Author(s): Rob Mosher Author(s): Nicole Steele Transportation Reauthorization Approved After months of intense negotiations, on June 29th Congress cleared a bill (H.R. 4348) that will ensure funding for highway and mass transit projects ...
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By Aaron Sutch The White House recently pledged $2 billion for energy efficiency improvements in federal buildings, underscoring efforts already underway to save energy in several government facilities. The government is the largest ...
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Author(s): Allyson Schmutter Author(s): Monique O'Grady Are you still using the inefficient light bulbs Thomas Edison invented over a century ago? A new video series can answer your lighting questions so you don't get left in the dark. ...
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Author(s): Miriam Berg Author(s): Lindsey O'Hern The Alliance’s Washington, D.C., LEED-CI Silver headquarters already is energy-efficient – but it recently became even more so with a new lighting upgrade! The first phase of ...
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Author(s): Miriam Berg In 2011, energy efficiency helped create jobs, cut costs and make the United States more energy independent. Read on for the biggest advances made last year in energy efficiency. Policy Many pieces of bipartisan ...
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With average prices of LED lighting solutions dropping due to lesser manufacturing costs,Philips Electronics India Ltd.is gearing up to meet the incoming demand and expects 50 per cent of the total lighting market to be LED by 2015. ...
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The international conference"Innovation for textile resource efficiency–energy,water&materials"took place on 22 November in Brussels.It brought together experts from industry,the research and technology sector and EU policy makers.The ...
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ABB, a leading power and automation technology group, has opened the first KNX fully certified training facility in Australia, at RMIT University, Melbourne. The new training facility, certified by the International KNX Association in ...
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UK pump company,SPP,celebrates 25 years at Coleford site with royal visit In December 1987,Her Royal Highness,the Princess Royal,opened SPP's manufacturing facility at Coleford,UK.SPP Pumps is a global pump manufacturer and pumping ...
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A council in Northampton has seen a sudden reduction in energy consumption after switching the lights in its St Michael's car park ccccc. The huge drop in consumption flummoxed the council's energy provider so much that they called ...
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LED lighting is going from strength to strength and soon it will render traditional ccc, according to interior experts James and Morris Carey. During the 1990s much was made of the energy efficiency of the compact fluorescent light bulb ...
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Samsung Electronics South Africa has released a new line-up of LED retrofit lamps include a total of 7 products, comprised of various LED light bulbs including L-Tubes GU10, MR16, E27, candle and golf ball types. Further solutions ...
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Hu Nan TV, China's second largest television network, has recently chosen Litepanels LED fixtures for three all-LED studio installations in Chang Sha City, Hu Nan Province. After a thorough search, Hu Nan TV VP and chief engineer Huang ...
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Marks&Spencer(M&S)gives an update on Plan A,its 180 commitment eco and ethical programme that aims to make M&S the world's most sustainable major retailer by 2015. Richard Gillies,Director of Plan A at M&S,says:"We continue to engage our ...
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Energy Focus, Inc. recently has been awarded totally $6.9 million of several additional lighting retrofit contracts. The new contracts include retrofits to upgrade the lighting of an international Fortune 500 company, seven school ...
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