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Plug Power Receives DTE Hydrogen Power Plant Contract
Plug Power Inc. (Latham, NY), a fuel-cell development and manufacturing company, announced a contract award to provide on-site hydrogen generation to the Detroit Edison Company's St. Clair power plant located in East China, MI. The hydrogen will be used to provide cooling to six generator units currently in operation at the St. Clair facility. Under […]
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Power Quality Protection
Enpirion Closes $17 Million Series B Funding
Enpirion Inc. (Bloomsbury, NJ), a developer of power management solutions, announced that it has closed its second round of funding with a total of $17 million invested. RRE Ventures and Columbia Capital led the round with participation from new investor Intel Capital and the original Series A participants, Canaan Partners and SAS Investors. Jim Robinson […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
EaglePicher Relocates Corporate Headquarters
EaglePicher Inc. (Phoenix, AZ) unveiled the grand opening of its new corporate headquarters in Phoenix, AZ. The new facility also serves as the headquarters of EaglePicher Technologies LLC (Phoenix, AZ), a wholly owned subsidiary of EaglePicher Inc. The new facility totals 100,000 ft², offering employee office space and amenities as well as enhanced service and […]
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Communications Power
MGE UPS Intros New Galaxy 4000 UPS
MGE UPS Systems Inc. (Costa Mesa, CA), a leader in high-availability power solutions to the industrial, telecom and IT markets, introduced its Galaxy 4000 uninterruptible power supply (UPS), which is designed to meet the stringent power demands of critical data centers and industrial facilities. The 40 kVA, 50 kVA, 65 kVA and 75 kVA online […]
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Communications Power
Renewable Energy Businesses Announce National Alliance
Leading renewable energy business organizations announced the formation of the Renewable Energy Business Alliance to amplify and unify their voice in support of policies and programs to expand renewable energy production in the United States. The national trade associations representing the wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, landfill gas and waste-to-energy industries together with public power and […]
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Automotive Electronics
GE to Add Engineers at Wind Energy Plant
GE Energy (Atlanta, GA), a leading supplier of power generation and energy delivery technology, reported that it anticipates that its wind energy plant in Salem will increase production, and is hiring 30 electrical engineers to handle the work. The new workers will be involved in the production of power converters, more commonly called a windmill.
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Batteries and Portable Power
Fuel Cells Installed for Testing at Offutt Air Force Base
Two fuel cells have been installed at Offutt Air Force Base as part of a cooperative project for the base to test the reliability of fuel cells. The US Army Corps of Engineers, IdaTech Corp. (Bend, OR), a fuel cell system/component and fuel cell solutions provider, and the Omaha Public Power District are involved. The […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
Manhattan Scientifics Receives Important Fuel Cell Patent
Manhattan Scientifics Inc. (Los Alamos, NM) confirmed that it has been issued US Patent No. 6,808,834 Koschany – Fuel Cell Stack with Cooling Fins and Use of Expanded Graphite in Fuel Cells. Invented by Arthur Koschany, the hydrogen-powered NovArs fuel cell has been successfully demonstrated in a number of prototype, pre-commercial situations, and is intended […]
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Power Quality Protection
VRB Power Subsidiary Approves Share Cancellation
VRB Power Systems Inc. (Vancouver, BC) announced that at the company's annual general meeting of Pinnacle VRB Ltd. held on December 20, 2004, all of the appropriate resolutions to complete the terms of the Revised Implementation Agreement announced October 27, 2004, were passed by its minority shareholders. The sale of VRB Power's Pinnacle shares, transfer […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
MTI Announces New Board Appointments
Mechanical Technology Inc. (MTI, Albany, NY) announced that effective December 16, 2004, William Phelan and Thomas Marusak have been appointed to the company's Board of Directors as new members. Phelan was also named Chairman of the company's Audit Committee. "We are privileged to add these outstanding executives to MTI's Board of Directors," said MTI Chairman […]
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Automotive Electronics
Ballard Claims Investment from DaimlerChrysler and Ford
Ballard Power Systems Inc. (Vancouver, BC, Canada) has exercised its right to claim a $55 million investment from DaimlerChrysler AG (Stuttgart, Germany) and Ford Motor Co. (Dearborn, MI), part of an agreement signed last December 31, 2003. DaimlerChrysler will buy 2.4 million common shares of Ballard at $12.34 each for a cost of $30 million. […]
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Power Quality Protection
ROAL Electronics Intros PS164A AC-DC Power Supply
ROAL Electronics USA Inc. (Los Angeles, CA) introduced its new PS164A high-power density, ac-dc power supply, 12 Vdc output bus for distributed power architecture applications. The PS164A provides 1,600 W output power at high range with automatic input-voltage selection. The PS164A is equipped with a patented digital multi-phase power-factor correction circuit, controlled by a single, […]
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Power Quality Protection
Power Integrations Offers Solutions for CEC Requirements
Power Integrations Inc. (San Jose, CA), a leader in power conversion semiconductor technology, presented a suite of solutions enabling electronics manufacturers to comply cost-effectively with new, mandatory energy-efficiency standards for the state of California. The mandatory standards, introduced by the California Energy Commission (CEC), place energy efficiency requirements on both ac-dc and ac-ac external power […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
Oak Ridge Begins Facility and Equipment Upgrades
Oak Ridge Micro-Energy Inc. (Oak Ridge, TN) announced the beginning of the second phase of its business plan. The company has received the first of two deposition toolsets from a manufacturer in Florida, and anticipates that the second and final piece will be delivered by January 14, 2005. With the installations, the company's manufacturing capacity […]
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1.1KPower Quality ProtectionDelta Expands E48SB Converter Series with 240 W Model
Delta Electronics Inc. (Chungli, Taiwan), a leader in power systems technology and manufacturing, introduced the new 240 W E48SB eighth-brick-sized bus converter...
