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Following in the footsteps of its tri-state neighbors, New Jersey is establishing an infrastructure bank that is focused on energy resiliency. The names of these institutions vary across Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, but the idea is similar: leveraging public and private capital and the authority of the state to fund energy projects that provide cleaner, more reliable sources

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Back in May, Google announced its Little Box challenge, a $1 million prize for technology that can radically shrink the size and weight of inverters. This week, it opened the contest to applicants, announced the IEEE as a partner, and clarified just how small it’s hoping to get with the next-generation power conversion technologies. According to Google’s Tuesday blog post,

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The Electret Energy Harvester Alliance was at Techno Frontier for the second year demonstrating its progress in the development of small harvesters and systems based on electret technology. The Electret Allince was founded by Professor Yuji Suzuki, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tokyo. Corporate members currently include: OMRON Corp., Asahi Glass Co., Ltd, THHINK Wireless

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In today’s high-tech industries, sophisticated materials testing is one of the precondition for constant output quality at the product level. In industries like automotive, aerospace or tool machine building, magnets with customised magnetic properties and tight tolerances are increasingly used. Examples are magnetic encoders as sensors for angular and path measurement. For these components to function properly and reliably, it

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The Whisper Radio Processing Unit (RPU) from its Ensigma division uses optimized, configurable PHY and MAC blocks to support common IoT protocols such as WiFi, Bluetooth and Zigbee with low power and low cost. It will also support the coming 802.11ah sub-GHz version of WiFi but will not support them all at the same time. “If someone wants the fully

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It’s been a good year so far for EV news with Tesla’s Model S success, the announcement of a smaller, more affordable Tesla, and the release of their patents. Other developments, like Bhutan trying to switch to electric vehicles, only have added to it. Now comes the announcement that the UK government is funding a conversion of its fleets to

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Kiva is a world leader in microlending and has helped many people pull themselves out of poverty by lending them money to start small businesses. What may not be known as much is that Kiva also supports renewable energy projects. Below is an interview with them about their work in this area. How does Kiva develop renewable energy projects? Kiva

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BTS9000 is based on Neware 6th-generation testing system. It’s designed for battery material research, high-precision tests, pulse charge/discharge tests, DCIR test, and cycle life test. As the most cutting-edge equipment for battery material research, BTS9000 comes with extremely high accuracy(±0.02% of FS), amazing hardware response speed(≤100μs), wide range of applications, high-speed testing data acquisition and many other industry-proven characteristics, it’s

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BTS8000 is based on Neware 5th-generation testing system. It supports EV battery driving schedule tests, pulse charge and pulse discharge tests, Cycle life test, and charge and discharge tests with customer-defined rate.One of the most outstanding features of BTS8000 is the driving schedules simulating, which allows the system to charge or discharge the battery pack by simulating the actual vehicle’s

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BTS4000 is based on Neware 4th-generation testing system, and was introduced into the market in 2008. It’s the upgrade version of the most popular battery test equipment series of BTS3000. BTS4000 applies all the applications of BTS3000, plus EV battery pulse test, HPPC test and DCIR (direct current internal resistance) test. Comparing with BTS3000, BTS4000 greatly improved the hardware response

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