Pacific Gas & Electric will offer customers an option to turn off the radio on its smart meters, an effort to address health concerns about the two-... read more »
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GE's FlexEfficiency 50 Combined Cycle Power Plant (Credit: GE) At a Paris event on Wednesday, GE announced a new gas-fuelled power plant it says... read more »
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The U.S. wind power industry had its slowest quarter since 2007 in the just-ended third quarter, as investors turned away from the sector after C... read more »
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After being the hot venture capital investment category for the last few years, green tech appears to be cooling off. The National Venture Capital ... read more »
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IBM&'s smartcamp global entrepreneur competition culminated in Dublin today with 9 startups from all around the world competing for the title of the &... read more »
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GM Director of Design Taewon Kim (left) and GM Korea President and CEO Mike Arcamone holding the Best Concept Car award in front of the Mi-ray conc... read more »
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Areva's solar mirrors reflect heat onto boiler pipes above to create steam and power a turbine generator to create electricity. An Australian co... read more »
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What a typical intact fluorescent light ballast made before 1979 looks like, according to the EPA. (Credit: EPA) The Environmental Protection Agen... read more »
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General Motors said today it would hire 1,000 engineers and researchers in Michigan over the next two years to develop more electric cars and hybrid... read more »
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Lithium ion batteries aren't just for your laptop anymore. A group of truck-size battery banks are delivering quick bursts of power to the electrici... read more »
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Electrified versions of conventional gasoline-powered vehicles may look the same, but large engines have been replaced with smaller motors, the bat... read more »
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2011 Chevrolet Volt gets 69 MPGe if you recharge its battery ever 75 miles, according to the EPA&39's new ratings system. (Credit: GM) General Mot... read more »
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A diagram of General Compressions compressed air energy storage system from the ARPA-E Summit earlier this year. (Credit: General Compression) G... read more »
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Nissan Motor has received complaints from owners that its Leaf electric car on occasion fails to start, posing a potential setback for the automaker... read more »
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Artist&39's rendering of the Indian River BioEnergy Center when complete. (Credit: Ineos) Construction began yesterday in Florida on the grounds o... read more »
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Home Depot, which is making an aggressive push into LED lighting, has started selling a Philips LED bulb designed as a replacement for the 60-watt i... read more »
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A topic most people once considered as boring as dirt--rare earth minerals--has fast become a matter of international significance with a direct impa... read more »
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Gazoo Racing fitted the CT 200h with a larger engine. (Credit: Lexus) Hybrids face the stigma of being more about fuel economy than sport, but t... read more »
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J.D. Power and Associates today forecast that 7 percent of new auto sales in 2020 will be hybrids or battery electric vehicles but a "mass migration... read more »
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Primus Power has raised enough money from venture investors to build a commercial-size flow battery to store energy on the power grid, the start-up ... read more »
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