Senate bill sweetens loans for energy-efficient homes
Under a Senate proposal, a home’s projected energy savings could qualify buyers for larger mortgages and lower interest rates than they might otherwise receive.
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Sunday, June 9th, 2013
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Moniz vows to help advance big efficiency bill, sees ‘real chance’
New Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz vowed Tuesday to help advance a big bipartisan energy efficiency bill that’s moving through Congress and make conservation a major...
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Nest Labs moves further into residential demand response
Nest Labs, the smart thermostat company that makes consumer technology lovers drool, today announced a range of new utility partnerships to expand its product offerings.
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Smart grid company Silver Spring Networks soars in public debut
Investors jumped at the opportunity to invest in "smart" electrical grids, pushing shares of Silver Spring Networks up 29% in the energy-technology...
Lockheed Martin says it has new energy efficient, graphene-filter desalination process
(Reuters) - A defense contractor better known for building jet fighters and lethal missiles says it has found a way to slash the amount of energy needed to remove salt...
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
Mark Warner: Link Keystone pipeline to efficiency boost
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) wants President Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, but hopes the project’s construction can somehow be tethered to more aggressive energy...
Thursday, January 31st, 2013
France to turn off office and shop lights at night
PARIS (Reuters) - French shops and office buildings will have to turn off their lights at night to save energy and reduce light pollution, the French environment ministry...
Nest has raised another $80M, now shipping 40K+ thermostats a month
Learning thermostat maker Nest has closed on $80 million to keep growing, and we've heard it's shipping 40K to 50K thermostats per month.
Saturday, January 26th, 2013
Tendril, Hitachi eye set-top boxes as gateway to home energy management
Tendril announced this week that its firmware will be integrated into Hitachi’s SuperJ Applications Ecosystem, which operates on the OSGi framework, allowing for multiple...
Thursday, December 27th, 2012
Cloud-powered GPS chip slashes smartphone power consumption
A Microsoft Research project offloads data and calculations to save battery life.
Sunday, December 9th, 2012
Leaner, restructured Tendril raises $15M
Tendril, a vanguard startup in the hard-to-crack home energy management market, has completed restructuring and has raised an additional $15 million of growth capital.
Energy efficiency push under way as bipartisan group forms in the House
Reps. Cory Gardner and Peter Welch are angling to make efficiency an area of compromise in a deeply divided Congress that has struggled to produce new energy laws.
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
Efficiency breakthrough promises smartphones that use half the power
A startup says it's cracked a decades-old efficiency problem dogging wireless communications. Powering cellular base stations around the world will cost $36 billion...
Friday, October 12th, 2012
EcoFactor closes $8M for energy data, analytics
EcoFactor, a startup that uses smart algorithms and connected thermostats to reduce customers’ energy consumption, has raised another round of $8 million.
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
Calxeda raises $55M for energy efficiency data centers
Calxeda just a closed a $55 million funding round for its ARM technology to cut data center power. The Austin, TX-based company will not only help the company scale up but...
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
Ikea stores plan to only sell LED lighting by 2016
Two years after it began phasing out incandescent bulbs, Swedish retailer Ikea is taking another step and planning to only sell energy-efficient LED lighting by 2016.
Sunday, September 2nd, 2012
Lights out for incandescent bulbs in the EU
After more than a century lighting up the world, the switch was flicked off across the EU for the final time on incandescent bulbs on Saturday as the phased ban on their...
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
Obama executive order sets new energy efficiency goal for manufacturing facilities
With comprehensive energy efficiency legislation cooling on the congressional backburner, President Obama issued an executive order Thursday to spur energy efficiency...
Sunday, August 12th, 2012
In Japan, energy saving takes its toll
SAPPORO, Japan — In this summer of idled nuclear plants and energy shortages, corporate Japan is operating under duress.
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
U.S. Navy unveils new shore energy policy aimed at cutting base consumption in half
WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy unveiled a major update of its energy policies ashore on Tuesday, callingfor improved efficiency, greater conservation and...
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