The Green Grid, the global authority on resource efficient information technology and data centers, and a global taskforce created to harmonize metrics and measurement protocols for key energy efficiency metrics, today announced agreement on measurement guidelines and next steps for three new efficiency metrics. The taskforce reached consensus on the use of the Green Energy […]
Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation plc and electrical equipment supplier Cooper Industries plc announced that Eaton has completed its acquisition of Cooper. The acquisition was announced on May 21, 2012 and combines Eaton and Cooper into a new, premier global power management company named Eaton Corporation plc. “The $13 billion acquisition of Cooper, the largest […]
SunPower Corp. announced that it signed a definitive agreement to form a joint venture with partners Tianjin Zhonghuan Semiconductor (TZS), Inner Mongolia Power Group (IMP) and Hohhot Jinqiao City Development Company (HJCD) for the manufacturing and deployment of the company’s proprietary SunPower® C7 Tracker (C7) concentrator technology in the Chinese market. The joint venture, based […]
UNIPOWER LLC announces the availability of a high voltage DC (HVDC) input option on two key series of front-ends and rectifiers. Both...
ON Semiconductor has introduced the new NSIC20xx series of linear Constant-Current Regulators (CCR) designed for use in solid state lighting systems. The...
Tripp Lite has introduced four new rackmount UPS Systems. The four SmartPro® models, two with 3000VA capacity and two with 2200VA, provide critical equipment with reliable power protection and high-efficiency operation in just 2U of rack space. These new models are designed for protecting rackmount server, network and telecom equipment. Data Center and Network Managers […]
ET Solar Group Corp. announces that it has been granted the carbon footprint verification for its PV modules from TUV SUD Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. Carbon footprint is an important indicator for the environmental friendliness of the product design, manufacturing, quality control and logistics of the applicant companies. The verification is conducted through assessment of […]
International Rectifier Corp. announced the introduction of a family of StrongIRFET™ power MOSFETs featuring ultra-low on-state resistance (RDS(on)) for a wide variety...
The Murata Power Solutions PAH series of high efficiency, medium-power DC DC converters are capable of delivering up to 450 Watt output....
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) launched a new, interactive Consumer Electronics Energy Calculator today on its consumer site for living green, buying green and recycling responsibly. The calculator estimates the amount of energy used by all of the consumer electronics devices in a single household and provides tips on how consumers can save even more […]
Flux Power Holdings, Inc. has enhanced its product portfolio with the addition of a standard interface for solar and grid storage applications. This interface is able to control many industrial components such as inverters used for power management in solar and grid applications which greatly broadens the applicability and markets for their advanced energy storage […]
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Hitachi, Ltd. have reached a basic agreement on integrating businesses in fields centered on thermal power generation systems and jointly managing these operations. The firms will work together on a range of products including gas turbines for thermal power generation, environmental equipment and fuel cells. The two companies plan […]
A multi-partner team led by Argonne National Laboratory has been selected for an award of up to $120 million over five years to establish a new Batteries and Energy Storage Hub. The Hub, to be known as the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), will combine the R&D firepower of five DOE national laboratories, […]
The SmartPower Stack™ Consortium, comprised of Methode Electronics, Inc., SBE Inc., Fuji Electric Corp. of America and AgileSwitch, LLC announced the selection of the National Instruments(NI) single-board RIO general-purpose inverter controller (GPIC) as the integrated control system for a new 100kW intelligent power stack module. The NI GPIC features cutting-edge Xilinx field-programmable gate array (FPGA) […]
ChargePoint and Service Solutions US, LLC, a subsidiary of SPX Corporation, announced a reseller agreement for electric vehicle charging stations and services in the North American marketplace. Service Solutions, a supplier to virtually every major automotive manufacturer around the globe, will now resell all ChargePoint electric vehicle charging stations and services into auto manufacturers, their […]