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World-Class Energy Assessments

Eighty energy experts offer their recommendations for overhauling the approach to conducting energy assessments. Read More

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Who Owns Renewable Energy Certificates: An Exploration of Policy Options and Practice

This April 2006 report provides information and insight to state policy-makers, utility regulators, and others about different approaches to clarifying the ownership of RECs. Read More

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Energy Management and Investor Returns: The Real Estate Sector

Study of energy management in the commercial property sector found that leaders in energy management achieved 34% better stock market and financial performance over the past two years. Read More

European Vintners to Sell Surplus Wine as Biofuel

European vehicles will be running on distilled French and Italian wine again this summer as the upcoming season's surplus production from European vineyards is turned into biofuel. Read More

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Exit Sign Guide

This briefing from the U.S. Department of Energy focuses on an often-overlooked aspect of building efficiency: illuminated exit signs. Read More

Fetzer Vineyards to Host U.S. Wine Industry's Largest Solar Array

Fetzer Vineyards has announced a collaborative effort to develop the largest solar energy vineyard project in the U.S. Read More

London to Cut Emissions with Radically Green Building Regs

London's new developments will have to generate 20% of their own energy from renewables as the capital radically revises its development plan to cut carbon emissions, Mayor Ken Livingstone has announced. Read More

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Ripe for the Picking: Have We Exhausted the Low-Hanging Fruit in the Industrial Sector?

April 2006 study aims to determine whether the abundant, low-cost efficiency opportunities available to industrial facilities in the '70s still exist today. Read More

Harnessing Daylight for Energy Savings

Designing buildings properly and controlling glare and solar heat gain can cut energy bills by more than half. By David Kozlowski Read More

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Clean-Energy Trends 2006

For the first time in modern history, clean-energy technologies are becoming cost-competitive with their "dirtier" counterparts, says this report. Read More