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Automotive Electronics
Capstone Turbine Lowers Third-Quarter Sales Expectations
Capstone Turbine Corp. (Chatsworth, CA) announced that it has substantially lowered its expectations for sales of its 30kW and 60kW microturbine units during the quarter ending September 30, 2001, and for the full year 2001. "We reported in our SEC filing for the second quarter that a large portion of our sales occurred during the […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
GM Applies Fuel Cell Technology to Stationary Power
General Motors (GM, Detroit, MI) unveiled a stationary generator based on the company's fuel processing and stack technology for automotive applications. The 5kW stack unit, which can generate clean, quiet and efficient power, could be a backup generator for subdivisions at risk of losing power because of common blackouts, or could even replace standard sources […]
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Communications Power
MGE UPS Systems Introduces New Comet EXtreme UPS
MGE UPS Systems (Costa Mesa, CA) introduced its new Comet EXtreme Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) that is one of the industry's smallest UPS systems to provide over an hour of scalable power protection in a compact tower or rack configuration. Ideal for networks, B2B, e-commerce and other critical applications, the new Comet EXtreme's modular design […]
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866ComponentsTyco Electronics Debuts New PolySwitch RXE005 Device
Tyco Electronics Corp. (Menlo Park, CA) announced that its popular line of PolySwitch resettable over-current protection has been extended to include the...
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Batteries and Portable Power
DCH Delivers Fuel Cell to UOP for System Development
DCH Technology Inc. (Valencia, CA) announced it's plan to integrate a 5kW PEM DCH Enable fuel cell with a natural gas reformer supplied by UOP LLC (Des Plaines, IL) to provide a stand-alone power quality system for an electric utility in France by year-end. The fuel cell was delivered by DHC to UOP's facility last […]
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786Communications PowerInvensys Introduces New Powerware ConnectUPS-BD and ConnectUPS-X
Invensys Powerware Division (Raleigh, NC) announced the debut of the Powerware ConnectUPS-BD and the Powerware ConnectUPS-X, the latest additions to its family...
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Batteries and Portable Power
Hydrogenics Signs Distribution Agreement with Toyota Tsusho
Hydrogenics Corp. (Toronto) announced that it has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Toyota Tsusho Corp. (TTC, Japan) to market and sell Hydrogenics' FCATS products in the Japanese market. FCATS is Hydrogenics' proprietary product line of automated, industrial systems for testing and controlling fuel cells and fuel cell stacks. "We are very excited about our […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
Sustainable Energy Announces Private Placement Proposal
Sustainable Energy Technologies Ltd. (Alberta, Canada) announced that it has signed a letter of intent under which its major shareholder, Sabre Energy Ltd. (Canada), will invest $5.0 million in the company's power electronics subsidiary, Sustainable Energy Laboratories Inc., in exchange for a combination of common shares and convertible debentures of Sustainable Labs. The investment is […]
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Automotive Electronics
Teledyne Energy Announces PEM Fuel Cell Test Stations
Teledyne Technologies Inc. (Los Angeles, CA) announced that Teledyne Energy Systems Inc. delivered its first three Teledyne Medusa RD automated fuel cell test stations, used in testing and evaluating proton-exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell products. Teledyne Medusa RD is a next-generation fuel cell test station that provides an easy-to-use platform for the automated testing of […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
Siemens Westinghouse Provides SOFC System to Alaska
Siemens Westinghouse Power Corp. (Orlando, FL) announced that it has signed a contract with BP to install a 250kW solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) at BP's gas-to-liquids test facility in Nikiski, AK. The prototype SOFC system will be installed in 2003 and will use natural gas as its fuel. BP plans to use about 150kW of […]
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888Power Quality ProtectionEnron CEO Jeffrey Skilling Resigns
Enron Corp. (Houston, TX) President and CEO Jeffrey K. Skilling has unexpectedly resigned, citing personal reasons. Skilling, 47, was president and COO...
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Batteries and Portable Power
TechSys Accelerates SOFC Research and Development
TechSys Inc. (Florham Park, NJ) announced that in conjunction with its partner Adelan Ltd. (Birmingham, England), the company has approved plans and is providing funding for the immediate expansion of Adelan's laboratory facilities at Birmingham's Research Park to advance technology development, product engineering and eventual production of its solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) products. "Adelan is […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
Research Consortium Awarded Fuel Cell Research Contract by US Army
Motorola Labs (Tempe, AZ) researchers have been notified that a Power and Energy Alliance Consortium that they have formed with Honeywell International Inc. (Phoenix, AZ), Engines and Systems, SAIC, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) and others has been awarded an eight-year, $49.0 million dollar cooperative agreement by the US Army Robert Morris Acquisition […]
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Automotive Electronics
Fuel Cell Technologies Receives Award to Develop SOFC
Fuel Cell Technologies Corp. (FCT, Ontario, Canada) announced it has received an award of approximately $6.5 million (US$4.5 million) by the Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA) of the US Department of Energy (DOE, Washington, DC). The award is to carry out the first four years (Phase 1) of a planned 10-year program. FCT is […]
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Communications Power
Advance-Galatrek Offers New MasterElite MultiTec UPS
Advance-Galatrek (UK) has developed a range of single- and three-phase uninterruptible power systems (UPSs) for use in medium-sized professional data- and voice-processing environments. The units are designed to deliver sinewave power protection up to 20kVA, and offer a wide variety of customization and communication options, to provide a highly flexible power-protection installation. The MasterElite MultiTec […]
