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Whisker Labs Receives MIPS Grant to Advance Demand Response

February 23, 2017 by Cheryl Kaften

The Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) Program has awarded a joint grant to Whisker Labs, a division of Earth Networks, to study the potential economic benefit of shifting customers’ electricity loads through the use of its Connected Savings energy management platform, the recipient announced on February 22.

UMD Performing Arts Center Will Achieve 80% Energy Savings with LED Retrofit

August 17, 2015August 2, 2019 by Karen Henry

The University of Maryland (UMD) Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (CSPAC) will achieve an estimated 80 percent energy savings as the result of an LED wall washer retrofit. The project included replacing 87 halogen lamps lining the CSPAC’s atrium with LED modules. The primary goals of the retrofit were to ... Read more »

Shrinking Salamanders Highlight Changing Climate

March 28, 2014March 28, 2014 by Leon Walker

Wild salamanders living in some of North America’s best salamander habitat are getting smaller as their surroundings get warmer and drier, forcing them to burn more energy in a changing climate, according to research published in journal Global Change Biology. Widespread Rapid Reductions in Body Size of Adult Salamanders in Response ... Read more »

PNNL: China Building Codes Could Cut Energy Use by 22%

February 4, 2014October 18, 2022 by Leon Walker

China can build its way to a more energy efficient future — one house, apartment and retail store at a time — by improving the rules regulating these structures, according to a study by the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. PNNL scientists at the Joint Global Change Research ... Read more »

GE, BASF, Others Receive $36M DOE Funding for EV Energy Storage

August 22, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

General Electric and BASF are among the 22 organizations to receive a total of $36 million from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop electric vehicle energy storage systems using innovative chemistries, architectures and designs. The ARPA-E’s program, Robust Affordable Next Generation Energy Storage Systems (RANGE), ... Read more »

GSi, Ecometrica Monitor Global Carbon Changes

May 16, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Environmental accounting software developer Ecometrica has partnered with Global Surface Intelligence to launch GSi’s global forest monitoring service that the companies say will allow investors and supply chain managers to better react to environmental and market developments. Our Ecosystem (OE), Ecometrica’s interactive spatial data distribution system, uses satellite technology to ... Read more »

Google Technology to Help Prevent Deforestation

April 10, 2013April 10, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Google, in partnership with the University of Maryland and the UN Environment Programme, has developed a tool to help prevent deforestation. Global Forest Watch 2.0, which will launch later this year, is an interactive, real-time, forest monitoring system. It uses satellite technology, data sharing and human networks around the world ... Read more »

Industries Make Sustainable Palm Oil Pledge

October 31, 2012October 31, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

The UK government and 14 other industry groups and organizations, including the British Retail Consortium, Food and Drink Federation, and Seed Crushers and Oil Processors Association, have pledged to source 100 percent sustainable palm oil used in everyday food and products by 2015. The pledge coincides with the World Resources ... Read more »

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