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The Green Button Initiative is expanding to 12 more utilities, and now more than 36 million homes and businesses have access to their electricity usage data in an open and standard format. <a href="http://energy.gov/articles/green-button-energy-data-access-expanding-across-america">Learn if your home is one of them.</a>

The Green Button Initiative is expanding to 12 more utilities, and now more than 36 million homes and businesses have access to their electricity usage data in an open and standard format. Learn if your home is one of them.

Q&A: Plugging In with a Power Lineman

Power lineman are integral in keeping the lights on. Here's a Q&A with a third-generation power lineman.

Winners of Hydrogen Student Design Contest Turn Urban Waste into Energy
The University of Maryland team accepted the award for the best combined heat, hydrogen, and power system design at the World Hydrogen Energy Conference (WHEC) in Toronto. | Photo courtesy of Jennie Moton.

The University of Maryland designs a waste-to-energy system that will help the university reduce energy usage and improve its environmental footprint.

Super Cool Appliance Design Wins Student Competition
The winners of the Max Tech and Beyond competition -- a team of University of Maryland students -- designed and built a prototype for a wall unit air conditioner that showed more than 30 percent energy savings when tested in a lab. | Photo courtesy of Yunho Hwang, University of Maryland.

Energy Department contest challenges university students to design the next generation of energy efficiency appliances.

BPA Turns 75: A Look Back and a Look Ahead

The Columbia River and its hydroelectric dams have been a vital part of the Northwest’s economic engine for 75 years.