more information than utilities must handle today. That’s the focus of a strategy report from Greenbang Research: “Enabling the UK’s smart-grid future: The wireless spectrum debate.” The report answers such questions as: Should dedicated Read more ...
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Incentives fire up UK solar market

The introduction of the feed-in tariff (FIT) incentive policy on 1 April has sparked an explosive reaction in the UK renewable energy market with solar leading the way in installations, according to a new Greenbang research report titled, “The UK’s Feed-in Tariff: Impact, response and market trends for the decade Read more ...
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