Archives
Welcome to the Energy Efficiency Center's News Archives
Below are some of the many articles and announcements about the EEC or affilate centers since its inception in 2006. For current events and news, please click here.
2009
Susan Kinne: Meeting the Challenges of Sustainability in Rural Nicaragua (posted 10-27-09)
UC Davis Big Bang! Business Plan Competition marks 10th year anniversary (posted 10-21-09)
Announcing the EEC's Emerging Venture Analysts of 2009-10 (posted 10-02-09)
Energy Efficiency is "Getting Done" - Daily Finance article quoting EEC Exec Dir, Ben Finkelor, and Assoc Dir, Alan Meier (posted 09-29-09)
Drivers make alternative plans and find different routes when roads close, according to ITS-Davis' Pat Mokhtarian and Michael Zhang (posted 09-08-09)
EEC releases Flexible Carpool Exploratory Study (posted 8-31-09)
Incoming UC Davis Graduate School of Management Dean, Steven Currall, on his "California Dream;" it's clean tech and innovative (posted 08-27-09)
EEC's, Dan Sperling, study shows batteries to add costs to plug-in and electric vehicles (posted 08-26-09)
Prof. Andy Frank, often described as the "father of the plug-in hybrid" speaks out on the new Chevy Volt (posted 8-22-09)
Coolerado Corp. AC unit is announced as first winner of Western Cooling Challenge (posted 8-13-09)
Construction begins on UC Davis West Village, a zero net energy community (posted 8-10-09)
All 6 installments of the EEC's The Roots of Energy Efficiency lecture series now available on UCTV (posted 7-27-09)
Cree's "LED University" initiative with CLTC smart lighting on ABC tv (posted 6-17-09)
CLTC startup to cut lighting costs - Mercury News (posted 6-16-09)
EEC's Acting Director, Daniel Sperling, interview "Ethanol as Fuel/Breadline USA" on Insight (posted 6-17-09)
Forbes interview with EEC Founding Director, Andrew Hargadon (posted 6-15-09)
EEC Congressional Briefing in Washington, DC (slide presentation) (posted 5-19-09)
CLTC Student LED Design Press Release (posted 5-05-09)
CLTC announces the 2009 Annual LED Luminaire Design Competition Winners (posted 4-22-09)
CLTC announces Don Aumann Memorial Lecture (posted 4-20-09)
CalCEF releases white paper -- "New Business Models for Energy Efficiency" (posted 4-20-09)
Energy Efficient IT Solutions on the UCD Campus (posted 4-6-09)
Student Designs to be on Display in New York (posted 4-1-09)
Chevron Energy Efficiency Chair (posted 3-31-09)
EEC's Professor Andrew Hargadon Wins the Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award (posted 3-23-09)
Opportunities and Challenges in Renewable Energy in Nicaragua (posted 3-11-09)
Students Present Initial Sustainable Designs for Student Farm Kitchen (posted 3-10-08)
EEC Acting Director Dan Sperling Featured in Sacramento Bee (posted 3-08-09)
The Global-Local Challenges in Sustainability in Monteverde, Costa Rica (posted 3-05-09)
Watts Up? UC Davis Students Evaluate IT Office Equipment Electricity Use (posted 2-20-09)
EEC Acting Director Dan Sperling Interviewed by John Stewart on The Daily Show 2-11-09
EEC Associate Director, Andrew Hargadon blog on Energy Efficiency (posted 2-08-09)
EEC's Director, Ben Finkelor - interview on KQED-FM California Report "Energy Economy & California" (posted 1-16-09)
CLTC's Michael Siminovitch - interview NYT "Why Efficient Light Bulbs Fail" (posted 1-27-09)
CLTC's smart daylighting technologies- Greentechmedia Blog (posted 1-20-08)
Energy Efficiency Unplugged - panel at Commonwealth Club (San Francisco) (posted 1-13-09)
UC Davis LED smart parking garage lighting installed in south entry parking structure (posted 1-13-09)
UC Davis joins LED University program with Cree, Inc. (posted 1-13-09)
LED Magazine article on UC Davis Smart Lighting Initiative (posted 1-13-09)
LED Parking Garage Lights installed - view video (posted 1-13-09)
2008
EEC convenes second Energy Efficiency Technology Impact Summit (posted 12-2-08)
Sempra Energy endowment to EEC announced (posted 12-2-08)
Energy Efficiency in Practice: Career and Internship Insights from the Field (posted 11-21-08)
Speaker Series: The Roots of Energy Efficiency: How California Changed the Way the World Uses Energy" - video available online (posted 11-14-08)
Why You Can't Buy an Energy Star Car and Other War Stories from Washington (posted 10-18-08)
The Roots of Energy Efficiency: How California Changed the Way the World Uses Energy (posted 10-14-08)
EEC Emerging Venture Analyst invents pedal-powered desk - YouTube video - )[posted July, 2008)
UC Davis launches "utilities consumption dashboard" - (posted June, 2008)
Western Cooling Challenge heats up (posted 6-05-08)
Center students compete and win business plan competition (posted June, 2008)
UC Davis MBA team wins BofA Low-Income Housing Challenge (posted May, 2008)
Singapore Ministry representatives visit UC Davis (posted May, 2008)
UC Davis licenses energy-efficient lighting technology (posted April, 2008)
Center students visit PG&E and Southern California Edision (posted April, 2008 and May, 2008)
Dr. Meier advises Juneau on energy savings potential (posted April, 2008)
EEC Affiliate Centers' Research Highlighted in CleanTech.com (posted April, 2008)
UC Davis Smart Garage Lighting initiative announced 3-18-08
ECOS donates power meters (Davis High School and UC Davis students put them to good use) (posted March, 2008)
Photos from First Annual Energy Efficiency Technology Impact Summit and second Energy Efficiency Board of Advisers meeting, held February 13, 2008 (posted 2-15-08)
Center convenes experts in first Energy Efficiency Technology Summit (posted 2-15-08)
Wal-Mart Pledges $500K to UC Davis Energy Center (posted 2-15-08)
EEC Receives $1.1M (posted 2-14-08)
Acting Energy Efficiency Director, Dan Sperling, discusses carbon budgets and energy efficiency opportunities at Energy Symposium (posted 2-10-08)
2007
2007 Board of Directors - Photos
Edison International Pledges $500,000 to Fund Energy-Efficiency Research (posted 6-5-07)
EEC Featured on The Osgood File (posted 2-16-07)
Schwarzenegger taps UC Davis to draft new fuel policy (posted 1-17-07)
UC Experts Will Draft Calif.'s New Auto Emissions Policy Announced Today by Gov. Schwarzenegger (posted 1-07-09)
2006
Stern Review Final Report on the Economics of Climate Change (posted 11-02-06)
New Technology Turns Food Leftovers Into Electricity, Vehicle Fuels (posted 10-24-06)
KVIE "New Valley" Clean Energy Episode
Center Will Shine New Light on Energy Efficiency Efforts, Entrepreneurship (posted 6-15-06)
Western Governors Adopt Policies on Clean, Diversified Energy, Global Climate Change and Transportation Fuels (posted 6-11-06)
Photos and Video from the Energy Efficiency Center Launch (posted 4-12-06)
Governor Attends Launch of Energy Efficiency Center (posted 4-12-06)