Whereas typical school designs today use 3 watts / sq. ft., FRHS uses only 1.6 watts / sq. ft. Projected over the life of the building, energy savings from the building's mechanical, plumbing, irrigation and …

A typical office light fixture currently runs on 123 watts of power, but smaller tubes now available can produce the same amount of light at 50 watts, or run half-power on 30 watts, he said.

Last year TVA estimated the value of two of its nuclear plants at well above their insured limit -- Watts Bar at $6 billion and Browns Ferry at $2.8 billion. TVA Director Bill Baxter said the Knoxville-based, …

The microturbine planned for City Hall's roof, donated by Southwest Windpower of Flagstaff, Ariz., will produce only 1,800 watts, less than 2 percent as much as the Local 103 wind turbine.

Knoxville-based TVA — the country's largest public utility, serving 8.7 million consumers in Tennessee and six surrounding states — also expects to decide by late summer if it will complete a second …

Saudi Arabia receives 7,000 watts of sunshine per square meter on an average day of 12 hours. The initiative aims at reducing the cost of desalination to less than 40 U.S. cents per cubic meter as …

The specification now sets maximum levels for power consumption when the computer is on but idle — previously, Energy Star dealt only with the ability to enter "sleep" mode. There won't be many …

CALIFORNIA - Southern California Edison (SCE) today announced completion of the first of its proposed 150 solar photovoltaic installations on Southern California commercial rooftops. The …

TVA's Watts Bar Unit 1 near Spring City, Tenn., was the last nuclear power generator completed by a U.S. utility. It cost nearly $7 billion in 1996. TVA's two other plants, the twin-reactor Sequoyah station …

A new reactor hasnt opened since Watts Bar 1 went online in Tennessee in 1996. During the 2008 campaign, President Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle he wanted to put in place policies that …