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BOSTON, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Greentech Media releases a special report today, "Intelligent Efficiency: Innovations Reshaping the Energy Efficiency Market," that identifies how energy efficiency is evolving into "intelligent efficiency," highlighting value for customers, energy providers, building managers, and others. The report's author, Stephen Lacey, previously of Climate Progress and Renewable Energy World, has joined Greentech Media's editorial staff as our Senior Editor covering energy effic...... continue reading
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(City of Commerce, CA: April 23, 2013) – Newly-elected Mayor Joe Aguilar and the Commerce City Council are providing businesses and property owners with an effective new tool to slash energy costs, improve property values, reap rich tax incentives and put local contractors back to work using no public monies. They’re the first in Los Angeles County to introduce the market-proven financing model of FIGTREE PACE to the region. PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) is a municipal economic development ...... continue reading
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As the trade association representing nearly every shareholder-owned electric utility in the United States, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for its bipartisan passage today of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) by a vote of 288-127. While CISPA is not designed to address every issue in the cybersecurity debate, it is an essential step in protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure. EEI’s member companies are committed to protecting...... continue reading
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(Washington, D.C. – April 18, 2013) Today, Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) introduced the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2013. The measure is an energy efficiency bill designed to help America cut energy use and related energy costs, while also creating jobs and reducing greenhouse gas pollution. “Energy efficiency is a common sense idea that benefits both the economy and the environment. It represents an enormous opportunity to cut energy costs and greenhouse ...... continue reading
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ALBANY, N.Y. – The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), a nonprofit research group based in Washington, D.C., has recognized The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s (NYSERDA) On-Bill Recovery Financing, New Construction and Existing Facilities programs as “exemplary programs.” These national awards honor America’s leading energy efficiency programs. NYSERDA’s accomplishments were recognized at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. last week. Programs selected ...... continue reading
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WASHINGTON—The global clean energy sector is undergoing geographic and technological shifts as new markets emerge and renewable capacity grows, according to research released by The Pew Charitable Trusts. The sector demonstrated resilience in 2012, registering a record 88 gigawatts, or GW, of additional generating capacity, even though investment levels declined 11 percent, to $269 billion, from 2011. Among the Group of 20 nations, China reclaimed the top spot from the United States, attracting $65.1 bil...... continue reading
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(Washington, D.C)-The Council on Competitiveness and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced today the American Energy and Manufacturing Competitiveness Partnership (AEMC), a three-year effort to bring together national leaders to address a rapidly shifting national and global energy landscape – and to uncover actions that can be taken now to enable America to build on this distinctive time in its energy history over the next five to ten years and t...... continue reading
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Washington, D.C. — March 18, 2013: The Center for Environmental Innovation in Roofing (Center) has released its new RoofPoint™ Energy and Carbon Calculator. The Center’s VP of Research Dr. Jim Hoff previewed the new tool on March 16, 2013, at the 28th RCI International Convention and Trade Show in Orlando, Florida. The calculator is designed to assist roofing professionals in measuring the energy and environmental benefits of modern roof system technologies. During his presentation, Dr. Hoff explained ho...... continue reading
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Washington, DC – March 4, 2013 – Today, on behalf of business interests ranging in size from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, three separate business organizations individually welcomed McCarthy as EPA Administrator. These organizations include the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), Ceres, and Small Business Majority. According to their statements, the nomination of Gina McCarthy to lead the EPA is good news for U.S. businesses. According to a statement by the American Sustainable Bu...... continue reading
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HOUSTON – (March 4, 2013) – President Barack Obama nominated MIT professor Ernest Moniz as the new energy secretary today. Two fellows at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy commented on Obama's selection: Neal Lane, senior fellow in science and technology policy at Rice, former assistant to President Bill Clinton for science and technology, former director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and former director of the National Science Foundation: “I had the pleasur...... continue reading
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