President Barack Obama announced a competitive grant program to boost the development of electric vehicles (EVs), including grants to finance domestic production...
Synergistic Lighting Technologies, LLC (SLT) announced what it describes as the modernization to the traditional 60W incandescent bulb. The Tru-Spectrum™ bulb is...
Researchers at Cornell University and DuPont have developed a method of preparing carbon nanotubes for suspension in a semiconducting "ink," which can...
Raritan introduced new features to its Dominion® PX rack power distribution unit (PDU) solutions – which provide detailed power information, down to the individual outlet level – to help data centers optimize operations and manage energy. The new firmware for the PX intelligent power strips enables companies to gather from servers and other data center […]
Energy Innovations, Inc. announced that Joseph Budano has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer and will also serve on the company’s board of directors. Budano brings more than 25 years of corporate leadership experience and was most recently President of the programmable power division of Xantrex Technologies Inc., a $250M solar inverter and power […]
Under funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the U.S. Department of Energy Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) has released a Notice of Intent for an upcoming cost-shared solicitation that seeks to increase the energy efficiency of server-based telecommunications and data center facilities. ITP plans to release the solicitation in March 2009. Potential applicants should […]
Englert Environmental unveiled an integrated metal roofing system that can deliver much of the energy, heating and water needs of the average American home without tapping into local utility resources. The new rooftop system provides electric power, hot water heat and water for outdoor and indoor uses all in a single package. Englert’s UltraCOOL Energy […]
Microchip Technology Inc. announced two hands-on workshop series that provide participants hands-on experience with the latest motor-control solutions and Microchip’s tools. One workshop series is focused on sensorless Brushless DC (BLDC) motors, while the other is on sensorless Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSMs). "We are pleased to offer this opportunity for hands-on motor control training, […]
The Alliance for Universal Power Supplies (AUPS), an umbrella organization dedicated to fostering industry-wide standards for universal ac to dc power, backed the GSM Association’s recent move to standardize mobile phone chargers, calling it "a major step toward smart, environmentally responsible consumer electronics manufacturing." At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, 17 wireless […]
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) announced plans for a five-year program to develop up to 500MW of clean solar photovoltaic (PV) power in its northern and central California service area, said to bee one of the largest undertakings of its kind in the country. The proposed program consists of up to 250MW of utility-owned […]
The just-released First Edition of "Vehicle Electrification: Worldwide Forecasts" from the Darnell Group provides a detailed roadmap of the successive application segments...
The city of Los Angeles’ 140,000 streetlight fixtures will be replaced with LED units over the next five years with help from the Clinton Climate Initiative in what is being described the most extensive municipal green lighting retrofit thus far. Former president Bill Clinton announced the project this week in Los Angeles, where the city’s […]
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. announced that it has improved what it describes as its world’s highest conversion efficiency rate for a 150 x 150mm practical-size multi-crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) cell by 0.3 points from 18.6% to achieve a new world record of 18.9%. In addition to the technology already developed by Mitsubishi Electric to improve the […]
Micropelt GmbH, a specialist in thin film thermoelectrics, announced immediate commercial availability of what it describes as the world’s first thermo-powered wireless sensor system, the TE-Power NODE. Micropelt’s built-in chip thermogenerator takes a few degrees of temperature differential and harvests that thermal energy to operate the wireless sensor node, enabling what is described as unlimited […]
MicroGen Systems, LLC has been awarded a $300,000 contract for its "Piezoelectric Vibrational Energy Harvester" project by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). The program budget is $619,000 with $319,000 in matching funds coming from The University of Vermont (UVM) Innovations Fund, ITC’s Army Research Laboratory funds, and MicroGen itself. MicroGen […]