Industrial giant Siemens is investing in smart-grid start-up Tendril and the two will market Tendril's home energy system to utilities.
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Valuable metals contained in electronics and green-technology products are being recycled at "discouragingly" low rates, raising the prospect of mat...
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Google said today it had invested in a startup called Transphorm, whose power-conversion efficiency technology could some day help create more efficie...
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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.--An "energy resource management" software company co-founded by Tom Siebel called C3 is growing rapidly in a market that's lar...
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It&'s Christmas time for Instapaper fanatics: Developer Marco Arment has finally delivered Instapaper 3.0 for the iPhone and iPad, bringing with it ne...
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Thanet Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Kent, England, is a precursor to the North Sea project.
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Google plans to invest 3.5 million euros, or about $5 million, in a solar photovoltaic power plant in Germany, according to an announcement today....
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There are many research efforts to radically improve energy storage for both vehicles and the grid, but the business models for bringing that techno...
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When it comes to energy, Intel's biggest concern is keeping a lid on the power used at giant data centers. But Intel researchers are seriously looki...
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The latest winner in GE&'s $200 million Ecoimagination smart grid contest is Clarian Power, a startup that makes what&'s essentially a home solar kit ...
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Solar panel maker SoloPower has secured financing to build a manufacturing plant in Oregon, a step toward ramping up production of its thin-film sola...
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When it comes to grading companies on their sustainability, some leading organizations fall short as far as transparency and methodology. That's acco...
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Top financial services company Citi has made its first investment in residential solar power via a $40 million fund to finance residential solar proje...
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The Shepherds Flat wind farm is expected to be fully operational in 2012 and supply 235,000 average U.S. homes.
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Power grid and building equipment supplier Schneider Electric said today has agreed to acquire Telvent in a bid to boost its smart-grid software por...
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The PowerCost Monitor, one of the few energy-tracking gadgets sold directly to consumers, will now be available at Lowe's hardware stores.
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A Solar Junction wafer of high-efficiency solar cells. Each individual chip can produce about 20 watts.
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