A jointly-developed evaluation kit from STMicroelectronics and Micropelt  combines thermal electrical energy harvesting and solid-state thin-film battery to drive autonomous wireless sensor applications for as long as there is energy to harvest. STMicroelectronics, a leading supplier of semiconductors for power and power management applications, and Micropelt, a German company specializing in novel thin film thermoelectric devices, have announced […]

Lighting Science Group unveiled a DEFINITY line 9 watt LED A19 bulb that will retail in the low $30 range and is a direct replacement for America’s most commonly used 60 watt incandescent bulb. Stunning the competition, Lighting Science Group’s breakthrough 770 lumen DEFINITY LED bulb surpasses the U.S. Department of Energy’s benchmark testing of […]

The ZigBee Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, residential, commercial and consumer electronics applications, today announced it has made the draft 0.7 document of ZigBee Smart Energy version 2.0 available for public download and comment. This draft is being provided in conjunction with the Alliance’s previously announced […]

It’s a daunting challenge erecting the largest net-zero-energy office building in the world. It’s especially daunting when that building will be full of people computing, teleconferencing, and generating teraflops of information about renewable energy. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory aims to generate as much energy as it uses in the new 222,000-square-foot U.S. Department of […]

For the fourth year in a row, the University of Pennsylvania has emerged as the top individual school in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2009-2010 College and University Green Power Challenge. The university beat out 53 other universities by purchasing more than 192 million kilowatt hours (KWh) of green power, or 46 percent of […]

BRISTOL, United Kingdom, April 21, 2010 – Her Majesty the Queen, head of state of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, has awarded a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category to DuPont for the continuous development of DuPont Solamet photovoltaic metallization paste, a key component in increasing the energy efficiency of solar cells. […]

(Oregon State University) – Researchers have made an important breakthrough in the use of continuous flow microreactors to produce thin film absorbers for solar cells – an innovative technology that could significantly reduce the cost of solar energy devices and reduce material waste. The advance was just reported in Current Applied Physics, a professional journal, […]

It’s no wonder that many of Earth Day’s most ardent supporters are children. Environmental education is growing into a fixture in classrooms across the United States. Students are often eager to put their lessons in sustainability into practice at home. In turn, children are often the ones to push their parents towards energy efficiency. Influential […]

(AP) — Hydrogen, one of Earth’s most abundant elements, once was seen as green energy’s answer to the petroleum-driven car: easy to produce, available everywhere and nonpolluting when burned. Hydrogen energy was defeated by a mountain of obstacles – the fear of explosion by the highly flammable gas, the difficulty of carrying the fuel in […]