Advanced Power Conversion plc (APC, Farnborough, England) announced a new 60W dc/dc converter with two fully isolated outputs in a compact and...
Frontier Electronics Corp. (Simi Valley, CA) introduced its new TSS1230F-01 CCFL inverter transformer, which delivers a maximum lamp wattage of 1.2W and...
Proton Energy Systems Inc. (Wallingford, CT) announced that it has supplied a HOGEN 380 hydrogen generator for a hydrogen and renewable energy project in Barth, Germany. The system, delivered last November, was commissioned and successfully passed acceptance testing earlier this month. The HOGEN 380 hydrogen generator will be used to compress and store hydrogen at […]
EBARA BALLARD (Tokyo, Japan), the jointly owned company of Ballard Power Systems Inc. (Vancouver, BC) and EBARA Corp. (Tokyo, Japan), unveiled the...
Absopulse Electronics Ltd. (Carp, ON) announced its new VFC501 variable ac power source, which delivers 500VA of power at any frequency in...
Shares of companies working on fuel cell technology posted sharp gains as White House officials said President George W. Bush planned to propose an increase in spending on fuel cell research in his State of the Union address scheduled to air January 28, 2002. Two senior White House officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said […]
Superior MicroPowders LLC (SMP, Albuquerque, NM) announced that it has signed a subcontract agreement with DuPont Fuel Cells (Wilmington, DE) allowing the two parties to collaborate under SMP's recently awarded $5.12 million program from the US Department of Energy (DOE, Washington, DC) for fuel cell materials development. The DOE program focuses on the development of […]
Stuart Energy Systems Corp. (Toronto, Canada) announced that it has been selected by Fortum Group (Finland) to supply an intelligent hydrogen-fueling station...
GrafTech International Ltd. (GTI, Wilmington, DE) announced it has received an order valued at approximately $500,000 for GTI fuel cell products from Ballard Power Systems Inc. (Vancouver, BC) under its existing supply agreement. The order provides for delivery over the next six months and will support the demand for Ballard's Mark 902 fuel cell stack. […]
BASF Venture Capital GmbH (Ludwigshafen, Germany) is providing Euro 2.5 million to become the lead investor in ZOXY Energy Systems AG (Germany),...
The State of New York Public Service Commission (NYPSC) has approved the ION 8000 Series line of intelligent energy meters for revenue-metering applications within the State of New York. Manufactured by Power Measurement (Victoria, BC), the ION 8300™, ION 8400™ and ION 8500™ devices are programmable, multi-function electricity meters suitable for monitoring energy transactions across […]
Power Integrations Inc. (San Jose, CA) announced financial results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2002. Net revenues for the fourth quarter of 2002 increased four percent to $29.2 million from $28.2 million in the third quarter of 2002, and 23 percent from $23.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2001. Net […]
Astec Power (Carlsbad, CA), a merchant supplier of power conversion solutions, introduced its new single-output ALQ Series of dc/dc converters in an industry-standard quarter-brick configuration. The converters feature a low profile of 0.38in (9.65mm) high and a high power density in a convenient open-frame construction that is suited to distributed power architecture applications. Operating from […]
STMicroelectronics Inc. (ST, Geneva, Switzerland) reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2002. Net revenues for the fourth quarter were $1,786.1 million, an 8.6 percent sequential increase over the $1,645.2 million reported in the 2002 third quarter, and 23.4 percent above the $1,447.9 million of last year's fourth quarter. Revenues […]
Xantrex Technology Inc. (Las Vegas, NV) recently demonstrated three backup power solutions: the new Xantrex hybrid backup power system (Xantrex HBPS), the...