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November 15, 2012

At Finnish ‘research hotel,’ the top amenity is efficiency

Foreign students will get more than just a place to stay while visiting the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland — they’ll also help the VTT investigate new ways to encourage people to control their home energy use. That’s because [...]

May 18, 2012

Top resources for the energy-efficient office

Go online and do a search for “energy-efficient office” and you’ll get results numbering in the millions … an overwhelming output for the average entrepreneur who’s just looking for simple, straightforward advice on how to make technology at work more [...]

March 19, 2012

US industry wastes way too much energy, coalition says

With wasted electricity accounting for nearly 25 percent of their total energy consumption, industries in the US need a lot more help in cutting their energy use and improving their efficiency, a new industrial coalition says. The policies and investment [...]

February 28, 2012

Eat your efficiency: Good for us but hard to swallow

Why is it people continue to do so many things they know aren’t good for them: eating fast food, smoking, bungee-jumping over the Zambezi River and … wasting energy? It’s just human nature: changing habits is hard, even when the [...]

February 8, 2012

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 “Green Deal” by creating a new division in his department: the Energy Efficiency Deployment Office, or [...]

January 13, 2012

Would banks lend again if they could get a cut of your power bill?

A common complaint in the “new normal” aftermath of the global financial crisis is that banks, despite receiving massive bailouts, aren’t lending … especially not to small-business owners or individuals. But would they be more likely to issue loans if [...]

November 2, 2011

DC power makes modular data centers even more efficient

There’s more to building an efficient data center than virtualization, advanced energy monitoring and renewables. Two technology companies — ABB and IO — say data centers could be made 10 to 20 percent more efficient by using direct current (DC), [...]

October 21, 2011

Massachusetts flexes efficiency muscles, ousts CA for top spot

California has fallen from its first-place position as most energy-efficient state, with Massachusetts taking over the title. That’s not a sign that California is doing badly at efficiency, though, but an indication of how many more states are recognizing the [...]

October 17, 2011

From here to efficiency: People want to change, but don’t know how

People across Europe and the US see energy efficiency as an important way to help them save money. But many of them also aren’t getting the information they need to make the most of the efficiency opportunities that are available. [...]

September 26, 2011

ABB invests in NASA-favored IT energy management firm

The company behind the technology NASA is using to cut energy consumption at more than 75 data centers has closed on $13.5 million in funding led by ABB. Other investors in Power Assure, which provides energy management software for data [...]

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