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Intermittent Renewables in the Next-Generation Utility
Advances in digital communications and renewable energy technologies are poised to facilitate a transition to a “next-generation utility” that fully integrates both supply- and demand-side…
Digging Deep: Are CFLs Really Green?
This paper addresses the debate over compact fluorescent lamps and incandescent light bulbs through lifecycle analysis. It compares the environmental impacts of providing a given…
Systems Thinking for Radically Efficient and Profitable Data Centers
This presentation shows how to apply a whole-system approach to the energy use in data centers in order to provide 95–99% energy savings. The authors…
Smart Garage Charrette Preread Core
The Smart Garage Charrette Preread Core gives the most important background on the Smart Garage vision (united vehicles, the grid, and buildings through vehicle electrification),…
Truck Efficiency and GHG Reduction Opportunities in the Canadian Truck Fleet
Fuel-efficiency devices such as retrofittable aerodynamic technologies, fuel-efficient tires, and auxiliary power units can effectively offset engine-efficiency losses resulting from the 2002 and 2007 Environment…
