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May 12, 2006

Emerson Names New President of Liebert North America

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR) announced that Scott Dysert has been named president of Liebert North America. Dysert spent the past three years as president of Liebert Global Services, the certified support arm for all Liebert equipment. Prior to Liebert, Dysert, who reports to Bob Bauer, president of Liebert Worldwide and […]

Power Quality Protection

May 11, 2006

American Superconductor Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2006 Financial Results

American Superconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: AMSC), reported financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and full year ended March 31, 2006. Revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006 were $14.3 million, and the net loss was $11.0 million, or $0.34 per share. The net loss included a $5.0 million long-lived asset write-down related primarily to […]

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Communications Power

May 11, 2006

LEM Introduces Compact Split-Core Transducers for High AC and DC Currents

LEM Instruments Inc. has introduced the AHR series of AC and DC current transducers that offer precise measurement of nominal currents up...

Power Quality Protection

May 10, 2006

Beacon Power Announces First-Quarter 2006 Results

Beacon Power Corp. (NASDAQ: BCON), announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2006. For the first quarter of 2006, Beacon Power reported revenue of $289,000 and a net loss of $2,822,000, or ($0.05) per share, compared to revenue of $636,000 and a net loss of $2,245,000, or ($0.05) per share, in […]

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Digital Power

May 10, 2006

Echelon and Streetlight.Vision Team to Reduce Energy Usage in Streetlight Systems

Echelon Corp. (NASDAQ:ELON) and Streetlight.Vision have announced a collaboration to reduce energy and maintenance costs for streetlight systems in Europe, the Americas...

Batteries and Portable Power

May 9, 2006

Co-Founder and Former CTO of IdaTech Joins Protonex

Protonex Technology Corp., a leading provider of high-performance fuel cell power systems for portable and remote applications, announced today that Dr. David Edlund, a recognized expert in fuel reforming and hydrogen purification technology, hasjoined the Company. Previously, Dr. Edlund co-founded IdaTech, LLC, a leader in the development of fuel processors and integrated fuel cell systems, […]

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Power Quality

May 8, 2006

Single-Phase EMC Filters Added by Schaffner

Schaffner Ltd has added two new filters with very high attenuation performance for universal single-phase applications. These two new filter series complement...

Power Quality

May 8, 2006

Polycrystalline Shortage Inspires Spire to Offer GaAs Solar Cells

Spire Corporation announced that Bandwidth Semiconductor LLC, its wholly owned subsidiary, now offers custom gallium arsenide (GaAs) concentrator solar cells for terrestrial applications. These GaAs-based solar cells are based on Spire’s space and terrestrial solar cell technology developed over 25 years, during which record high cell efficiencies for terrestrial applications were produced. Higher efficiency means […]

Batteries and Portable Power

May 5, 2006

FuelCell Energy and Marubeni Extend Distribution Agreement

FuelCell Energy, Inc. has extended the distribution agreement with its Asian partner, Marubeni Corp. (TSE: 8002), to sell the company’s Direct FuelCell® (DFC) products in Japan. Terms of the revised agreement include a commitment by Marubeni to order 6MW of DFC power plants and a cash down payment related to the commitment. In exchange, FuelCell […]

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Power Quality

May 4, 2006

MGE Reduces the Entry Cost To Scalable Power Protection

MGE UPS Systems has launched the first building block of its Pulsar MX Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) system that is scaleable from...

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Communications Power

May 4, 2006

Green Grid Grows, Adds Three New Members

Within the past several days, Dell, Egenera, and Rackable Systems have all joined The Green Grid, a global organization focused on reducing...

Power Quality

May 1, 2006

MGE Intros New Version of its Enterprise Power Manager

MGE UPS Systems has introduced its new Enterprise Power Manager v2; a robust software program designed to give network and facility managers an intuitive and easy way of managing all of their networked Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) systems across the enterprise. MGE’s Enterprise Power Manager v2, can substantially lower costs for supervising single- and three-phase […]

Motion Control

May 1, 2006

AMCS to Deliver 49,000HP Superconducting Motor to the U.S. Navy

American Superconductor Corp. has finalized an additional contract amendment with the United States Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR). Under the terms of the amendment, the ONR has approved a $13.3 million increase to AMSC’s contract for the design, manufacture and shipment of a factory-tested 36.5-megawatt (MW) (49,000 horsepower) high temperature superconductor (HTS) propulsion motor […]