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Cool Roof Movement Includes NYC, California, Pittsburgh
Looking to be a little cooler this summer? Buying an electric fan or an air conditioning unit is effective, but that’s hardly the only way to maintain the temperature in the home, at the office or elsewhere.Some methods don’t even require any...
5 Tips to Prepare For a Demand Response Event
The summer is now in full swing! If you live up near our headquarters in Buffalo, NY, it means we finally get to change our snow tires and joyfully send the snow scraper back to the trunk where it belongs. For everybody else, kicking back and...
India Combats Energy Poverty Through Renewable Sources
India’s energy program is extremely interesting, given the sheer size of its electrical grid and the dire necessity to develop additional forms of electric generation. Overall, it is the fourth-largest energy consumer in the world behind the...
EV Initiatives in New York Spur More Sales, High Expectations
From deciding the fate of future electric generation in Western New York, to the US Energy Information Administration announcing New York state has the lowest CO2 emissions per capita in America, to news this week surrounding the...
Smart Energy Campus: Smart Grid Research, Energy Innovation
Announced last week, the GridSTAR Net Zero Energy Demonstration Project (or Smart Energy Campus, as it was renamed) will serve as a “valuable hub for workforce training, building performance testing, energy management research and ‘smart’ microgrid...
Ethanol Biofuels Mandate On Alert
Texas Rep. Pete Olson, along with more than a dozen cosponsors reintroduced legislation this week that would permit natural gas-based ethanol to compete with corn- and switchgrass-based ethanol for a federal biofuel mandate.As of now, the eight-year...
Energy Innovation: Tesla's May Trifecta of EV Triumphs
Electric vehicle (EV) company Tesla is having a really, really solid month so far, and we’re not even half way into it. With the EV industry reeling from grim news regarding Coda’s bankruptcy announcement and Fisker Automotive’s apparent...
Garbage as Energy Commodity? Industry Booms in Europe
Oslo, Norway is known for many different characteristics; being Norway’s government capital, for one, along with being the economic hub for trade and home to over 1.4 million citizens. One thing most people don’t know about Oslo however, is...
MLP Parity Act: Enormous Benefits for Renewable Energy Industry
In what is the second bill introduced recently to reinforce the idea of energy efficiency in the last few weeks, a major financial breakthrough could clear a path towards substantial renewable energy growth in the US.The Master Limited Partnerships...
Industrial Energy Efficiency Gets a Boost with Revamped Shaheen-Portman Bill
Despite all the bickering across party lines on a daily basis on Capitol Hill, and the near-guarantee that Democrats and Republicans will be unable to agree on energy reform anytime soon in Congress, there appears to be at least a flicker of light...
Progress Projected for Renewable Energy, EV Industry
Despite the controversy that surrounds the industry’s long-term effectiveness, the evidence continues to pile up in defense of renewable energies in terms of energy generation and the automotive industry.Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) released...
Clean Energy for NYC? $2.2 Billion Electric Pipeline Gets State Approval
A pipeline connecting Canadian resources to the American shoreline is only a step or two away from fruition, with federal permits and local opposition representing the largest stumbling blocks. Sound familiar?It’s not exactly what you think. ...
