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'Smart Grid' Infrastructure Strategy Outlined by Cisco

Cisco today outlined its plan to deliver an end-to-end, highly secure network infrastructure solution that helps utility companies and their customers manage power supplies and energy consumption more efficiently

19 May 2009

Limbach Energy Solutions Expands Into New Markets and Embraces Energy Efficiency

A long-time player in the U.S. building industry is shaking up the energy services market. Limbach Facility Services, one of the United States leading specialty contractors, announced today that it is expanding its en...

19 May 2009

Honeywell Now Helping Organizations Down The Road to Sustainability

Honeywell has introduced a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory service that measures and provides a comprehensive snapshot of an organization's verifiable GHG emissions

19 May 2009

CEMEX Teams Up With World Business Council for Sustainable Development on Energy Efficiency in Buildings

CEMEX in collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and a group of leading companies in the building, equipment, and energy industries- announced the release of "Transforming the Market: Energy Efficiency in Buildings”, a new research report of the Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EEB) project

19 May 2009

Biological Particles Found in High Altitude Ice Clouds

A team of UC San Diego-led atmospheric chemistry researchers moved closer to what is considered the "holy grail" of climate change science when it made the first-ever direct detection of biological particles within ice clouds

18 May 2009

National Restaurant Association Joins Program to Reduce Energy and Water Use in Restaurants

The National Restaurant Association today launched a new campaign - the National Restaurant Association Conserve/EPA ENERGY STAR Challenge - and is encouraging the nation's nearly one million restaurants, their 13 million employees, as well as their suppliers and guests to reduce energy and water use in establishments

18 May 2009

Energy Saving Lamps from OSRAM Lighting Up Germany

With the Powerball HCI family OSRAM provides white light lamps for city lighting in Germany, which have a comparable light yield and therefore energy efficiency as sodium high-pressure lamps with their unbecoming yellow light

14 May 2009

OSRAM Releases Mercury Free Xenarc Headlamps

With the Xenarc D3 and D4 high-pressure gas discharge lamps and matching D3-Xenaelectron control gear OSRAM is the first manufacturer to provide entirely mercury-free HID headlamp systems. As such, the lamps with the Hg free label are every bit as effective as mercury-containing solutions in terms of light output and colour temperature

14 May 2009

Solar Photovoltaic Division, QD Soleil, Launched by Nanostart Holding Nanosys

Nanostart holding Nanosys recently announced the creation of QD Soleil, a wholly owned division focused on the use of its proprietary nanotechnology in solar panel cell designs. Nanotechnology is the next step in the natural evolution of a solar generated grid-ready energy supply

13 May 2009

Japanese Government Misleading Public Over Biased Emissions Figure Cuts

The Japanese government is misleading the public by presenting biased figures on Japan’s 2020 target for emission cuts, WWF said ahead of the country’s last public hearing on the issue

13 May 2009