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The Heat Island Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laborartory, in partnership with Graniterock, hosted a free seminar titled "The Benefits of Reflective Pavements" at LBNL on Tuesday June 19, 2012. The event featured presentations by leading experts to explain the benefits of reflective pavements for pedestrian safety, pavement durability, community cooling, and local air quality.Click here for... Read more

Greenwire has published an article describing Department of Energy Secretary Chu's research collaboration with Robert van Buskirk and Colleen Kantner of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division. Their research, which is in press, examines the cost of producing more energy-efficient appliances."For energy efficiency, Chu's Law is on the way."... Read more

The Heat Island Group, in partnership with the Facilities Division, has launched an exhibit of “cool” pavement technologies in the newly-opened Bevatron parking lot, unveiling four solar-reflective coatings donated by Emerald Cities Cool Pavement. This showcase of Berkeley Lab’s cool pavement research is part of a cooperative effort with the State of California to advance the use of cool... Read more

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in partnership with Graniterock, will host a free seminar titled "The Benefits of Reflective Pavements" at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on Tuesday June 19, 2012, from 10 am to 2 pm. The event will feature presentations by leading experts to explain the benefits of reflective pavements for pedestrian safety, pavement durability, community cooling, and... Read more

SAN JOSE and BERKELEY, Calif. – June 12, 2012 – The City of San Jose and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) today announced a partnership to accelerate the advancement of clean energy technologies while also helping San Jose and other cities achieve their environmental sustainability goals. The partnership brings together the extensive capabilities of San Jose’s ProspeCT... Read more

A new report released by the State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network (SEE Action) prepared by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory provides guidance and recommendations on methodologies that can be used for rigorously estimating energy savings from residential behavior-based efficiency programs. The report was designed for regulators, evaluation professionals, program... Read more

Cooking exhaust hoods designed for home kitchens vary widely in their ability to capture and vent away the air pollutants generated by the gas burners on cook stoves, according to a study by two Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists. Of seven representative devices they tested, the capture efficiency varied from less than 15 percent to more than 98 percent.The study, by... Read more

Marc Fischer, a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), presented research results about methane, as part of a panel discussion on short-lived greenhouse pollutants, and climate change at a recent meeting of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) on May 24. He was one of six distinguished scientists who presented there. Their research suggested that focusing on... Read more

CalCEF, which creates innovative financial products for the clean energy economy, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) today announced a partnership to launch CalCharge, a consortium uniting California’s emerging and established battery technology companies with critical academic and government resources. By bringing together the dozens of battery companies and institutions... Read more

Demand response programs to date have largely relied on a labor-intensive approach that has required operators in different customer sites to manually turn off lights, HVAC equipment, and other energy consuming systems to control peak demand and balance loads on the grid.... Read more

A profile of EETD's Emily Fisher appears in the current eNews Update of the Power and Energy Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Fisher conducts research on bulk power transmission systems: planning, policy, modeling, reliability and operations.... Read more

Nine groups of university students will present their prototypes for the next generation of energy-efficient appliances and commercial equipment on May 23 by webinar hosted at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This event is the culmination of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Max Tech and Beyond Competition, which challenged the nation’s universities to submit proposals for advanced... Read more

The Lemelson-MIT Program today announced Dr. Ashok Gadgil as the recipient of the 2012 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation in recognition of his steady pursuit to blend research, invention, and humanitarianism for broad social impact. Gadgil is the Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), and a professor of... Read more

The Darfur Stoves Project has changed its name to Potential Energy. This change reflects the non-profit organization's expansion beyond Darfur and our intention to disseminate technologies in addition to cookstoves.The organization states its mission this way: "Potential Energy’s mission is to adapt and scale technologies that improve lives in developing countries. We believe there is a wealth... Read more

Wednesday, May 30, 2012 8:00 am - 4:00 pmMicrosoft Auditorium, 1288 Pear Ave., Mountain View, CA (map)The Environmental Energy Technologies Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is an event partner with Joint Venture Silicon Valley of the Silicon Valley Energy Storage Symposium.This symposium will bring together key participants—from the public and private sectors and from the... Read more

Dale Sartor, an expert on energy efficiency for data centers in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division, will be a speaker at an event hosted by Sustainable Silicon Valley in Palo Alto. "Data Centers represent a significant opportunity for companies (and all instiitutions) to save energy and costs, while achieving high performance. The life cycle cost of energy for high technology gear is... Read more

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been selected to lead a new joint U.S.-India research center focusing on energy efficiency technologies for buildings. It is one of three consortia that will make up the U.S.-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC). Together, these three groups will receive a total of $5 million this year from the U.S. Department of... Read more

A report released by the California Council for Science and Technology examines pathways for achieving California’s aggressive greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction target of 80% below the 1990 level in 2050 through electricity generation from fossil fuel combustion with CO2 capture and sequestration (“fossil/CCS”), or renewable energy technologies (wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, hydro, etc.).... Read more

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been selected to lead a new joint U.S.-India research center focusing on energy efficiency technologies for buildings. It is one of three consortia that will make up the U.S.-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC).Berkeley Lab’s U.S.-India Joint Center for Building Energy Research and Development (CBERD) will... Read more

An article just published in Issues in Science and Technology, a journal of the National Academy of Sciences, summarizes what California will need to do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent below the 1990 level. Jane Long, co-chair of the California’s Energy Future committee, and Jeff Greenblatt, a scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Energy Technologies Division, discuss the... Read more

June 5 to 7, 2012 at the Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, California. To register for the conference please go to the registration page. Conference registration fee is $430. As an essential part of understanding the contribution that materials science will make to accelerating progress toward scalable electrochemical energy storage systems, conference attendees are encouraged to submit poster abstracts... Read more

In 2011 the City of Boulder, Colorado enacted its “SmartRegs” ordinances that require all single family and multifamily rental properties to meet a minimum energy efficiency standard by January 2019. The SmartRegs initiative is designed to help the city achieve its ambitious carbon emissions reduction goals and to improve the quality, safety, and marketability of Boulder’s rental housing... Read more

A new assessment of wind energy in India by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found that the potential for on-shore wind energy deployment is far higher than the official estimates — about 20 times and up to 30 times greater than the current government estimate of 102 gigawatts. This landmark finding may have significant impact on India’s renewable energy strategy as it attempts to... Read more

When the next “big one” hits Northern California, chances are good that the power will be knocked out across large swaths of the Bay Area. But one place that is likely to stand unaffected is Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California, the third largest jail in the state and fifth largest in the country. If all goes according to plan, this “mega-jail,” housing about 4,000... Read more

Cap and trade programs to reduce emissions do not inherently provide incentives to induce the private sector to develop innovative technologies to address climate change, according to a study just published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.In fact, said author Margaret Taylor, a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) who conducted the study... Read more