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Thanks to financing from the Pennsylvania Campus Energy Efficiency Fund, Drexel University’s Philadelphia campus is installing new building controls and advanced heating and cooling systems in six buildings, a move that is expected to significantly reduce energy costs.

A haunted library in Alabama gets an energy-efficient makeover -- but the ghosts decided to stick around anyway. Read more about the EECBG recipient and its history here.

Roland Risser breaks down the four offices in the Building Technologies Program.

As one of the windiest states in the country, Kansas is a great place to harness wind and solar power. And through the Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program, the Resourceful Kansas team is teaching the rest of the state about all the technologies that are out there.

Houston-based Texas Medical Center recently celebrated the completion of an energy-efficient, 48 megawatt combined heat and power system. The Medical Center projects that new system, funded in part by a $10 million Recovery Act grant, will help save about $200 million in energy costs over the next 15 years — a big number, even by Texas standards.

Spend a summer interning at the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C., and you’re bound to start quoting Secretary Steven Chu’s well-known mantra to the people back home.

How a new HVAC system is helping the Chester County Historical Society in Pennsylvania save money and preserve history.

GE's appliance and lighting facility in Louisville has been manufacturing appliances for more than 50 years. Like many facilities, it has seen its share of ups-and-downs. Now, after a tough couple of years, the "Appliance Park" facility is making a "manufacturing" comeback -- with the help of the Recovery Act.

It is back to school time for the 513 students at Ring Factory Elementary School in Harford County, Md. And there's something new and cool -- beyond clothes and backpacks -- for these kids. The latest addition is the school's new ENERGY STAR-rated "cool" roof, funded in part through the Recovery Act.

For more than five years, a large grocery store stood abandoned, leaving a disheartening void at one of the busiest intersections in Elkin, N.C. Now it marks the site of the Elkin Center -- a new energy-efficient space that will host trainings for students and business professionals alike.

Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) serves more than 65,000 Iowans on six campuses, making it the largest two-year college in the state of Iowa.

Qhen officials in Michigan’s Shiawassee County were faced with fiscal challenges, they had no choice but to put off recommendations from a 2007 report highlighting energy problems at county government buildings. But after receiving an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) worth $302,000 from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and $900,000 in low-interest bonds with the government, the county is giving the report a second look.