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Energy Days-Agreement signing

Energy Days focuses on buildings, energy challenges

6/14/18

The third annual Energy Days took place on May 30 and 31 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center on the University Park campus. A key theme from Energy Days was the built environment.

The leadership of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) came to Penn State to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Penn State President Eric Barron at Energy Days. The MOU formalized an agreement between the University and the United Nations to collaborate on a Global Building Network to be headquartered at Penn State.

Energy Days 2018

Energy Days conference to build partnerships, solve critical energy challenges

5/3/18

The third annual Energy Days conference will be held this year on May 30 and 31 at The Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center. Energy Days was created in an effort to convene the energy expertise of Penn State and develop partnerships to help improve the affordability, sustainability and security of energy in the future. The conference is open to the public and is free for Penn State students, faculty and staff.

Modern office building in the evening

Penn State to lead new Global Building Network

2/16/18

Penn State has been asked by the United Nations to lead a global network to advance building science, construction processes and building management. The network aims to create an international framework that will make buildings more sustainable, more efficient and healthier to live and work in.

panel of experts at Penn State Energy Days

Energy challenges discussed at recent conference

5/30/17

Energy leaders from around the country took part in the second annual Energy Days conference on May 22–23 at The Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center. The group sought to identify and address the energy challenges facing our society.

Dr. Paul Shrivastava

Shrivastava named top sustainability officer, Sustainability Institute director

4/26/17

Paul Shrivastava, recently the executive director of Future Earth, a global environmental change research program, as well as a prominent researcher in the fields of sustainability, risk and crisis management, has been named the university’s chief sustainability officer and director of the Penn State Sustainability Institute.

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Huge challenges in scaling up biofuels infrastructure

8/23/10

Ramping up biofuels production to replace fossil fuels and provide a significant portion of the nation's energy will require nothing short of a transformation of the U.S. agricultural, transportation and energy sectors in the next few decades, according to a bioenergy expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.

Sustainable bioenergy project has global launch

7/7/09

"Global Sustainable Bioenergy: Feasibility and Implementation Paths" is a response to confusion and uncertainty on whether the world should look to bioenergy -- biofuels, heat and electricity -- as a prominent factor in meeting global energy needs. Scientists from around the world are joining forces to seek resolution of issues related to sustainable production of energy from biomass.

Spanier discusses future energy strategies on WPSU-TV/FM

12/15/08

Renewable energy has become a hot topic now that the world's population is increasing and fossil fuels are declining. More now than ever before, we are talking about alternative sources of energy - with wind, solar and hydrogen options available. That's the focus of Penn State President Graham Spanier's upcoming edition of "To The Best Of My Knowledge." The live call-in program airs at 7 p.m. on Tuesday (Dec. 16) on WPSU-TV and WPSU-FM. It also airs on the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN).

Probing Question: Will algae become a fuel source?

10/14/06

As corporations everywhere scramble to embrace environmental causes and "go green," ExxonMobil—the world's second largest publicly traded company—announced in July 2009 a $600 million investment that is, literally, green. The company, whose reputation was tarnished after the massive Exxon Valdez crude oil spill in 1989, will be producing algae-based fuel and hopes to be pumping out commercial amounts in five to ten years.