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As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy resources and cut carbon pollution, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Acting Director Walter Cruickshank joined Massachusetts Governor Deval

"Big data" is playing an increasingly big role in the renewable energy industry and the transformation of the nation's electrical grid, and no single entity provides a better tool for such data than the Energy Department's Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) located on the campus

HD Supply Power Solutions, a leading provider of an extensive and dynamic portfolio of products, services and solutions for public power, investor-owned utilities, construction and industrial customers, announced it has opened a new 60,000 square-foot facility located at 4600 Kansas Avenue, Kansa

GreenPeak Technologies, an industry-leading Smart Home low-power radio communication semi-conductor company, has created a white paper that details how Small Data, the tiny bits of information collected from billions of small sentrollers (sensors, controllers and actuators) in homes, offices, factories,

IDTechEx will hold a two-day nine-conference co-located event on the worlds of supercapacitors and graphene in Santa Clara, CA this November 19-20.Supercapacitors use ever more sophisticated forms of carbon with a distribution of pores matched to electrolyte ions but incremental improvement is

Smartenergy Renewables completed the conversion and upgrade of its fully-automated solar panel manufacturing facility in Luckenwalde, near Berlin, Germany. The factory is certified to DIN ISO 9001, 14001, and 50001 standards. The currently manufactured 295W Utility panels are fully IEC certified.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, with help from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), has launched a new website that provides state and local decision makers easy access to a wealth of energy data specific to their location. The resources

Mouser Electronics, a leading engineering resource and global distributor of semiconductors and electronic components, is reminding engineers and students worldwide to hurry and send in their entries for the Create the Future Design Contest. The deadline to enter is July 1. Mouser is a

The U.S. Department of Energy and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) recognized Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) of Virginia and the Rural Electric Convenience Cooperative (RECC) of Illinois as the 2013 Wind Cooperatives of the Year. The awards were presented

American University, George Washington University and GWU Hospital have agreed to purchase more than half of their power from three new solar farms in North Carolina. The Washington, DC-based institutions signed a 20 year power purchase agreement to buy 52 megawatts of solar PV from Duke Energy