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  1. Industry looks to LEDs for homes - EF News

    Also this fall, Osram, Lighting Science and Philips will introduce 25,000-hour LED lamps that look like traditional bulbs but use just 8 watts of electricity to produce the same amount of light as a …

  2. A green future may take green - EF News

    Once maligned as pie-in-the-sky, green energy programs are now embraced by Duke Energy Corp. as money makers. The profit motive inspired CEO Jim Rogers to come up with save-a …

  3. A back-end solution to an energy crisis - EF News

    Later this summer, Ontario electricity consumers will start using power that Mr. Stanton's herd will contribute to the provincial grid. Each of his cows is expected to produce enough manure to …

  4. Project helps energize home - EF News

    Currently, he uses a 500-watt generator and a 200-watt generator, along with four solar panels, a 170-watt panel and three 20-watt panels. He built all of them himself with parts salvaged from …

  5. Is a solar trade war about to flare? - EF News

    The support comes indirectly, through so-called feed-in tariffs. Berlin doesn't pay solar panel makers directly, but forces larger utilities to pay the generators of solar power, including …

  6. Louisiana sold on solar panels - EF News

    Affixed to a section of tin roof, the 1,200-watt system is a smaller version of the one to be installed in the School of Architecture and Design's Beau Soleil Solar Home project starting next month.

  7. Winds too fickle at Boston City Hall - EF News

    City officials were originally imagining a unit on the plaza comparable to the 100,000-watt model operating at the Local 103 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union hall in …

  8. Duke Energy Ohio reaches agreement on security plan

    The agreement also replaces the existing energy efficiency tracker with a new Save-a-Watt model that will compensate Duke Energy based on the success of its energy efficiency programs.

  9. New Jersey to more than double solar generation

    Solar energy currently costs more to produce — between $6 and $8 per watt — than power generated from fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and natural gas, according to Lance Miller, chief …

  10. Hot weather puts strain on hydro system; Power use, lightning …

    LONDON - Today is the fourth the UK has entered with not a watt of electricity generated by coal. It’s the longest such streak since the 1880s and comes only days after the last modern era …