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Jun
24

Best Buy, GE team up to fast-track smart device sales

Best Buy has teamed up with GE to fast-track the commercial availability of two energy efficiency technologies singled out last
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Jun
24

Tucson utility aims for 7x more solar energy by 2014

Tucson Electric Power (TEP)  is on track to add what will be its largest single source of solar energy yet.
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Jun
24

Meter-related energy savings are small, but can add up

A major energy-use research project just published in the UK finds that, while individual households equipped with smart meters might
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Jun
24

Utility-scale solar a 'viable reality,' Amonix says

Now on its seventh generation of concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar technology, Amonix has been around longer — since 1989 — than many
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Jun
24

IBM 'camp' hunts for the best energy, tech startups

With a future set to be populated by smart phones, smart meters, smart homes and smart grids, what other “smarts”
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Jun
24

UK's future rests with a smarter power grid, group says

A new cross-industry organization in Great Britain will work to promote the development of the nation’s smart energy grid.
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Jun
24

Geothermal innovations get $11 million boost

The US is betting that new ways of extracting geothermal energy from the Earth could help put it on the
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Jun
23

IEA's 60 million barrels a short-term feel-good

The decision by 28 International Energy Agency (IEA) member countries to release 60 million barrels of oil in the coming
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Jun
23

Southwest Solar hits 'big milestone' in next-gen CSP

Southwest Solar Technologies has successfully tested a high-temperature air receiver prototype that will eventually be used to test the company’
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Jun
23

UK needs £100bn+ 'surge' in new energy investments

British officials see the need for a massive investment in the country’s energy infrastructure in the near future. The
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