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Google's Clean Energy Report Reveals Innovations And Policy Could Help Economic Goals
DOE Releases Summary Results from Round 11 of CALiPER Testing
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has completed Round 11 of product testing through the DOE Solid-State Lighting (SSL) CALiPER program.
2010 DOE SSL Market Introduction Workshop Report Posted
The U.S. Department of Energy has published the summary report from the fifth annual DOE Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Market Introduction Workshop, held July 21–22 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Yahoo's New Green Datacenter
The 155,000-square-foot data center, which can accommodate 50,000 servers, is cooled almost 100 percent by outside air (in contrast to the large power-hungry chillers in most data centers), and uses 40 percent less energy than typical data centers. While cooling can use as much as half of the energy consumption of a traditional data center, Yahoo’s Coop design attributes just 1 percent of its annual energy consumption to cooling.
LED Replacements for Incandescent Light Bulbs on the Horizon
New general-purpose LED light designed to replace screw-in incandescent, halogen, or compact fluorescent bulbs
Department of Energy Releases New Estimates of Nation's Wind Energy Potential
The new estimates reflect substantial advances in wind turbine technology that have occurred since DOE's last national wind resource assessments were conducted in 1993
Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010 Passed into Law
The Act provides Federal incentives for homeowners to do Energy Efficiency retrofits
DTE Energy Awarded an $84 million DOE Grant
DTE Energy has been awarded a $84 million DOE grant that will allow the company to move forward with its SmartCurrents program.

