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Communications Power
Lucent Replaces CEO
Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ) named Henry Schacht as the company's new chairman and CEO, replacing Richard McGinn. In a formal statement over the weekend, Lucent's board of directors thanked McGinn for his term as CEO, but was adamant that "an immediate change in leadership was necessary." Representing the board, Franklin Thomas, Lucent's senior director, […]
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981Power QualityMGE UPS Systems Introduces the New Pulsar Esprit SLR
MGE UPS Systems (Costa Mesa, CA) introduced the Pulsar Esprit SLR, which the company claims to be the smallest server-grade UPS in...
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762Power QualitySola/Hevi-Duty Introduces New Line of Three-Phase Power Conditioners
Sola/Hevi-Duty (Skokie, IL) introduced a complete product line of three-phase power conditioners ranging from 10KVA to 150KVA, which are available in most...
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Communications Power
Toshiba Debuts Smart Nonstop Power Supply System
Toshiba Battery Co. (Tokyo) has developed a compact UPS small enough to fit inside a typical PC. Called the Smart Nonstop Power Supply System, it was developed in cooperation with Nihon Protector Co. (Hyogo, Japan) and utilizes small, thin nickel-hydrogen batteries in place of the conventional lead-storage batteries and only one, rather than three, voltage […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
Intelec 2001
Intelec 2001 will be held October 14-18, 2001 in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. This will be the 23rd annual international conference dedicated to the exchange of information on energy and power for communication systems. Intelec 2001's theme will be "No Power, No Service, No Revenue." The conference […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
C&D's $75 Million Spending Plan For Fiscal 2002 Is Approved
C&D Technologies (Blue Bell, PA) announced that its board of directors approved a capital spending plan for fiscal 2002 of $75 million dollars. This is an increase of 50 percent over the current fiscal year capital budget of roughly $50 million. This budget will include capacity expansions in the company's industrial battery and power electronics […]
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Communications Power
AstroPower Announces Staff Expansion
AstroPower Inc. (Newark, DE) announced that it is expanding its marketing staff. The company recently completed a pilot program, called SunChoice, offering fully-packaged power systems to homes and businesses receiving traditional electric service. SunChoice is a rooftop solar system which connects to the normal utility grid and includes everything a consumer needs to generate his […]
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980Power QualityMCG Surge Protection Offers New SurgeFree 400XT Surge Protectors
MCG Surge Protection's (Deer Park, NY) new SurgeFree 400XTs are building entry/main service-panel surge protectors specifically designed for ANSI/IEEE C62.41-1991 Category C...
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Power Quality Protection
Autotest Introduces the Sirius Source Power Supply Tester
Autotest Co. (San Antonio, TX) introduced the Sirius Source, a new power source for the testing of standard and uninterruptible power supplies. This power source is being integrated into Autotest's line of power-supply testers and will be sold separately as an all-in-one source for power-supply builders and purchasers. The new Sirius Source is capable of […]
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Power Quality Protection
MGE UPS Receives Best Buy Award For Pulsar Ellipse 300
MGE UPS Systems (Costa Mesa, CA) has been presented with the Consumer's Digest's Best Buy Award for its Pulsar Ellipse 300. This award is granted to fewer than four percent of the products in a given category. The Pulsar Ellipse is designed to provide users with power protection and surge suppression in a lightweight package. […]
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Automotive Electronics
Solectria Force EV Equipped With Maxwell Ultracapacitors
Solectria Corp. (Wilmington, MA) recently announced that a Solectria Force electric sedan that is equipped with Maxwell Technologies (San Diego, CA) ultracapacitors performs significantly better overall than a typically-equipped electric car. A recently completed research project by the Northeast Advanced Vehicle Consortium (Boston, MA) and the Vermont Electric Vehicle Program (Waterbury, VT) showed that a […]
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Communications Power
India's Drive To Be An IT Giant May Be Dependent on UPSs
An analysis by Frost and Sullivan (San Jose, CA) indicates that India's drive to be an information technology giant is now dependent on UPSs. A growing number of telecommunications, financial services and manufacturing firms are now requiring higher levels of protection against power outages. Additionally, small and medium enterprises and offices are increasing their computing […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
Beacon Power Announces IPO
Beacon Power Corp. (Wilmington, MA) set its planned initial public offering at eight million shares of common stock at $11 to $13 per share. In an amended prospectus filed on Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company announced that it expects to raise about $88.1 million in net proceeds from the offering. The […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
Southern, AMEA, FuelCell Energy and Mercedes-Benz – Clean Energy Options
Southern Company (Atlanta, GA), Alabama Municipal Electric Authority (Montgomery, AL), FuelCell Energy (Danbury, CT) and Mercedes-Benz have joined in a historic partnership to field test an environmentally responsible power generation technology as part of the process of bringing clean energy options to the marketplace.The power plant will utilize FuelCell Energy's Direct FuelCell stack, converting pipeline […]
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Automotive Electronics
Layne Holley Chosen As Observer For EVonyx's RPC Test
The Alternative Fuel Vehicle Group(New York) announced that Layne Holley, editor of Electric Vehicle Progress was chosen by EVonyx Inc.(Hawthorne, NY) as their official impartial observer during a test drive of an electric vehicle powered by their new zinc-air Revolutionary Power Cell (RPC). The goal of the test drive was to set a record by […]
