Researchers from the American Chemical Society (ACS) are reporting what they describe as the first use of a fundamentally new approach in...
PowerSat Corp. announced the filing of U.S. Provisional Patent No. 61/177,565 or "SPACE-BASED POWER SYSTEMS AND METHODS." The patent includes two technologies, BrightStar and Solar Powered Orbital Transfer (SPOT), which enable the reduction of launch and operation costs by roughly $1 billion for a 2,500 megawatt (MW) power station. "This patent filing is a watershed […]
An array of 213 solar panels will soon provide electricity to homes served by Duke Energy’s McAlpine Creek substation in south Charlotte, North Carolina – all part of an effort to implement new smart grid technology. The substation’s new solar panels will provide approximately 50kW of electricity, enough to power five homes when the panels […]
The DC Power Partners of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) were well represented at the...
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) has released SPECweb2009, new software that adds the ability to measure power consumption to the worldwide standard for web server performance evaluation. SPEC members active in developing the benchmark include AMD, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel and Sun Microsystems. SPECweb2009 replaces SPECweb2005, and results are not comparable to its predecessor. […]
British Gas and Romag Holdings Plc, a specialist manufacturer of glass and plastic composites for renewable energy applications, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate in the testing, marketing, distribution and installation of British Gas branded solar power canopies and other related products. Romag’s solar car parking canopy ’PowerPark’ generates electricity for the charging […]
While there were extended discussions about long-term development of completely dc-powered buildings at Darnell’s Green Building Power Forum (GBPF), the recently-formed EMerge...
Valence Technology, Inc., a manufacturer and supplier of lithium iron magnesium phosphate energy storage solutions, and S&C Electric Co., a developer of new products and services for the stationary electric power industry, announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in which the two companies agree to work together to develop and evaluate […]
Several new and emerging technologies were showcased at Darnell’s first-annual Green Building Power Forum (GBPF) this week in Anaheim, California. In addition...
In the just-released Third Edition of "Inverters for Alternative Energy Resources: Economic Factors, Application Drivers, Architecture/Packaging Trends, Technology and Regulatory Developments," Darnell...
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is calling on governments to urgently implement policies to make electronic devices such as televisions, laptops and mobile phones more energy-efficient. Presenting the new IEA publication Gadgets and Gigawatts, IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said "despite anticipated improvements in the efficiency of electronic devices, these savings are likely to be […]
Last week at the Darnell Group’s nanoPower Forum, engineers from Powercast and CAP-XX Ltd. introduced a wireless power module reference design combining Powercast’s RF energy-harvesting technology with a CAP-XX supercapacitor to create a perpetual, battery-free power source for wireless sensors commonly used in environmental monitoring, building automation, industrial controls and other condition-monitoring systems. Low-power energy […]
Pure Energy Visions Corp., a provider of rechargeable battery products, announced that it has entered into exclusive negotiations for a 120-day period...
Two independent efforts are currently underway to develop new standards for dc power systems. The EMerge Alliance is working to develop a...
The ZigBee Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, announced that it is proposing use of the ZigBee Smart Energy public application profile to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as a basis for an IEC standard. The IEC is an international standards organization that […]