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Carbon Trust Big Business Refit to Help Businesses Slash Energy Costs by Replacing Old Equipment With Energy Efficient Equipment

The Carbon Trust is to help thousands of small and medium sized businesses drive down their costs by as much as £40m through a new programme - The Big Business Refit – set to launch in September this year, it was announced today

26 Aug 2009

Turn Your Computer Gear Off and Save Energy on August 27th

Microsoft joins Citrix, HP and Intel in government and industry efforts to power down computers and peripherals on August 27, 2009

20 Aug 2009

Ford Recharging System For Hybrid Cars Talks to the Power Grid

Ford Motor Company announced today that it has developed an intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that “talks” directly with the nation’s electric grid

19 Aug 2009

Low Power Use a Feature of New Display Technologies

From touch screens, flexible displays, OLED displays, epaper displays to pocket projectors and 3D displays, it's important to explore how new display technologies can bring innovative form factors, attractive visual performance, power savings and potentially drive growth in the near future

3 Aug 2009

Stimulus Funds To Help Modernize the National Power Grid

Electrical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas and the University of South Carolina were informed this week that they will receive federal economic stimulus funds via the National Science Foundation to continue and strengthen their efforts to modernize the national power grid

30 Jul 2009

Battery and Supercapacitor Market for Smart Grids Set to Boom

The market for battery and supercapacitor storage systems for Smart Grid applications will grow from $1.5 billion in 2012 to $8.3 billion in 2016, according to a new report from NanoMarkets

30 Jul 2009

Greenpeace Says Hewlett-Packard Means Hazardous Products

A Greenpeace action in the US today exposed Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) continuing contribution to the toxic electronic waste crisis. The peaceful protest is in response to HP backtracking on its commitments to phase out toxic chemicals from its products by the end of this year

28 Jul 2009

Superconductor Smart Grids Get US Department of Energy Funding

American Superconductor Corporation, a global energy technologies company, today announced that the United States Department of Energy (DOE) has provided more than $12 million in funding to AMSC under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to complete ongoing superconductor smart grid projects

22 Jul 2009

Better Batteries For Electric Cars The Goal Of German Consortium

Development of high-performance batteries is an indispensable prerequisite for the economic efficiency of electric cars. For Germany to reach a top level in international electrochemistry research again, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is now funding a consortium of selected universities and non-university research institutions in southern Germany

21 Jul 2009