It sounds like the job of a superhero. Help save the environment! How? By using the Eco Mode feature on Samsung's over-the-range microwaves. The manufacturer's green claim got the experts at Consumer Reports wondering how much energy Eco ...
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Let's use the occasion of the shortest day of the year to say so long to another energy-wasting incandescent lightbulb. Federal law mandates that 75-watt bulbs can no longer be made in the U.S. or imported as of January 1, although ...
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Ever since it erected its first lamp posts in the late 1890s,with electricity generated from its own municipal power plant a decade later,street lighting in the City of Pasadena,California,has undergone many changes in the ensuing decades ...
Tags: LEDtronic, Pasadena, street lighting, EECBG, U.S.Department of Energy
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe), has started constructing the 139 megawatt Campo Verde Solar Project, located near El Centro in Imperial County, CA, USA. ...
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Spencer Coatings has become the U.K.'s largest independent coatings manufacturer after it acquired Stokes Paints in a deal worth £5million. Employing more than 100 people, the enlarged Spencer Coatings will have a turnover of more ...
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January 10, 2013 - Hydro One says it is the first North American utility to launch an “innovative, online, asset analytics tool”, giving it the ability to make “more effective and prudent investment decisions”. ...
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New figures compiled by Saga has shown that the UK's 12.85 million pensioners spent as much as£17.4 billion on electricity and fuel bills in 2012 alone. The average yearly spend on fuel bills for the over 65s in the past year ...
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APTMA delegation led by Group Leader APTMA Gohar Ejaz and central Chairman APTMA Ahsan Bashir along with central Vice Chairman APTMA Wisal Monnoo and other office bearers including Mahmood Ihsan, Yasin Siddik and Asif Inam called on ...
The latest data published by National Energy Administration shows that by end-2012 China has become the largest energy producing country in the world. China’s power-generation capacity has reached 1,140,000,000 Kilowatt. Among them, ...
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January 10,2013-Ontario's premier,Dalton McGuinty,today announced the Lambton and Nanticoke coal-fired generating plants will stop burning coal by the end of 2013,saying the early closure is a result of"Ontario's strong conservation ...
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In joint research with Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Tokyo-based Solar Frontier - the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules - has ...
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Walmart has selected Honeywell’ s Ex-Or LED lighting technology for the retrofit of an additional 40 stores across China, which is worth approximately $12 million. Honeywell began to participate in the modernization and ...
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The Taiwan-based solar supply chain is likely to enter a period of consolidation. For upstream material providers, consolidation between downstream customers may create pressure on their costs. Digitimes recently sat down with Chi-jen Chen, ...
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TI spokeman Dominic Torres displays a wrist band heart monitor with a blood oxygen-level reader on his fingertip.Image:Lucas Mearian At the Consumer Electronics Show(CES)today Texas Instruments(TI)demonstrated personalized health ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe,AZ,USA,which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic(PV)modules based on cadmium telluride(CdTe),has appointed Tim Rebhorn as senior vice president,Project Development.He reports to First Solar CEO Jim Hughes and will ...