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Economic ‘GESTOIL’ Technology Helps Save Fuel in Fishing Vessels

The ‘GESTOIL’ system is an economic, easy-to-operate piece of technology, and when actively used it enables significant fuel savings to be made. With this tool the skipper can from the bridge of the vessel see fuel consumption displayed instantly; this puts him in a position to be able to optimize it depending on the sailing conditions at each moment.

30 Apr 2015

Cost of Energy Efficiency Compares Favorably to Cost of New Energy Supply

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have conducted the most comprehensive study yet of the full cost of saving electricity by U.S. utility efficiency programs and now have an answer: 4.6 cents.

29 Apr 2015

ORNL Researchers Create Comprehensive 2014 Hydropower Market Report

For the first time, industry and policymakers have a comprehensive report detailing the U.S. hydropower fleet's 2,198 plants that provide about 7 percent of the nation's electricity.

28 Apr 2015

Berkeley Lab, NTU Singapore to Co-Develop Technological Solutions for Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Development

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will jointly develop technological solutions for energy efficiency and sustainable development in the tropics.

28 Apr 2015

Sharp’s PV Energy Harvester Technology Generates Six Times More Power than Conventional Devices

Sharp’s new PV energy harvesting technology generates six times more power than conventional devices for a given surface area, translating to dramatically higher energy budgets for applications such as building automation, wearable devices, wireless sensors, and low-power displays.

28 Apr 2015

Shunfeng International Clean Energy to Present Advanced Energy Saving Solutions at SNEC PV Power Expo

Shunfeng International Clean Energy (SFCE), along with its subsidiary companies, Shunfeng Photovoltaic (SF-PV), Suntech, Sunways, SAG Solar, Taiwan Carbon Nanotube (TCNT), Powin Energy, and meteocontrol, will be exhibiting at the ninth annual SNEC PV Power Expo in Shanghai this week to meet with existing and potential customers to showcase its expanding portfolio of integrated and optimized solutions including EPC and operations and maintenance services for PV generation projects, as well as low-carbon energy-savings solutions for cities, communities, and commercial facilities.

27 Apr 2015

Trina Solar Sets New World Record for High Efficiency P-Type Multi-Crystalline Silicon PV Modules

Trina Solar Limited ("Trina Solar" or the "Company"), a global leader in photovoltaic (PV) modules, solutions and services, today announced that its State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology of China has set a new world record for high efficiency p-type multi-crystalline silicon PV modules.

27 Apr 2015

Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria Installs First California Tribal Renewable Microgrid System

The Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria is installing the first California Tribal renewable microgrid system this summer in Loleta, California. The Bear River Band’s new energy system is the only system of its kind combining wind energy, solar energy, and advanced energy storage.

27 Apr 2015

Full Absorption Concept Design for Efficient Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting

For our modern, technologically-advanced society, in which technology has become the solution to a myriad of challenges, energy is critical not only for growth but also, more importantly, survival. The sun is an abundant and practically infinite source of energy, so researchers around the world are racing to create novel approaches to "harvest" clean energy from the sun or transfer that energy to other sources.

16 Apr 2015

Air-Conditioning Achieves Maximum Efficiency When in Direct Proximity to Passengers

How can a pleasant vehicle climate be achieved efficiently? Researchers at the Technische Universität München (TUM) pursued this question in the context of the research project Visio.M funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) with a total of 7.1 million euro.

15 Apr 2015