The list of sponsors for the third-annual DC Building Power Asia conference (DCBPA ’11) to be hosted December 12 & 13 at the Sheraton Taipei has expanded. Event sponsors now include National Chung Cheng University and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), and Chung-Hsin Electric and Machinery Manufacturing Corp. (CHEM) has signed on as the sponsor for the Fuel Cell and Smart Meter Laboratory and Factory Tour that will be offered for no charge on the Wednesday morning following the conference.
“We are excited about the expanded scope of this year’s event,” stated Jeff Shepard, President of Darnell Group. "In addition to enjoying a strong group of sponsors, we have an expanded Advisory Committee of internationally-recognized experts being co-chaired by Dr. Tsai-Fu Wu, Director of the Elegant Power Application Research Center at Taiwan’s National Chung Cheng University; Dr. Keiichi Hirose, Senior Research Engineer with NTT Facilities; and Hideo Miyazawa, Executive Director with Fujitsu Components. And this year’s event will feature a post-conference tour of a working DC Micro Grid and Smart Meter lab at CHEM," Shepard concluded.