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Electric Appliances as Virtual Power Plants

January 5, 2022 By gmoke

“We’re thinking we can turn water heaters, refrigerators, thermostats, electric vehicles and batteries into virtual power plants [VPPs]” to help balance the grid's increasing clean electricity, Jigar Shah, director of the DOE Loan Programs … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: DER, doe, ecology, electricity, energy, environment, sustainability, VPP

Solar Decathlon Webinars

January 15, 2021 By gmoke

The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is a collegiate competition, comprising 10 contests, that challenges student teams to design and build highly efficient and innovative buildings powered by renewable energy. It’s been going on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: buildings, climate, DIY, doe, ecology, education, energy, environment, renewables, solar, sustainability, technology, webinars

Outsourcing Massachusetts Charter School Teaching jobs…Say it isn’t so!

March 10, 2013 By jshore

It must be Charter School weekend at the Boston Globe! One article that caught my eye was “Top-notch school isn’t marred by loose ties to Turkish cleric.”  Good to know, since Pioneer Charter School of Science might be "marred by the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bese, charter-school, doe, h1b, MassDevelopment, Pioneer Charter School, Rutgers, Slowey/McManus Communications

How to Change US Energy in One Growing Season

May 28, 2010 By gmoke

2.  Continue with weatherization and solar community events.   Cambridge, MA has been doing monthly weatherization barnraisings since the summer of 2008.  Since then, at least 18 other nearby and distant communities have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate-change, doe, ecology, energy, environment, national, renewables, weatherizaton, white-house

Readiness proposals: Good luck with the regionalism thaing

June 27, 2008 By shack

More on the NYC reforms: Klein's management approach has been a bit herky-jerky. While his first years were marked by a tightly controlled, top-down management style, more recently he did an about-face toward decentralization that he … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: doe, ed-reform, education, readiness

A Culture Of Incompetence At The Department Of Energy

March 5, 2007 By rep-ed-markey-d-ma

This careless dilly-dallying has harmed the environment and the drained pockets of Americans for far too long. According to the GAO, if you look at just the top 4 appliances where the greatest energy savings can be achieved through new … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: accountability., appliance, btu, building, code, department, doe, efficiency, energy, gao, government, markey, national, office, standards

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