
Commonwealth’s Clean Energy Industry Continues to Grow
At a press event held at Fraunhofer CSE’s Building Technology Showcase yesterday, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick formally unveiled the 2013 Clean Energy Industry Report – the latest in a series of annual “report…

New Opportunities, New Connections: The Global Cleantech Meetup Returns
Last year, the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE) joined forces with the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC), the Massachussetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC), and the New England Clean Energy Council (NECEC)…

CSE Test Site Sees New Life as Cafe and Bakery
Field deployments are an essential part of the work we do here at Fraunhofer CSE, allowing our researchers to evaluate innovative client technologies under real-world conditions. The scope of these deployments varies depending…

DOE’s SunShot Incubator Event Showcases Solar Innovation
On Wednesday, June 26th, Fraunhofer CSE partnered with the US Department of Energy to host 20 companies from the DOE’s SunShot Incubator program at our new Building Technology Showcase in the Boston Innovation District. This networking event…

CSE Takes DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge
In January, the US Department of Energy launched the EV Everywhere Workplace Charging Challenge, an initiative that encourages companies across the United States to offer charging opportunities to employees who own an electric vehicle….

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….

Kicking Off “Plug-and-Play” Solar, 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…

Inside the Building Technology Showcase: Elevator
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 Northeast Sustainable…