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Backed with $228 million and with early customers such as Kroger, Mainspring is reengineering the nearly 200-year-old design of the electric generator.
by Adam Aston
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The tension between gas-fired woks’ unique capabilities and their outsize climate footprint is evocative of the wider challenges to decarbonize commercial buildings.
by Adam Aston
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The pandemic has altered work life and the commercial building sector. But companies are still looking for healthy and energy-efficient offices.
by Adam Aston
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Wildfires and other disasters are driving a new emphasis on the value of continuous power, just as falling prices for solar panels and batteries are making combined systems more accessible
by Adam Aston
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Industrial heat is essential to make metals, concrete, plastic, paper, drugs and more. Yet decarbonization options remain immature and expensive. A green credit regime could help.
by Adam Aston
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As a handful of Japanese automakers offer market solutions allowing electric batteries to lend backup power to homes, the future of comprehensive vehicle-to-grid technologies remains years off.
by Adam Aston
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After evaluating 24 million miles of electric-vehicle driving, the EV Project has learned some lessons that could have huge implications for EVs' success. Here's what we know now.
by Adam Aston
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The EPA just set its first rules to regulate pollution from natural-gas fracking. Here's how all the debate and activity is already driving change for energy, manufacturing and transportation companies.
by Adam Aston
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For energy visionary Amory Lovins, the antidote for America's century-long addiction to fossil fuels is convergence on the grandest of scales.
by Adam Aston
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During the kickoff of the VERGE conference, leaders from the public and private sector discussed how cities are the place where otherwise-invisible technologies become visible, with great impacts.
by Adam Aston
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Despite plenty of struggles in 2011, clean energy markets jumped 31 percent last year, according to research group Clean Edge. It expects those markets will keep growing -- albeit more slowly -- in the next decade to reach $385 billion by 2021.
by Adam Aston
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Looking for shelter from a storm? Head to a green building. Greener buildings can be more resilient, according to a new study, which includes tips on how pros can make them even safer.
by Adam Aston
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The latest figures from Ernst & Young show a 4.5 percent dip in investments in clean technologies last year. Given how bad the Year of Solyndra was for all things green, there's reason for optimism.
by Adam Aston
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Global Investment in clean energy topped $260 billion in 2011, marking a new record for growth even as a gathering of high-level investors at the UN this week worried whether the growth can continue.
by Adam Aston
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The pioneer of demand reduction is transforming itself into a one-stop shop for smarter buildings and greener grids.
by Adam Aston
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The company, which is in the midst of an ambitious, utility-scale solar thermal project in Nevada, is walking a thin tightrope as the solar power industry in the US suffers from poor policies and a newly competitive landscape for solar power.
by Adam Aston
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Arun Majumdar, the director of Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, lays out the audacious goals and the tough budgetary realities of the U.S. Department of Energy unit that's best known by its acronym ARPA-E.
by Adam Aston
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu explained in clear and forceful terms how China's leadership in energy technologies keeps growing, and is a second "Sputnik Moment" for the United States.
by Adam Aston
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The go-to tactic for environmental groups trying to stir action on climate change has long been shock and fear. But it turns out that might be the least effective move, and green groups are making a shift in messaging.
by Adam Aston