Power Quality | Power Factor Correction | Totem Pole Pfc

February 19, 2015

Powerstorm to Unveil Its MESS in Barcelona

Powerstorm Capital Corp. will be attending Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on March 2 – 5, 2015, and will unveil its modular...

Batteries and Portable Power

February 19, 2015

Scalable Li-ion Storage for Hybrid Renewable / Diesel Sites

NEC Energy Solutions today launched a highly-scalable storage solution that enables base stations and small cells to be reliably powered by solar or wind energy or by hybrid renewable and diesel generators. It features the NEC Energy Solutions ALM™ 12V35 product line of 12-Volt, 35 Amp-hour lithium-ion batteries that can be combined in 12V, 24V, […]

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Components

February 19, 2015

Power Factor Correction Boost Controller

Linear Technology Corporation announces the LT8312, a power factor correction (PFC) boost controller that can achieve a power factor of greater than...

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Power Quality Protection

February 18, 2015

Largest Ever US Energy Storage Deployment

Alevo Group today announced that it has signed a joint operational agreement with Customized Energy Solutions (CES) to provide 200MW of GridBank-powered...

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Energy Efficiency

February 18, 2015

Ultracaps Store Energy in Smart Grid Testbed

Maxwell Technologies, Inc. announced that Freqcon GmbH has deployed an energy storage system for the Tallaght Smart Grid Testbed in Ireland that...

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Power Quality Protection

February 18, 2015

DC Arc-fault Circuit Protection Technology for Solar Power Plants

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it has developed a dc arc-fault circuit protection technology for solar power plants that detects any...

Power Quality Protection

February 17, 2015

EPRI Unveils Benefit-Cost Framework for an Integrated Grid

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) released today a framework that all stakeholders in the electricity sector can use to assess benefits and costs of technologies and systems related to the integration of distributed energy resources (DER), such as solar, wind and micro-grids, into the planning and operations of the electric system. EPRI also identified […]

Communications Power

February 17, 2015

Midsized UPS aims to Maximize Capital and Operational Efficiencies

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson, today introduced the Liebert® eXM UPS system for small and medium power requirements seeking greater cost control, flexibility, optimization and speed of deployment. The 3-phase UPS will be available in North America (including Canada), Central America and Latin America in March in eight fixed capacities from 10 to […]

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Batteries and Portable Power

February 17, 2015

Flow Batteries for Grid-Scale, Commercial and Industrial Energy Storage

Imergy Power Systems today introduced its new ESP250 series of vanadium flow batteries. Featuring an output power capability of 250kW, 1MWh of...

Energy Efficiency

February 16, 2015

Telekom Austria partners with bsf IT-Solutions for Smart Meters

Telekom Austria Group M2M and bsf IT-Solutions announced a new partnership, committed to replacing conventional electric meters of numerous power grid operators with smart meters. In a joint project, Telekom Austria Group M2M and bsf IT-Solutions will replace conventional electric meters of numerous power grid operators with smart meters. bsf IT-Solutions goes for first ready-for-use […]

Batteries and Portable Power

February 11, 2015

BASF opens €100,000 Grid Energy Storage Innovation Contest

The Open Innovation Contest BASF SE has started aims to find ideas to store energy from renewable energy sources. The context calls for sustainable technologies which are capable of storing power from the grid and feeding it back into it. Together with companies, scientists, start-ups and inventors, BASF is looking for efficient solutions to store […]

Energy Efficiency

February 11, 2015

Grid Resilient 30kW Converter targets Microgrids

Ideal Power Inc. introduced its Grid Resilient 30kW Power Conversion System (PCS) with microgrid forming capabilities. This new product will work in both 50Hz and 60Hz environments and support grid resiliency for commercial and industrial customers world-wide, giving them the additional ability to form their own microgrid to enable backup power during grid power outages. […]

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Components

February 10, 2015

250V C0G Surface-Mount MLCCs

Kemet Corporation today announced expansions to its commercial and automotive lines of surface mount multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) in C0G dielectric. KEMET...