ON Semiconductor (Phoenix, AZ) has raised the bar on its power management efforts by launching a series of power supply seminars. Partnering with Dr. Ray Ridley of Ridley Engineering (Roswell, GA), ON Semiconductor is offering two days of application-specific training to engineers designing power supplies and power management systems. ON Semiconductor selected Ridley to collaborate […]
Active Power Inc. (Austin, TX) announced that it has received an order from Liebert Corp. (Columbus, OH) for thirty-six 240kW CleanSource dc flywheel units valued at more than a million dollars. The CleanSource dc is a compact, reliable, non-toxic replacement for lead-acid batteries used with uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems. Accordiing to Active Power, the […]
Power-One Inc. (Camarillo, CA) has added the HPF3E8E8E7YB to its High Power Series. This modular power supply provides 28V at 68A. With...
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) has announced the outline of its new mid-term business plan, named Value Creation 21, for the three-year period from April 2001 through March 2004. The Value Creation 21 plan seeks to establish a "new Matsushita" that will place top priority on providing value-adding services to customers through the […]
Mondial de l'Automobile, also known as the Paris Auto Show, saw the presentation of many new and experimental concept-cars, but Citroën's (France)...
ON Semiconductor Corp. (Phoenix, AZ) has released a dc/dc converter it claims is 60 percent smaller in package size as compared to ON Semi’s previous offering, the MC33466. The NCP1400 is aimed at battery-powered consumer products such as handheld games, cellular phones and digital cameras. Because it is a micropower pulse width modulator (MPWM) step-up […]
Sustainable Development International (SDI, Alberta, Canada) plans to introduce various alternative energy initiatives to the US Department of Energy, the Canadian Federal government and the Alberta Provincial government. The US Department of Energy is proposing a $140,000,000 program to assist the US in becoming energy self-sufficient by the year 2010. The Canadian and Alberta governments […]
Sanyo Electric Co. (Osaka, Japan) has created a lithium-ion secondary battery manufacturing subsidiary, Sanyo Energy Co. (Beijing, China), in the Beijing Economic Technological Development Area in China. The Sanyo Group provided 100 percent of the capital for the new company, which will start with package assembly of lithium-ion secondary batteries. Starting in 2001, the new […]
AVX (Myrtle Beach, SC) has announced the new BestCap (Battery Energy Saving Technology Capacitor) product. These electromechanical supercapacitors are based on an...
Metallic Power (Carlsbad, CA) announced that it has reached a milestone by demonstrating its latest prototype power source in a new portable...
Artesyn Technologies (Boca Raton, FL) recently extended its range of dc/dc converters with the launch of a new portfolio of high-efficiency 15W modules. The company is introducing three new product families, comprising 16 different models, all of which are aimed at the emergent market for powering low-voltage silicon. All of these new low-voltage dc/dc converters […]
Sanyo Electric Co. (Moriguchi City, Japan) announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding with the Toshiba Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) and with Toshiba Battery Co. for the transfer of the Toshiba Group's nickel metal-hydride businesses to Sanyo. The Toshiba group will gain proceeds of nearly 10 billion yen (over $90 million dollars) from the […]
Beacon Power Corp. (Woburn, MA) has completed an initial public offering of 8 million shares of common stock at $6 per share. All shares were offered by Beacon Power Corporation. The offering raised $44.6 million in gross proceeds to the company, which will be used for general corporate purposes, including research and product development, sales […]
BP Solar (Linthicum, MD) converted a convenience store in Tucson, AZ to solar energy in an effort to demonstrate some of the real world applications of photovoltaic technology. Solar energy will now provide approximately 10 percent of the electricity required to operate the BP-owned ARCO am/pm convenience store. Conversion of the am/pm to the use […]
Spire Corp. (Bedford, MA) reported revenues and results of operations for the three- and nine-month periods ended 30 September 2000. Revenues for this quarter were $2,826,000, compared with $2,722,000 for the quarter ended 30 September 1999. Net loss for the quarter was $127,000, or $0.04 per share, compared to a net loss of $862,000, or […]