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“Plug-and-Play” Solar Kickoff: CSE Hosts First SunShot Project Meeting
Yesterday marked the official kickoff of our five-year, $11.7M research effort into “plug-and-play” solar systems for the US residential market. Funded by the Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative, this project will explore technologies…
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Joseph Kennedy Tours the Building Technology Showcase
Last week we had the pleasure of hosting former Massachusetts Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy, II at our new headquarters in Boston. As the son of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph Kennedy belongs to…
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Inside the Building Technology Showcase: Elevator System
Fraunhofer CSE’s Building Technology Showcase is a far-reaching, energy-efficient retrofit of a 100-year-old historic structure in Boston’s Innovation District. In this new series, we look ‘under the hood’ to explore some of the…
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BE13 Attendees Tour the Building Technology Showcase
On Wednesday, March 5th, BuildingEnergy 2013 attendees were given the opportunity to tour our Building Technology Showcase construction site in the Boston Innovation District. BuildingEnergy, an annual conference and trade organised by the…
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Will Your Next Tablet Have Infinite Battery Life?
If you didn’t have an opportunity to visit us at the ARPA-E showcase this week, you’ve still got another chance to see something very special in action. At tonight’s MIT Energy Showcase, TechBridge…
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Inside the Building Technology Showcase: Heating
Fraunhofer CSE’s Building Technology Showcase is a far-reaching, energy-efficient retrofit of a 100-year-old historic structure in Boston’s Innovation District. In this new series, we look ‘under the hood’ to explore some of the…
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Fraunhofer’s Photovoltaic Durability Initiative: Reducing Investment Risks
Financing photovoltaic power plants can be an uphill battle. As with any power plant, the payback time to recover the upfront building costs is a crucial factor in securing project funding. With a…
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$30M and Counting: Building Up Early-Stage Cleantech with Fraunhofer TechBridge
As an initiative designed to assist early-stage energy start-ups in finding the resources needed to bring their promising concepts to market, the success of Fraunhofer TechBridge is all in the numbers: to date,…
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CSE’s Scientific Director Joins Intersolar North America Advisory Board
We’re pleased to announce that Dr. Christian Hoepfner, Fraunhofer CSE’s Scientific Director, will be joining the International Advisory Board supporting this year’s Intersolar North America conference. Intersolar North America is America’s leading solar…
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Fraunhofer’s Building Innovation Alliance at BAU 2013
On January 14th, architects, building components, systems, and materials manufacturers descended on Munich for BAU, the world’s leading trade fair for architecture, building materials and systems. First held in 1964, this biennial show has since…
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Fraunhofer CSE Evaluates Radiator Labs’ Radiator Retrofit Technology
If you’ve ever lived in a building heated by steam radiators, you may be familiar with their shortcomings. Traditional steam radiators – found in buildings throughout the Northeast – can be a major…
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NESEA Tours the Building Technology Showcase
On Tuesday afternoon, members of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) toured Fraunhofer CSE’s Building Technology Showcase construction site in the Boston Innovation District to learn more about this innovative retrofit project and…
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Saving Energy, Preserving History: Fraunhofer’s Building Technology Showcase and the Philosophy of Energy-Efficient Retrofits
The buildings in which we live and work consume 41% of all energy used in the United States, according to studies undertaken by the US Department of Energy (DOE). Beyond the financial costs,…
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Battery Power, Coast to Coast: Geoffrey Kinsey’s Electric Journey
When it came time to make his big move from California to Boston, Geoffrey Kinsey, CSE’s new Director of Photovoltaic Technologies, did what many of us would do: he packed up his car…
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Inside the Building Technology Showcase: Cooling and Ventilation
Fraunhofer CSE’s Building Technology Showcase is a far-reaching, energy-efficient retrofit of a 100-year-old historic structure in Boston’s Innovation District. In this new series, we look ‘under the hood’ to explore some of the…
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Building Technology Showcase Opening Just Months Away
It’s hard to believe that the opening of the Building Technology Showcase is just a few months away! Construction is well underway – the windows and roofing materials have been installed, and the…
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CSE Opens its Doors to Global Cleantech Meet-up Attendees
After two days of intense networking, attendees of last week’s Global Cleantech Meet-Up took a well-deserved break with a whistle-stop tour of the Boston clean energy community. Among the featured attractions: Fraunhofer CSE,…
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Training Tomorrow’s Clean Energy Leaders: Introducing Fraunhofer CSE’s Fellowship Program
Fraunhofer CSE may be best known for its contract research, but professional development and workforce training has been a major part of the Center’s mission from the very beginning. Since 2009, Fraunhofer CSE…
Touring the BTS: One Group At A Time
With the move to our new location in Boston’s Innovation District now over, we’re starting to open our doors to outside groups eager to get a first look at the Building Technology Showcase….
“Plug-and-Play” Solar Kickoff: CSE Hosts First SunShot Project Meeting
Yesterday marked the official kickoff of our five-year, $11.7M research effort into “plug-and-play” solar systems for the US residential market. Funded by the Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative, this project will explore technologies…
Joseph Kennedy Tours the Building Technology Showcase
Last week we had the pleasure of hosting former Massachusetts Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy, II at our new headquarters in Boston. As the son of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph Kennedy belongs to…
Making Oil Heat Count: Finding Thermal Efficiency with YShape’s HeatMeter
There aren’t a lot of times in my life that I have had to pay $1000 for a single bill. Yet that’s how much it cost to fill my heating oil tank in…
Inside the Building Technology Showcase: Elevator System
Fraunhofer CSE’s Building Technology Showcase is a far-reaching, energy-efficient retrofit of a 100-year-old historic structure in Boston’s Innovation District. In this new series, we look ‘under the hood’ to explore some of the…
BE13 Attendees Tour the Building Technology Showcase
On Wednesday, March 5th, BuildingEnergy 2013 attendees were given the opportunity to tour our Building Technology Showcase construction site in the Boston Innovation District. BuildingEnergy, an annual conference and trade organised by the…
Will Your Next Tablet Have Infinite Battery Life?
If you didn’t have an opportunity to visit us at the ARPA-E showcase this week, you’ve still got another chance to see something very special in action. At tonight’s MIT Energy Showcase, TechBridge…
Inside the Building Technology Showcase: Heating
Fraunhofer CSE’s Building Technology Showcase is a far-reaching, energy-efficient retrofit of a 100-year-old historic structure in Boston’s Innovation District. In this new series, we look ‘under the hood’ to explore some of the…
Fraunhofer’s Photovoltaic Durability Initiative: Reducing Investment Risks
Financing photovoltaic power plants can be an uphill battle. As with any power plant, the payback time to recover the upfront building costs is a crucial factor in securing project funding. With a…
$30M and Counting: Building Up Early-Stage Cleantech with Fraunhofer TechBridge
As an initiative designed to assist early-stage energy start-ups in finding the resources needed to bring their promising concepts to market, the success of Fraunhofer TechBridge is all in the numbers: to date,…
