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Manufacturers can now independently and accurately certify the energy efficient attributes of their products, thanks to an exciting new program.

Today's lighting technology quickly pays for itself by cutting energy costs up to 70% and can potentially eliminate up to 90% of maintenance costs.

The emergence of SSL technology quickly challenged longstanding performance metrics used for assessing color quality.

DOE has released the results of an exploratory study investigating energy losses in Ethernet cables used between Power over Ethernet (PoE) switches...

The Advanced Energy Design Guide for K-12 School Buildings was recently released to support schools in their zero energy performance goals.

FloorspaceJS is new open-source 2D floor-plan editor. It will initially complement the OpenStudio SketchUp plug-in and eventually replace it.

DOE recognized two Seattle-area Better Buildings Challenge partners, King County and Shari's Café & Pies, for their energy-efficient upgrades.

A nascent area of research is beginning to link high performance with other aspects of a building’s financial performance.

The Energy Department’s Building Technologies Office (BTO) is researching opportunities to make homes safer and more efficient through SBIR.

Commercial buildings consume approximately 20 percent of all energy in the U.S. with tenants occupying 50 percent of commercial building space.