Airtricity (Dublin, Republic of Ireland) has chosen an ION® enterprise energy management system from Power Measurement Ltd. (Victoria, BC, Canada) to monitor electricity production at its Corneen wind park in Ireland. Located on the Slieve Rushen Mountain in County Cavan, the site's two 1.5 MW wind turbines produce 3 MW of clean electricity for the […]
siGEN Ltd. (Aberdeen, Scotland) announced a £183,000 contract with the Unst Partnership, a community project in the UK's most Northerly Island, for the installation of a renewable energy, hydrogen production and fuel cell project in Shetland. The Unst Partnership developed the Promoting Unst Renewable Energy (PURE) project devised by a local engineer. SiGEN was instrumental […]
Pepperl+Fuchs (Twinsburg, OH) introduced its Elcon high-integrity power supply, a 15 A, 24 Vdc system designed for highly efficient, reliable operation in...
Fujitsu Ltd. (Japan) announced that it has made progress in the development of a key component for direct-methanol fuel cells (DMFC), which are viewed as a future power source for portable equipment. The company is the second in as many weeks to announce development of a new membrane that should help lead to smaller and […]
MGE UPS Systems Inc. (Costa Mesa, CA), a leader in high-availability power solutions to the industrial, telecom and IT markets, as well...
Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (St. Louis, MO), introduced the Liebert IP Telephony Availability System, a complete power protection solution designed to deliver maximum availability of IP telephony equipment on the network edge. The Liebert IP Telephony Availability System brings data center-level power protection and support to server closets and other network edge […]
Artesyn Technologies Inc. (Boca Raton, FL), a leader in power conversion solutions and real-time subsystems for the communications industry, reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 26, 2003. Sales reported for the fourth quarter of 2003 were $99.3 million compared to $83.4 million for the same quarter last year. Net income […]
Oklahoma power wholesaler Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) has upgraded its electric metering system with an enterprise energy management system from Power Measurement Ltd. (Victoria, BC, Canada). With generation assets that include three hydroelectric plants and a coal-fired thermal generation facility, GRDA delivers wholesale electricity to half a million customers across 24 counties. The new […]
Power-One Inc. (Camarillo, CA) announced the integration of power conversion, control and communications with its Z-One Digital IBA™ architecture, which provides a...
FuelCell Energy Inc. (FCE, Danbury, CT) has signed an agreement with Arizona-based Salt River Project (SRP) to provide and service a 250kW Direct FuelCell® (DFC®) power plant. The DFC300A power plant will be owned and operated by SRP and will be located at the Arizona State University East Campus in Mesa. The unit will feed […]
Millennium Cell Inc. (Eatontown, NJ), a technology development company that has created a proprietary process to safely store, generate and deliver pure hydrogen, announced that it has signed a $10 million private placement financing through the sale of debentures convertible into common stock. Initially, $6 million will be made available in the form of unsecured […]
SatCon Technology Corp. (Cambridge, MA), a leader in power and energy management, announced that FuelCell Energy Inc. (FCE, Danbury, CT), a manufacturer of stationary fuel cell power plants for distributed power generation, has placed an order in excess of $900,000 for 300kW power conditioning units (PCUs) to be delivered in early 2004. The PCUs enable […]
Alternate Energy Corp. (AEC, Las Vegas, NV), a producer of low-cost hydrogen gas, announced that it has received $2,750,000 via a private placement of the company's common stock with institutional investors. The proceeds are expected to be used to fund interim working capital requirements, marketing and early-stage business development programs; complete certification of the company's […]
Millennium Cell Inc. (Eatontown, NJ), a technology development company that has created a proprietary process to safely store, generate and deliver pure hydrogen, and European automaker PSA Peugeot Citroen announced that they will work together to enhance the Millennium Cell Hydrogen-on-Demand™ fuel system in the fuel cell concept vehicle H2O, introduced at the 2002 Paris […]
UQM Technologies Inc. (Frederick, CO), a developer of alternative energy technologies, announced that it has received an order from Ballard Power Systems Inc. (Vancouver, BC) for additional fuel cell compressor drive motors. The company has been supplying its custom-designed motors to Ballard since early 2001 for use in its fuel cell engines. UQM Technologies President […]