IEEE, announced a community of global industry leaders are joining forces with the intention to form the Power Matters Alliance (PMA) under the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Industry Connections Program. The PMA is dedicated to remaking consumers’ daily interaction with power as wireless, environmentally sound, and smart. "IEEE has been a leader in the advancement […]
Speakers at the Fourth-Annual Green Building Power Forum (GBPF ’12) to be held January 23-25 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel San Jose...
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Greenvity Communications has entered into a technology partnership agreement with MegaChips Corp. to jointly develop a series of connectivity technologies for smart energy management and electric vehicle applications. The collaboration aims to deliver products that will enable consumers and utility companies to monitor, manage and optimize energy usage for smart-grid connected appliances, equipment and electric […]
The following are a listing (with links for the full story) of the most read stories on PowerPulse.Net for 2011, thus providing...
The following are a listing (with links for the full story) of the most read stories on PowerPulse.Net for 2011, thus providing...
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® released a new study, "Energy Consumption of CE in U.S. Homes in 2010," showing that despite their popularity in American homes, consumer electronics (CE) account for a relatively small share – roughly 13 percent – of the average U.S. home’s electricity consumption. There are nearly 2.9 billion CE devices in […]
Delta announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Delta Products Corp. nearly US$2 million in research project funding. The research project will develop smart-grid enabled residential electric vehicle chargers over the next 3 years that will allow the quick deployment of charging infrastructure for plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) to help reduce America’s […]
The following are a listing (with links for the full story) of the most read stories on PowerPulse.Net for 2011, thus providing...
Schneider Electric announced a strategic technology acquisition of the Viridity EnergyCenter 2.0 platform, the flagship product of a well-known start-up specializing in DCIM management software that provides a cross-functional solution for understanding the connection between physical infrastructure, IT equipment and the applications that run on them. With this investment Schneider Electric will acquire the intellectual […]
The ac-dc power supply market is projected to grow from $17.0 billion in 2011 to over $22.3 billion by 2016, a compounded...
Significant changes are occurring in the dc-dc converter module and IC markets that will produce unprecedented opportunities in the coming year. Although...
ABB announced that it has won an order worth about $11 million from Facebook Inc.’s subsidiary Pinnacle Sweden, to power its first server facility outside the United States. ABB will build two high- and medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear substations that will supply power to a data center being built in Luleå, a coastal town […]
The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), representing more than 95 percent of the U.S. lighting manufacturing industry, remains committed to and supportive of the lighting standards established in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA 2007). A rider related to light bulbs on the FY 2012 Omnibus funding bill does not repeal or […]
Data centre manufacturer Minkels, European producer of integrated data centre solutions for cooling, power distribution and housing, has launched a new product group under the name VariconPower™. This concerns a complete product line of Rack PDUs: Power Distribution Units for server racks. The addition of the VariconPower product group, with modules for server room power […]