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Make the Grade -- and Save -- with ENERGY STAR®

Researching electronics for your student? Check out ENERGY STAR for tips and rebates.

Student-Built Appliances Made to Do More with Less

Although today's home appliances are designed to be far more energy efficient than those made in the decades past, there's always room for improvement.

Sinking a Pet's Teeth into Energy Saving

Ernie's musings about pet ownership and its effects on a healthy and energy-efficient lifestyle.

Are You Prepared for a Blackout?

Are you prepared for a blackout? What have you done to prepare?

Updating the Doors and Windows

Instead of purchasing new windows, Stephanie instead opts to perform energy efficiency improvements like sealing her windows - and her home.

How to Prepare Your Home for a Blackout

Having a household disaster plan is important if a natural disaster or blackout strikes your area.

What Motivates You to Save Energy?

What motivates you to save energy?

Go for the Gold and Save Energy at Home

One woman's quest to reduce her energy bill, train into good habits and set goals toward energy savings - and her life.

Stay Active this Summer (and Save Energy, Money, and the Environment too!)

Here are five easy things that you can do this summer that will not only help keep you active, but save money, energy and the environment, too.

Do You Have Windows That Need Replacing?

Do you have windows that need replacing, too? Do you have any plans to replace them with newer, more efficient windows?

A Tale of Three Windows: Part 1

After noticing an property value-reducing crack in their condo window, this energy-conscious writer leads you through the pitfalls and benefits of selecting an energy efficient window.

Saving Energy and Money with Energy Savings Performance Contracts

A compelling insider's perspective at the ways federal agencies are saving money - by saving energy.

Energy Today

Maintaining Your Air Conditioner

Regular maintenance extends the life of your air conditioner and helps it run as efficiently as possible.

19 U.S. Employers Join the Workplace Charging Challenge

Since January, 48 employers have committed to providing electric vehicle charging access -- increasing the convenience of owning an electric vehicle and providing employees with more options for charging their vehicles.

Energy-Efficient Computer Use

Learn how to save energy and money through efficient use of your computers, monitors, and peripherals.

Improving the Way We Harvest & Deliver Biofuels Crops

Sharing the innovative solutions companies are developing to simplify the way we harvest and deliver biofuel crops.

Helping Alaska Native Communities Reduce Their Energy Costs

Learn how the Energy Department is helping Alaska Native communities reduce their dependence on oil by focusing on renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.

Coming Full Circle in Florida: Improving Electric Grid Reliability and Resiliency

Learn how a milestone project in Florida is helping to advance America's smart grid.

New Infographic and Projects to Keep Your Energy Bills Out of Hot Water

New Energy Saver do-it-yourself guides and an infographic will help you save energy and money on water heating costs.

Smoothing Renewable Wind Energy in Texas

A west Texas town recently became home to the largest battery storage on a wind farm, thanks to investments from the Energy Department.

How Particle Physics Improves Your Life

Symmetry magazine explores how particle physics affects our daily lives.

Energy Department Turns Up the Heat and Power on Industrial Energy Efficiency

Learn how combined heat and power could strengthen U.S. manufacturing competitiveness, lower energy consumption and reduce harmful emissions.

National Clean Fleets Partners Get the Best of Both Worlds with Hybrid Vehicles

National Clean Fleets partners are investing in hybrid vehicles to reduce their oil use, vehicle emissions and fuel costs.

Energy Department and USDA Partner to Support Energy Efficiency in Rural Communities

Partnering with USDA, the Energy Department has created the State Energy Extension Partnership to equip America’s farm families and rural small businesses with the efficiency tools, resources and training needed to reduce energy costs.

Energy Tomorrow

From Lab to Market: DOE's America’s Next Top Energy Innovator Program

America’s Next Top Energy Innovator Program is unleashing the National Labs’ unlicensed patents for use by startups -- and helping build businesses and bring energy technologies from the lab to the marketplace.

America's Next Top Innovator: Lab Tech for Startups

Read about America’s Next Top Energy Innovator -- a program making it easier for startups to use inventions and technology developed at DOE labs and facilities.

Wrap Up: 2013 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit

The 2013 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit concluded Wednesday with a final networking session in the Technology Showcase.

ARPA-E Innovators: FORO

Foro Energy, with the help of ARPA-E funding, has accomplished what many though impossible - sending high powered lasers over long distances.

ARPA-E Innovators: CREE

CREE, with the help of ARPA-E funding, has developed a Silicon Carbide (SIC) transistor which can be used to create solid state transformers capable of meeting the unique needs of the emerging smart grid.

Iron-based Material Paves Way for New Superconductors

When chilled to frigid temperatures hundreds of degrees Celsius below zero, these remarkable materials are singularly capable of perfectly conducting electric current.

Zombie Replicants to Outperform the Living

A new, simple technique coats a cell with a silica solution to form a near-perfect replica of its structure, so it can be used by researchers at higher temperatures and pressures.

Fueling the Next Generation of Vehicle Technology

Learn how fuel cell technologies are vital to our nation's future energy and transportation economies.

ARPA-E and the Military Team Up on New Technologies and Summit Partnerships

New technologies could change the way troops stay cool and warm on the battlefield -- and save energy and money for the military along the way.

Increasing Access to Materials Critical to the Clean Energy Economy

The new Critical Materials Hub will help accelerate U.S. leadership in energy innovations by eliminating supply uncertainties for modern and emerging clean energy technologies.

Lights in the Darkness and Hope from the Labs

$A map of intensities merged using the CrystFEL software suite from almost two hundred thousand diffraction patterns obtained from in vivo grown crystals of Trypanosoma brucei cathepsin B. This map is used to synthesize the three-dimensional molecular structure of the enzyme. | Photo courtesy of Karol Nass/CFEL$

SLAC's research may lead to new medications for sleeping sickness caused by a parasite that infects people via tsetse flies, threatens millions across Africa and kills an estimated 30,000 souls every single year.

New Carbon Storage Atlas Shows Hundreds of Years of CO2 Storage Potential

Atlas IV details how and where the CO2 could be stored, as well as some of the most important ways it could be re-used.

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