Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:00:22 +0000
There’s a street in El Paso where things are a little strange. Instead of a bright white LED light bathing … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:28:47 +0000
This week we celebrated National Cut Your Energy Costs Day! Every day the Department of Energy is committed to providing you … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:35:47 +0000
South Africa’s Shoprite Group is expanding its key environmental programs as part of its sustainability strategy. One of the major components of this strategy is the accelerated rollout of solar PV at its supermarkets and distribution centers, as well as the replacement of old lighting infrastructure with new LED lightbulbs. Shoprite operates in 11 African […]
Credit to Author: Naomi Cole & Joe Wachunas| Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 14:43:20 +0000
This is a story of electricity beating gas. In 2021, we decided to fix up a duplex in Cleveland, Ohio, that has been in our family for 75 years. After some serious aesthetic and sustainable improvements, we unintentionally ran a multi-year case study in which we experimented with two identical housing units–one powered by gas […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2023 14:59:08 +0000
Apply for EAS-E Prize Phase 1 by March 8 To Compete for $2.4 Million in Prizes and Technical Assistance To Accelerate Fast, Easy, and Scalable Home Electrification Solutions
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2022 22:00:47 +0000
Local schools are our most powerful mechanism for shaping the future. Ideally, they give the next generation critical skills and knowledge, promote equity and, through free breakfast and lunch programs, ensure that no child goes hungry. Just think what local schools might accomplish if we tapped their potential to combat climate change. As my company […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 18:30:25 +0000
As you can probably imagine, clean technology sites and the people who write for them get a lot of weird e-mails and DMs. The supposed inventors of perpetual motion machines (including some really odd ones that use lard) like to reach out from time to time. There are also the right-wing whack jobs who hate […]
Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 15:14:14 +0000
The $309 million DC Smart Street Lighting Project announced by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will modernize more than 75,000 lights throughout the District. The project has been praised as the nation’s largest urban streetlight modernization project. It will convert all of the city’s street and alley lights to energy-efficient LED technology. Eliminates 38,000 Tons of […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 14:00:03 +0000
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Building Technologies Office (BTO) has issued a request for information (RFI) to gather responses from the public that will inform the program development and execution of Section 40511 of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This provision makes $225 million available over the next five years to state agencies and partnerships to help drive the […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Energy Information Administration| Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 18:10:54 +0000
U.S. households are increasingly switching to light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs; 47% report using LEDs for most or all of their indoor lighting in 2020, according to the most recent results from the Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS). In the previous RECS, conducted in 2015, only 4% of households used LEDs for most or all of their indoor lighting. The […]