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What’s timelier than the 2012 London Olympics? Green energy of course! This year, the Organizing Committee and the Olympic Delivery Authority “set out to build new facilities with energy efficient, sustainable, and recyclable designs.” The 500-acre Olympic Park is home to nine new sports facilities that will keep tens of thousands of spectators cool, and […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Energy Star program launched its annual National Building Competition: the Battle of the Buildings. A record 3,200 buildings from around the country go head to head to improve energy efficiency, and found out who can be the biggest energy loser this year. “Commercial buildings in the U.S. are responsible […]

A new study from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) found that increased energy efficiency will contribute to a slowing of the annual growth rate of U.S. energy consumption for the next 20 years (which averages out to about 0.3 percent annually). The report laid out 30 different cases of how U.S. energy consumption will […]

Energy Efficiency Regulations A few days ago, the Department of Energy banned the manufacture and import of T12 lights to the U.S. This was in an effort to encourage consumers and businesses to retrofit their current lighting system into something more efficient, such as the T8 or T5 fluorescent lamps. As great as the benefits […]

According to a new study, the widespread adoption of LED lamps will create a global energy savings worth $100 billion over the next five years. IMS Research found that a rapid uptake of retrofit LED lamps has a huge potential market. On average, lighting accounts for about 19 percent of the world’s current energy usage. […]

While a plunge in the price of natural gas makes it cheaper for utilities to produce electricity, the electricity rates aren’t lowering for customers. Instead, U.S. electricity prices are going up, and expected to rise during this summer. Analysts at the Department of Energy attribute the rising electricity prices to several factors: “In many states, […]

A recent Pike Research report examined the global market landscape for energy efficiency retrofits in commercial and public buildings. It found that the global market will expand from $80.3 billion in 2011 to $151.8 billion by 2020. This makes sense because more and more businesses are looking to cost-effective ways to reduce its operating expenses, […]

Following the Department of Energy report on LED, the Smithsonian is getting in on the action as well. The historic museum recently retrofitted more LED lamps in their gallery, reducing their electricity costs from $2984 to $816 per year. The Smithsonian’s “incandescent lamps could not be replaced one-for-one, but the variety of LED lamps available […]

Salt Lake City recently announced a new loan fund that would provide incentives and rebates to local businesses who upgrade to energy-efficient equipment and building retrofits. The Energy Efficiency Revolving Loan Fund provides business owners with low-interest loans to fund these projects in an attempt to reduce energy usage, and cut down on carbon emissions. […]