The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) announced its membership has grown to 100 companies with the recent additions of Huawei and Visteon Corp. Huawei, a mobile handset manufacturers, and Visteon, a global automotive parts supplier, both joined WPC in October. WPC members include well-known companies like Energizer, HTC, LG, Verizon, Motorola, Nokia, Philips, Panasonic, Samsung, Sanyo, […]
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Smith Electric Vehicles Files S-1 Registration Statement for Initial Public Offering of Common Stock
Smith Electric Vehicles Corp. filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of its common stock. Smith Electric Vehicles designs, produces and sells zero-emission commercial electric vehicles to commercial fleet operators. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet […]
ABB to Acquire Powercorp in Australia to Expand Offering for Renewable Integration
ABB has agreed to acquire Powercorp, an Australian renewable power automation company. This acquisition strengthens ABB’s portfolio of control technologies used to manage the integration of renewable energy sources. Powercorp employs around 30 people and offers automation and intelligent control solutions to manage renewable energy generation in isolated grids, ensuring utility grade power quality and […]
PEI-Genesis Value-Adds Power Supplies from Emerson Network Power for Delivery in Europe in Only 5 Days
PEI-Genesis, Inc. announced an agreement with Emerson Network Power in which PEI-Genesis will distribute and add value to power supply products from Emerson Network Power for customers in Europe. This is an expansion of an existing Americas distribution agreement announced in June 2011. “We are pleased that we are now authorized to assemble Emerson Network […]
Ballard Signs MOU With Delta To Expand Focus Of Clean Energy Fuel Cell System Sales in India
Ballard Power Systems announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Delta Power Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd. , a subsidiary of Delta Electronics (Thailand) PLC, expanding the range of clean energy applications they will focus on under an existing fuel cell system collaboration agreement. Dalip Sharma, Managing Director of Delta Power Solutions […]
Emergence of DC-DC Converter PSiP Market Identified and Quantified
Darnell Group’s first-edition analysis, “DC-DC Converter ICs: Power System in Package, Worldwide Technology Trends, Forecasts and Competitive Environment” identifies and quantifies where PSiP products are encroaching certain dc-dc converter IC markets and could replace traditional solutions over the next five years. The total Worldwide PSiP dollar market is projected to grow from approximately $65 million […]
AnalogicTech Reports Financial Results for the Third Quarter 2011
Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc. reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2011. Net revenue for the third quarter of 2011 was $22.1 million, compared to net revenue of $25.0 million for the third quarter of 2010, and $24.1 million for the second quarter of 2011. In accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting […]
AMETEK Programmable Power Adds LXI Compliance to California Instruments AC-DC Power Sources
AMETEK Programmable Power has added LXI compliance to most of its California Instruments ac-dc power sources. LXI is a widely adopted industry standard for LAN/Ethernet connectivity among various instrument manufacturers in order to create high-speed, high channel-count or remote measurement systems using standard Ethernet interfaces. Herman van Eijkelenburg, Director of Product Marketing for AMETEK Programmable […]
Exclusive: Orbital solar power plants touted for energy needs
The sun’s abundant energy, if harvested in space, could provide a cost-effective way to meet global power needs in as little as 30 years with seed money from governments, according to a study by an international scientific group. Orbiting power plants capable of collecting solar energy and beaming it to Earth appear “technically feasible” within […]
Highest Output Power Density Inverter Uses SiC JFETs from SemiSouth
SemiSouth Laboratories, Inc. has announced that silicon carbide JFETs made by the company are being used in small 0.5 litre inverters to achieve an output power density of 30kWh/l. If inverters of this size and capacity are used with PV panels, one inverter could supply enough electricity for up to five households, it is claimed. […]