Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on WhiteHouse.gov. Today, the White House, the Energy Department and the General Services Administration are teaming up to host an Energy Datapalooza, highlighting important new steps in the public and private sectors to leverage data and innovation in ways that promote a clean energy economy in America. Advances in technology… Keep reading →
Yesterday, an almond grove in California’s Central Valley hosted the opening of the world’s largest iron-chromium redox flow battery. Originally pioneered by NASA, these flow batteries are emerging as a promising way to store many hours of energy that can be discharged into the power grid when needed. Traditionally, electric generation follows the demands of the daily load cycle. But as more sources of renewable… Keep reading →
DOE’s Better Buildings Challenge has added new partners and financial allies, expanding its energy efficiency efforts to more than one billion square feet of building space. On May 9, 2014, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced that its Better Buildings Challenge partners are on track to meet their energy performance goals, having achieved an annual… Keep reading →
Steel production is an energy intensive-business closely tied to global economic development. Chinese steel production, for example, is often considered and economic bell weather by many industries. Large volumes of coal are commonly used as feedstock to produce steel. Check out this infographic to learn more about steel as a commodity, where its produced, consumed… Keep reading →
Diversity of energy sources and uses guarantees that every year will bring some new, notable developments, and 2013 was no exception. In the US hydraulic fracturing lifted the output of crude oil and natural gas to such an extent that in 2013 the country became, once again, the world’s largest producer of hydrocarbons (the USSR… Keep reading →
In a world where we increasingly consume all kinds of information on various screens and need separate carry-on luggage for all our chargers, this graphic gives you an idea of how much juice each each device consumes. The recent Google acquisition of Nest underscores the growing importance and value consumers assign to energy efficiency. Energy… Keep reading →
The EIA’s latest Short-Term Energy and Winter Fuels Outlook finds US households heated with natural gas, propane and electricity face higher heating bills this winter. Projected changes in residential expenditures from last winter are: 13% higher for homes that heat primarily with natural gas 9% higher for propane 2% higher for electricity 2% lower for… Keep reading →
If you’re trying to decide whether to invest in a more energy-efficient appliance or you’d like to determine your electricity loads, you may want to estimate appliance energy consumption. FORMULA FOR ESTIMATING ENERGY CONSUMPTION Use this formula to estimate an appliance’s energy use: (Wattage × Hours Used Per Day) ÷ 1000 = Daily Kilowatt-hour (kWh)… Keep reading →
The data explosion racing around the internet as people do more online banking, shopping and thousands of other things requires energy-hungry data centers to process and store the growing volumes of information. These data centers need lots of electricity to power and cool servers, but IBM researchers have developed technology that can redistribute workloads to… Keep reading →
By: John W. Schoen | CNBC.com Economics Reporter Corporate leaders give themselves a lousy grade on their efforts to develop sustainable supplies of natural resources strained by a growing global population and a rapidly expanding middle class of consumers. With demand for everything from food and water to rare earth minerals expected to continue to… Keep reading →
