Tyco Electronics Corp. (Menlo Park, CA) announced that its popular line of PolySwitch resettable over-current protection has been extended to include the...
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 […]
Ballard Power Systems Inc. (Canada) and GPU Inc. (Morristown, NJ) announced that their respective subsidiaries, Ballard Generation Systems (BGS) and GPU Diversified Holdings LLC, have restructured their relationship to allow for increased focus on the market and distribution aspects of commercializing fuel cell products for stationary applications. In anticipation of the launching of commercial stationary […]
Midtronics Inc. (Willowbrook, IL) announced the opening of its new European headquarters. The new location remains in IJsselstein, the Netherlands, and is about three times the size of the previous facility. The new office includes an expanded laboratory and facilities for hosting customers and distributor training seminars. According to Wim Koster, vice president and managing […]
UQM Technologies Inc. (Golden, CO) CEO William G. Rankin told shareholders at the company's annual shareholder meeting that it currently has two new fuel cell products under development for a major fuel cell development company. These new products are in addition to the air compressor drive motors currently being supplied to Ford's and DaimlerChrysler's next […]
Invensys Powerware Division (Raleigh, NC) announced the debut of the Powerware ConnectUPS-BD and the Powerware ConnectUPS-X, the latest additions to its family...
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Enron Corp. (Houston, TX) President and CEO Jeffrey K. Skilling has unexpectedly resigned, citing personal reasons. Skilling, 47, was president and COO...
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 […]
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 […]
DTE Energy Co. (Detroit, MI) announced 2001 second-quarter operating earnings of $70.0 million, or $0.48 per basic and diluted share, excluding the impact of merger restructuring charges and goodwill amortization. Earnings for the 2000 second quarter were $108.0 million, or $0.76 per basic share. DTE Energy's reported earnings for the second-quarter 2001 were an $87.0 […]
The board of directors of Exide Technologies (Princeton, NJ) voted a cash dividend for its first fiscal quarter of 2002 of $0.02 per share of common stock, payable September 5, 2001, to shareholders of record on August 23, 2001.