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Many appliances and building technologies, such as air conditioning and solid-state lighting, continue to become more and more energy efficient.
A new Ruby gem, openstudio-standards, delivers two significant and closely related capabilities.
Some metals do a remarkable thing when they’re placed within a magnetic field: They heat up. Remove the magnetic field, and they grow cold.
John Cymbalsky, program manager of Appliance and Equipment Standards within DOE’s Building Technologies Office (BTO), was recently recognized as a “Champion of Energy Efficiency” by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE).
At the Energy Exchange 2016 earlier this month, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) and Building Technologi...
DOE has selected 43 small businesses to work directly with DOE national labs to accelerate the transformation toward a clean energy economy.
Driving the reduction of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through efficiency projects in the retail sector can be difficult, particularly when many energy managers lack awareness of financing mechanisms available to them to fund th...
A team of scientists from ORNL and the University of Florida has developed a novel method that could yield lower-cost, higher-efficiency systems.
University campuses are a treasure trove of energy efficiency opportunities, as their facilities teams will tell you. The challenge is not in ident...
Sam Rashkin, the Building Technologies Office’s (BTO’s) chief architect, spoke at the 19th Annual Congressional Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency EXPO and Policy Forum on July 12, 2016.