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The Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Impacts of Telecommuting and e-Commerce
Energy Impacts of Telecommuting and E-Commerce For more than a decade, most forms of communication have become increasingly digital. From downloading an e-book to sending an email, this shift has...
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Fraunhofer CSE Center Director Discusses Democratization of Solar Energy at...
Fraunhofer CSE Center Director Dr. Christian Hoepfner was a featured panelist at the German American Conference at Harvard. Fraunhofer CSE’s Center Director, Dr. Christian Hoepfner, joined other...
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Fraunhofer CSE Kicks-Off $10M Clean Energy Technologies Fundraising...
Fraunhofer CSE kicked off its clean energy technologies fundraiser at the Liquid Art House in Boston. Image courtesy of the Liquid Art House Fraunhofer CSE kicked off its 3-year, $10m fundraising...
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Fraunhofer CSE’s Boston Office Receives LEED Gold Certification
Fraunhofer CSE has received LEED Gold certification for its Boston office building – a 100-year-old former warehouse, which was retrofitted by Fraunhofer and its partners from 2010 to 2013. The $27m...
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TechBridge Challenge Seeks Solutions for Advanced Industrial Surfaces
Fraunhofer TechBridge has announced its latest Challenge on novel surface technologies that improve energy efficiency (press release). The TechBridge Challenge is an open platform that seeks emerging...
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Solar Photovoltaics Manufacturers Publish Their Ratings in Fraunhofer’s...
Buyers of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules and solar PV manufacturers alike have a vested interest in the quality and the expected lifetime of a PV module. Rooftop modules will be exposed to a variety...
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Fraunhofer CSE to Lead U.S. Department of Energy’s SHINES Project on Grid...
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected a Fraunhofer CSE-led team to carry out a $3.5M research project to design, develop, and deploy a sustainable and holistic system for grid integration of solar...
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Truly Moving Solar
Roofs of houses are not the only surfaces that can be equipped with solar photovoltaic (PV). Europe’s largest solar research institute, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in...
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MassCEC Hosts 5th Annual Boston Cleanweb Hackathon
Fraunhofer CSE partner Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) organizes and hosts the 5thAnnual Boston Cleanweb Hackathon at LogMeIn in Boston’s Seaport District from April 1 to April 3. The...
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The Human Aspect of Electric Grid Operation
Control room of grid operator ISO New England, Holyoke, MassachusettsPhoto: © ISO New England Extreme weather events, technical and human failure, or sabotage (e.g., with weapons of mass destruction),...
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Veteran Solar Panels Give Rare Insight into Durability
Professor Tonio Buonassisi and his team at the MIT Photovoltaics Research Laboratory are testing two veteran solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, which give the researchers a rare insight into the...
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Fraunhofer USA Exhibits at Hannover Messe in Germany
Fraunhofer USA exhibits at the world’s largest industrial technology fair, Hannover Messe, Germany, from April 25 to April 29, 2016. Fraunhofer CSE’s Executive Director, Christian Hoepfner, presented...
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MassCEC Announces Winners of Boston 2016 Clean Web Haccelerator
This article is provided by Katie Dobbins from Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC). MassCEC is one of Fraunhofer CSE’s founding partners. MassCEC announced CivicArena as the grand prize winner...
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Fraunhofer CSE Presents Live Demo of Plug and Play PV to Advance Residential...
Fraunhofer CSE demonstrated commercial-ready Plug and Play PV systems in Charlestown, MA, on June 16, 2016. The Fraunhofer USA Center for Sustainable Energy Systems CSE successfully demonstrated two...
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Digitizing Electricity
VoltServer and Fraunhofer CSE are piloting Digital Electricity (DE)-integrated LEDs, which can bring the price of LED down by 30%. Photo courtesy of Quonset State Airport, Rhode Island. LED lighting...
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Registration Open for Thermal Mass Workshop V, Clearwater Beach, FL
Fraunhofer CSE’s Building Enclosures expert Dr. Jan Kosny is hosting Thermal Mass Workshop V on current research and new applications in the areas of thermal storage and thermal stability of buildings...
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State Representative Tom Golden Visits Fraunhofer CSE
MA State Representative Tom Golden took a tour of Fraunhofer CSE’s labs with Executive Director Dr. Christian Hoepfner on November 15, 2016. Massachusetts State Representative Tom Golden, Chairman of...
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Leaders in Energy Innovation Meet at TechBridge Innovation Showcase
Laila Partridge, CEO, WegoWise spoke about her experiences with the TechBridge program at Fraunhofer CSE’s Innovation Showcase on December 6, 2016. Representatives from industry, state, and non-profit...
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The Most Energy-Efficient Utilities Are in Massachusetts
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) has published its first energy efficiency scorecard for utilities and has found “striking regional differences” across the U.S. Eversource...
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BEST5 Conference Building Enclosure Science & Technology
The National Institute of Building Sciences Building Enclosure Technology and Environment Council (BETEC) is holding the BEST5 Conference on Building Enclosure Science and Technology from April...
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