MGE UPS (Costa Mesa, CA) announced the formation of its Facility Solutions Alliance (FSA) with industrial leaders in order to support mission-critical networks and facility operations with power, environmental control and monitoring systems. The FSA claims to be the first organization of its kind and represents some of the industry's strongest companies coming together in […]
Zapworld.Com (ZAP, Sebastopol, CA) and solar contractor Sun Pirate have formed a strategic alliance. The two will begin offering pre-packaged solar systems as well as custom consulting for commercial projects. In addition, Zapworld.Com has been offering solar panels for use with its electric vehicles. "With solar, you can ZAP your utility bills forever," commented Roger […]
C&D Technologies Inc. (Bluebell, PA) announced its fiscal 2001 fourth-quarter results, ended January 31, 2001. During this period, net income increased 80 percent to a record $16,706,000, or $0.61 per share, from $9,256,000, or $0.35 per share, in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2000. Sales for the latest quarter increased 24 percent to a record […]
Datel Corp. (Mansfield, MA) has introduced the BWR-5/3.3 Series of dual-output dc/dc converters featuring load polygon circuitry for current sharing. Each output can source any current up to the converter's power output limit of 33W. The 3.3V output can source up to 7A, and the 5V output can source up to 6A. Datel reports that […]
Ansoft Corp. (Pittsburgh, PA) reported record results for its third quarter ended January 31, 2001. Revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2001 totaled $10.8 million, an increase of 28 percent, compared to $8.4 million reported in the previous fiscal year's third quarter. License revenue increased 28 percent to $8.3 million, compared to $6.5 million […]
The March issue of The Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Letter reports that Dubai, an oil-producing member state of the United Arab Emirates, is closely examining the idea of producing hydrogen as an environmentally benign, zero-emission automotive fuel in cooperation with BMW (Germany). Dubai and BMW are supporting a feasibility study at Munich's Technical University that […]
Staco Energy Products Co. (Dayton, OH) introduced the Encore Series of line-interactive UPSs. Staco claims that, in addition to traditional UPS blackout protection, the Encore Series offers power-conditioning features that protect against brownouts, surges, sags, spikes and other power anomalies. The series is fully SNMP capable, and the included power management software allows remote management […]
Unipower Corp. (Coral Springs, FL) recently announced the debut of its new PowerCassette multi-output switching power supply that employs a cellular, rather...
Siemens Solar GmbH (Munich) and Shell Renewables Ltd (UK) announced that they have reached an agreement to form a joint venture of their solar energy businesses. Subject to relevant regulatory approvals and consultations, the joint venture, Siemens and Shell Solar GmbH, will begin operation in April 2001. The agreement follows negotiations that Siemens and Shell […]
Tyco Electronics Corp. (Menlo Park, CA) announced that its Raychem circuit protection division has completed the qualification process for the UL Total Certification Program. Participation in this program will enable the company to accelerate product development cycles and thereby reduce time-to-market for its PolySwitch PPTC resettable fuse product line. "Our investment in the staff resources, […]
Avista Corp. (Spokane, WA) announced that its fuel cell affiliate, Avista Labs, has formed a new company, H2fuel LLC, to develop and commercialize a new technology for manufacturing hydrogen for fuel cells. Avista Labs owns a 70 percent interest in H2fuel, with the remaining interest owned by Unitel Fuels Technologies LLC. Avista Labs reports that […]
Ballard Power Systems (Canada) reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and the year ending December 31, 2000. Revenues increased by 24 percent in 2000, to $41.1 million, from $33.2 million in 1999. Ballard attributes this increase to the rise in automotive orders and higher revenues from 250kW stationary power generators. Ballard's investment income […]
Power-One Inc. recently introduced the new HLS30ZE half-brick dc/dc converter that the company claims provides over 89 percent efficiency and eliminates the...
International Power Sources (IPS, Holliston, MA) released a new line of medium-power ac/dc power supplies, the IFC350 Series. Supplying 350W in an industry-standard U-bracket package, which measures 9.9" x 5.0" x 2.56", the converters have a typical power factor value of 0.98. They come in eighteen models with single-, dual-, triple- or quad-output voltages and […]
Ed Bloom of E. J. Bloom Associates (San Rafael, CA) has published his annual statistical analysis of papers to be presented at the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC, Anaheim, CA) this year. This year, Bloom discovered that 66.4 percent of all the papers being presented are associated with universities, with only 33.5 percent being from […]