Tyco Electronics Power Components (Menlo Park, CA) Raychem Circuit Protection Division introduced its new TVAxxxSA Series of SiBar thyristor surge-protection devices. With...
Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Corp. (DMFCC) has been formed to commercialize the direct methanol fuel cell technology developed at the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the University of Southern California (USC, Los Angeles, CA). DMFCC, Caltech and USC have signed a letter of intent for DMFCC to acquire rights to 22 issued, and over […]
For the first quarter ended January 31, 2002, FuelCell Energy Inc. (Danbury, CT) reported a net loss of $6.0 million, or $0.15 per basic and diluted share, compared with a loss of $2.8 million, or $0.09 per basic and diluted share, during the same quarter of the previous year. Revenues for the three months ended […]
The Darnell Group Inc. (Corona, CA) announced the release of its new 250-plus page report, "Energy Storage and Backup Power in Communications: Global Market Forecasts and Competitive Environment," which gives an in-depth analysis of the worldwide battery markets, broken down into wireline, wireless and CATV, and of emerging technologies such as nickel and lithium batteries, […]
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Japan) and Toshiba Corp. (Japan) plan to set up a joint venture to integrate their electric power transmission and...
Maxwell Technologies Inc. (San Diego, CA) introduced its new PC5-5 ultracapacitor, which measures only 17mm x 23mm x 9.5mm and stores 23J...
Absopulse Electronics (Carp, ON) announced its new PFC4500 telecom-quality, modular power supply with power-factor-corrected input, delivering 93A at 48V over 0 to +50 degrees C in continuous duty (i.e., 4.5kW or 3kW with N+1 redundancy) from a universal ac input. The PFC4500 features three hot-pluggable internal modules (each 5in x 5in x 14in) that provide […]
Ballard Power Systems Inc. (Vancouver, BC) Electric Drives and Power Conversion Division has signed a joint development agreement with Ford Power Products (FPP), a subsidiary of Ford Motor Co. (Dearborn, MI), to jointly develop commercial power generation products driven by spark-ignited combustion engines for the generator market. Other opportunities exist for on-road hybrid applications, such […]
Optimal Energy Systems Inc. (Torrance, CA) has been awarded a contract by Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) to provide flywheel technology for its Combat Hybrid Power System. Under the contract, Optimal will provide a prototype flywheel power module for a military vehicle system. Delivery is scheduled for July 2002. "This military vehicle contract is an […]
Advanced Energy Industries Inc. (Fort Collins, CO) reported fourth-quarter revenue of $34.0 million, down 12 percent from the third-quarter's $38.7 million, and 67 percent lower than the $102.7 million posted in the year-ago quarter. However, the company said it is seeing orders stabilize and expects first-quarter revenue to come in between $38.0 million to $40.0 […]
Guangdong Shunde City Shengye Electrical Co. Ltd. (China) introduced the new CBB30 to CBB34 Series of metallized plastic-film capacitors, which are sealed...
International Rectifier Corp. (IR, El Segundo, CA) announced the IRU3038, a synchronous PWM controller integrated circuit (IC) for the termination voltage requirements...
AVO International (Dallas, TX) has developed a new PA-9Plus power quality analyzer, which features a faster digital signal processor to support future...
Electrotek Concepts (Edison, NJ) has been awarded a contract by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association's Cooperative Research Network (CRN) to study the feasibility of aggregation and dispatch of customer or third-party-owned on-site generation installed primarily for backup power. The contract includes the development of monitoring, control and communication technologies to implement distributed generation (DG) […]
Autotest Co. (San Antonio, TX) announced that it is expanding its development of fuel cell testing and measurement applications. Autotest's President and CTO Robert Cox stated, "Our systems already offer the ability to test and evaluate the critical power outputs and QC requirements of fuel cells. We are currently working with automotive industry leaders to […]