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WiLight is a new wireless lighting control system that dims or switches overhead lighting according to the occupants' preferences, or in response to building-wide demand. Developed by two EETD researchers, Francis Rubinstein and Dennis DiBartolomeo, WiLight was designed to be low cost, to encourage building owners to retrofit facilities for energy efficiency.... Read more

To help EC windows realize their potential to save energy in California and throughout the U.S., DOE and the California Energy Commission funded Berkeley Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division to conduct a three-year field test of EC windows in a realistic office-building setting. This test, along with other tests and computer simulations, was intended to allow the Berkeley Lab... Read more

A recently launched Global Giving web page describes a plan to reduce hardship in the Sudan. EETD Researchers developed, in cooperation with local inhabitants and aid organizations, the Berkeley-Darfur Stove, a low-cost technology that will help minimize violence against women, increase disposable incomes, and reduce environmental degradation (https://cookstoves.lbl.gov/). The stoves require 75%... Read more

Alex Lekov of LBNL's EES Group (together with Bill Golove) was a recipient of the 2006 Presidential Award for Leadership in Federal Energy Management as part of a larger team representing the U.S. Postal Service Pacific Area Energy Program Committee. The USPS received this award for completing over $100 million of clean energy retrofits in their facilities during FY 2004 and 2005. Berkeley Lab... Read more

Christina Galitsky, a researcher in the Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division, has been named one of 35 top innovators in science and technology under the age of 35 by MIT's Technology Review magazine. She was also honored as Humanitarian of the Year.... Read more

Scientists at EETD and Bar-Ilan University have discovered unusually high concentrations of silver in samples of many different types of pottery from excavations in Jerusalem of the late Second Temple period, the first century BCE (Before the Common Era) through 70 CE (Common Era). This is the first study ever conducted on silver in archaeological ceramics.... Read more

One of four of R&D Magazine's prestigious R&D 100 Awards given to Berkeley Lab for 2006, the editors' choices for the 100 most significant proven technological advances of the year, has gone to researchers at Berkeley Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division. The Laser Ultrasonic Sensor, developed by members of EETD and colleagues at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology at... Read more

Summer Lecture Series Berkeley, California July 10, 2006 California Energy Commissioner and Professor Emeritus Art Rosenfeld discusses the contributions of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to improving America's energy efficiency.... Read more

Researchers at EETD have teamed with Silicon Valley giants including Sun Microsystems, Intel, Cisco, and others to demonstrate technologies that could save billions of dollars a year in the energy costs of operating data centers, as well as improve reliability and lengthen equipment life.... Read more

Arthur Rosenfeld, 79, acclaimed high-energy physicist turned energy-conservation savant, veteran researcher/educator for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley, and two-time appointee to the California Energy Commission, has won the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious awards for scientific achievement.... Read more

Ashok Gadgil and Christina Galitsky were among a team of researchers from the Environmental Energy Technologies Division who recently went to Darfur to test simple cookstoves made of sheet metal or cast iron, designed to use less wood or alternative fuels such as animal dung. A critical lack of fuel for cooking drives women to leave the safety of the camps, where they are exposed to potential... Read more

Engineers have developed a method for "precooling" small office buildings and reducing energy consumption during times of peak demand, promising not only to save money but also to help prevent power failures during hot summer days.... Read more

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Engineers have developed a method for "precooling" small office buildings and reducing energy consumption during times of peak demand, promising not only to save money but also to help prevent power failures during hot summer days.... Read more

EETD researchers are developing an automated lighting control technology that takes advantage of daylighting to give the electric lights a rest.... Read more

How much energy does the California economy use, how is the energy supplied, and what is it used for? For reasons related to the economy, the environment, and energy security, a lot of people are interested in these questions. The California Energy Commission recently funded scientists in Berkeley Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division to help find some answers. They did so by developing... Read more

A report developed by a joint team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories is being distributed to airport executives and emergency planners and will help security managers of airports and other transportation facilities reduce the risk of chemical and biological attacks.... Read more

Berkeley, Calif.—Using two different kinds of communication technology to test automated demand response during the summer of 2004, researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found up to four MW of savings at 18 sites consisting of 36 buildings, according to a new report.... Read more

EETD's China Energy Group has produced a report, Evaluation of China's Energy Strategy Options, which lays out paths to accomplishing that country's energy growth goals with the help of strong incentives to increase energy efficiency, as well as steps to strengthen the energy supply side, including renewable energy sources.... Read more

The insured share of the world's total economic losses from weather-related catastrophes is rising, increasing from a negligible fraction in the 1950s to 25 percent in the last decade, says an EETD scientist.... Read more

Berkeley Lab scientists help African nation pursue alternative energy sources.... Read more

The United Nations' World Environment Day 2005 took place in San Francisco June 1 to 5. Berkeley Lab and its Environmental Energy Technologies Division participated in two of these events.... Read more

California utilities are once again offering 20 percent rebate programs to residential and small commercial customers. If you save 20 percent of your energy bill during the three summer months, compared to last year's use, they will rebate 20 percent of your bill. If you live in California, EETD's 20% Solution website, developed in 2001 to help the state weather electricity shortages, can help you... Read more

Despite support at the federal level, incorporation of demand response into utilities' resource procurement and tariffs has had very limited uptake. Any change depends upon a new way of thinking within the states, utilities and independent system operators, officials said at a Washington meeting Tuesday.... Read more

The use of highly-efficient, cost-effective white light-emitting diodes as a replacement for inefficient, polluting kerosene lamps common in the developing world, could potentially save tens of billions of dollars per year worldwide, according to Evan Mills of EETD.... Read more

The paper industry is one step closer to saving millions of dollars each year. An innovative laser ultrasonic sensor designed and built by scientists from EETD was recently successfully tested at a paper mill in Jackson, Alabama. The sensor measures a paper's bending stiffness and shear strength—two hallmarks of paper quality—as it speeds through a production web.... Read more