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New Energy (France)
Nouvelle Énergie (New Energy) is a French right-wing liberal political party founded in 2021 by David Lisnard, mayor of Cannes and AMF president. It advocates ordo-liberalism, decentralization, and the 'Liberty, Order, Dignity' triptych, and backs his 2027 presidential candidacy after he left Les Républicains.
New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization
The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) is a Japanese national research and development agency, founded in 1980 after the oil crises to fund energy and industrial technology.
New Energy Capital Infrastructure Credit
New Energy Capital Infrastructure Credit refers to private-credit funds managed by New Energy Capital Partners, a Hanover, New Hampshire firm investing in clean energy infrastructure debt and equity.
New energy vehicle
A new energy vehicle (NEV) is a Chinese regulatory category covering battery electric, plug-in hybrid, and fuel cell vehicles, while non-plug-in hybrids are classed as energy-saving vehicles.
New Energy Vehicle Industry Development Plan
The New Energy Vehicle Industry Development Plan (新能源汽车产业发展规划) is a Chinese State Council policy issued in November 2020, setting NEV targets for 2025 and a vision for 2035.
New Engineering Contract
The New Engineering Contract (NEC) is a family of standard-form contracts for works, services, and supply, published by the Institution of Civil Engineers since 1993.
New England
New England: six-state northeastern U.S. region (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont), a Census Bureau division with colonial-era origins, town-based government, and distinct regional identity.
New England Aqua Ventus
New England Aqua Ventus is a floating offshore wind program in the Gulf of Maine, demonstrating the University of Maine's VolturnUS concrete platform with a single turbine off Monhegan Island.
New England Collegiate Conference
New England Collegiate Conference (NECC), NCAA Division III conference in Mansfield, Massachusetts; added esports as its 16th sport in 2020-21, first DIII conference in New England to do so; shares the NECC abbreviation with the separate National Esports Collegiate Conference league.
New England Colonies
New England Colonies: Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire, Puritan-settled English colonies with rocky soil, fishing, shipbuilding, town meetings, mandated public education, and conflicts with Native peoples.
New England Conservatory of Music
New England Conservatory of Music (NEC), founded in Boston in 1867 by Eben Tourjée, is the oldest independent music school in the United States, home to Jordan Hall, with about 750 college students and a 2026 co-equal President/CEO structure.
New England Journal of Medicine
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. Founded in 1812, it describes itself as the oldest continuously published medical periodical.
New England National Park
New England National Park: national park on the Northern Tablelands of NSW, Australia, part of the Gondwana Rainforests World Heritage Area; 51,700 ha dedicated wilderness, Antarctic beech rainforest, Point lookout, 55 threatened species.
New England Patriots
New England Patriots, formerly Boston Patriots (1959-1970), NFL team in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Six Super Bowl wins (XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XLIX, LI, LIII), 12 appearances, Brady-Belichick dynasty, owned by Robert Kraft since 1994.
New England Revolution
New England Revolution, MLS charter club founded 1995 by the Kraft family, play at Gillette Stadium, Foxborough. Five MLS Cup finals without a win; 2021 Supporters' Shield with record 73 points; planned 25,000-seat Everett stadium.
New England school districts
New England school districts are organized around towns and cities rather than counties, taking municipal, regional, and overlay forms such as Vermont's supervisory unions and Maine's school administrative units.
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, commonly New England Telephone, was the Bell System's operating company for Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island from 1883.
New England town meeting
The New England town meeting is a form of direct local democracy, used by 1,290 New England municipalities, in which registered voters debate and decide town business.
New England village sign languages
New England village sign languages were sign languages that arose in hereditarily deaf 19th-century New England communities, principally Henniker Sign Language and Sandy River Valley Sign Language.
New England's Dark Day
New England's Dark Day was an episode of near-total daytime darkness across New England on May 19, 1780, attributed to wildfire smoke combined with fog and cloud cover.
New English Translation
The New English Translation, or NET Bible, is an English Bible translation begun in 1995 by Biblical Studies Press, with over 25 scholars and 60,932 translators' notes, available free online.
New Enlightenment (新启蒙) (China)
New Enlightenment (新启蒙, xinqimeng): 1980s Chinese intellectual movement reviving May Fourth Enlightenment ideals of humanism and individual liberation; Wang Yuanhua edited its 1988 book series; ended after 1989.
New Enterprise Associates
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is an American venture capital firm founded in 1977 by Dick Kramlich, Chuck Newhall, and Frank Bonsal, investing in technology and healthcare from seed stage through IPO.
New Era Sculpture Park
New Era Sculpture Park (牛耳石雕公園, New Era Art Resort & Spa) is a 1987 sculpture park in Puli, Nantou County, Taiwan, founded by Huang Ping-sung for naive artist Lin Yuan, also showing Yuyu Yang and Zhu Ming; now a 6.6-hectare resort.
New Era University
New Era University (NEU) is a private, non-sectarian university in Quezon City, Philippines, founded by the Iglesia Ni Cristo in 1975, with branch campuses in Pampanga, Lipa, General Santos, and Rizal.
New European Driving Cycle
The New European Driving Cycle (NEDC) was the laboratory test used in Europe to measure car emissions and fuel consumption, replaced by the WLTP in 2017.
New Extremity
New Extremity, or New French Extremity, is a late-1990s-to-2000s movement of transgressive French films by Noé, Denis, Dumont, Breillat, and others; the name was coined pejoratively by critic James Quandt in 2004.
New FFM
The New FFM, also called the 06FFM or Upgraded Mogami, is an enhanced Mogami-class frigate built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for Japan, selected by Australia in 2025.
New Fire Ceremony
The New Fire Ceremony (Nahuatl xiuhmolpilli, "the binding of the years") was an Aztec ritual held every 52 years when a new fire was drilled to renew the sun and the world.
New Flemish Alliance
New Flemish Alliance (Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie, N-VA), Flemish nationalist centre-right party founded 13 October 2001 from the Volksunie; Belgium's largest party since 2010; champions confederalism; Bart De Wever became Belgian prime minister in February 2025.