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The innumerable variations of voltage, current and resistor values frequently create major challenges for the designer of components. The question that often arises is which solution has the least compromises. Metallux AG can actually fall back on the benefits of two technologies: thick-film resistors and wire-based resistors. In practice, it is the application that defines clear specifications for the resistance.

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Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s government will negotiate with the opposition to cut Australia’s renewable energy target and exempt industries such as aluminum and copper smelting. Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane said he was “reasonably confident” the target would be reduced from the current 41,000 gigawatt hours of electricity from renewable projects to between 26,000 and 28,000. While negotiations with Labor will

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Enphase Energy, Inc. announced its Enphase AC Battery, an energy storage solution with a modular, plug-and-play storage device fully integrated with the just-introduced Enphase Energy Management System. Based on a distributed architecture, the AC Battery is a safe, reliable and easy-to-install storage solution, designed for residential and commercial applications. The modular battery provides system owners with the ability to store

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Led by new integrated, max-performing ac-powered solar modules, LG Electronics USA is exhibiting a host of solutions from the LG Mono X® monocrystalline module series here this week. At the Solar Power International (SPI) Expo 2014, LG is displaying new solar module upgrades, combining a new level of performance and flexibility for both home and business owners seeking lower utility

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Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) introduces the EPC9118, a fully-functional buck power conversion demonstration circuit. This 400-kHz buck converter board uses an input of 30- to 60-V and delivers a 5-V, 20-A maximum output current. It features the EPC2001 and EPC2015 enhancement-mode (eGaN®) field effect transistors (FETs), as well as the LTC3891 buck controller. This buck converter design is designed

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Microchip Technology Inc. announced its latest Digitally Enhanced Power Analog (DEPA) controllers—the MCP19118 and MCP19119 (MCP19118/9). They provide simple yet effective analog pwm control for dc-dc synchronous buck converters up to 40V, with the configurability of a digital MCU. And they are the industry’s first devices to combine 40V operation and PMBus™ communication interfaces. These features enable quick power-conversion circuit

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The Sultanate of Oman is building the largest wind farm in the Gulf States region. The $125 million, 50-megawatt project is a joint development between Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, Masdar, and Oman’s Rural Areas Electricity Company (RAECO). Estimated to generate enough clean electricity to power 16,000 homes and mitigate 110,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, the project is

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UK-based solar farm operator Primrose Solar is teaming up with solar company Solarcentury to build a 48 MWp solar farm on the Southwick Estate in Fareham, Portsmouth. The farm will produce enough clean electricity to power 11,000 homes, but that’s not the whole of the good news story. The companies are taking a holistic approach to the project with the

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Electric vehicles are the fastest-growing market segment in Europe, outpacing even the popular crossover market in year-over-year growth. This has apparently struck a chord with Italy’s Technicar, which wants to launch an 800 horsepower electric supercar called the Lavinia to compete with the likes of the LaFerrari. Technicar is in the early stages of prototype development, so what you’re looking

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A new report from the US Department of Energy has revealed that system prices for distributed solar PV in America dropped by between 12 and 19 per cent nationwide in 2013 – and will likely fall by a further 3-12 per cent this year, depending on system location and market segment. The third edition of a jointly written report on

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