Comverge, Inc. unveiled its vision for Intelligent Energy Management, the next-generation of software, hardware, and services that help electric utilities, commercial and industrial (C+I) organizations and consumers optimize energy usage. According to the company, by addressing today’s energy challenges and managing the complexities of the smart grid, Intelligent Energy Management build’s on its long history […]
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Hitachi and Johnson Controls Announce Plans to Collaborate on Advanced Energy Storage
Hitachi, Ltd. and Johnson Controls, Inc. announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together on several fronts in the field of advanced energy storage. The collaboration agreement between the two companies reflects their long-term vision and commitments to the global advanced energy storage space. The companies will study opportunities for collaboration […]
Emerge Alliance Advances DC Power Distribution Platform at Smart Grid Electronics Forum; to Focus on Energy Efficient Data Centers
The EMerge Alliance– an open industry association leading the rapid adoption of safe direct-current (dc) power distribution standards for commercial buildings – today announced during the Smart Grid Electronics Forum in San Jose, California, that it has formed a new technical standard committee for data and telecommunications centers and added 11 new members as part […]
SoloPower Receives IEC Certification
SoloPower, Inc. announced that it has become the first solar company to obtain certification to both IEC (61646 and 61730) standards and UL 1703 standards for flexible, thin film CIGS modules. This pacesetting accomplishment enables SoloPower to sell flexible, lightweight CIGS modules in Europe in addition to North America. “Achieving these certifications clearly puts us […]
SunHydro and Proton Energy Systems Open Solar-Powered Hydrogen Fueling Station in Connecticut
Proton Energy Systems and SunHydro announced the opening of the first solar station at 10 Technology Drive in Wallingford, Connecticut., the companies’ headquarters. Proton Energy Systems and SunHydro are sister companies and the station will run under the SunHydro banner. The solar-powered station in Connecticut marks the start of the East Coast Hydrogen Highway SunHydro […]
Power IC Market makes a full recovery in 2010
Following a decline of over 14% in 2009, the world market for power management and driver ICs is forecast to recover fully in 2010, growing by 20% to over $12 billion. Strong annual growth is projected for the next four years. This is according to the latest analysis from IMS Research. All sixteen of the […]
Tyndall Workshop Redefines PwrSoC and Moves Toward Commercialization
By redefining the meaning of a PwrSoC from “Power Supply on Chip” to “Power System on Chip,” and extending the definition of the “chip” itself, the Second International Workshop on Power Supply on Chip (PwrSoC ’10) (hosted by the Tyndall National Institute in Cork Ireland) featured many speakers from both industry and academia who indicated […]
UTC Offers To Acquire Remaining Interest in Clipper Windpower
United Technologies Corp. has reached agreement with the management and independent members of the board of directors of Clipper Windpower Plc (CWPL) on the terms of a cash offer by UTC to acquire all remaining shares of Clipper. Clipper is a California-based wind turbine manufacturer. UTC currently holds approximately 49.9% of the issued share capital […]
TDK-Lambda Joins PMBus Alliance
TDK-Lambda has joined the PMBus™ Alliance. The PMBus protocol is a standard way to communicate with power converters and other devices in a power system. Owned by the System Management Interface Forum, or SMIF, the PMBus protocol is implemented over the industry-standard SMBus serial interface and enables programming, control, and real-time monitoring of compliant power […]
Panasonic Preparing Launch of New Series of EVERLEDS Lighting Products for FY 2011
Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as PEW) will start releasing a series of additional “EVERLEDST™” LED lighting products for FY 2011 (ending March 2011) from this spring. The lineup of LED lighting products which offer more comfortable and greener lifestyle will be expanded to approximately 1,100 items in total composed of approximately […]