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Your renewable energy infrastructure projects are far too expensive to make random decisions on siting. For many reasons – not the least of which are cost, efficiency and productivity – siting should be as exact as the science behind renewable energy itself. Visual assessments don’t cut it. Paper maps aren’t efficient. Most online maps don’t offer the amount of information

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The Federal Housing Finance Agency, the government entity responsible for regulating America’s multi-trillion-dollar secondary mortgage market, is reportedly easing its opposition to local programs that allow homeowners to pay for renewable energy and efficiency retrofits through their property taxes. That’s according to a report from Asset-Backed Alert, an industry publication that covers securities markets. The publication reports that the Federal

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With abundant sunlight and plenty of open space, deserts are an obvious place to put large solar arrays, but there’s a downside: lots of dust, and not enough rainfall to wash it off. A buildup on solar panels can reduce efficiency by anywhere from 7 to 40 percent, according to various research efforts. Cleaning them takes manpower and usually water,

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Littelfuse, Inc. IGBT Power Modules are available in a broader range of package designs, now including half-bridge, six-pack, and PIM modules in S, D, H, W, and WB packages, with ratings up to 1700V and 450A. These modules offer the high efficiency and fast switching speeds of modern IGBT technology in a robust and flexible format. In addition to the

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NIC Components Corp. announced the addition of NCLP series metal strip current sensing resistors to its expanded offering of SMT resistive products. NCLP series utilizes multiple metal constructions (Ni-Cr, Mn-Cu and Fe-Al-Cr) for low thermal EMF performance and stable TCR of +75ppm / degree C. Offered in resistance value range of 1mΩ to 500mΩ (0.001 to 0.500 Ohm) in 1%,

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Fairchild Semiconductor launched the first 1000V integrated power switch, offering the industry’s highest breakdown voltage in a single package for designing highly reliable switching mode power supplies for smart meter, appliance and industrial systems. The new FSL4110LR integrated power switch eliminates the need for external components found in competing solutions, enabling power designers to easily meet their time to market

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Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) announces the EPC2105, 80 V enhancement-mode monolithic GaN transistor half-bridge. By integrating two eGaN® power FETs into a single device, interconnect inductances and the interstitial space needed on the PCB are eliminated. This increases both efficiency (especially at higher frequencies) and power density, while reducing assembly costs to the end user’s power conversion system. The

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As more and more high performance electronics are utilized across a wide range of applications, it has stimulated a growing need to provide new innovative thermal materials that can effectively manage the heat dissipation challenges. In line with this need Parker Chomerics is constantly evolving its range of THERM-A-GAP™ thermally conductive dispensing gels in order that customers can maintain both

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Analog Devices, Inc. introduced two components that work together as an integrated analog controller to offer energy recycling and significant performance and cost benefits over current rechargeable battery formation and grading system solutions. The AD8450/1 precision analog front-end and controller, and the ADP1972 buck or boost pwm controller provide energy efficiency benefits in the charging and discharging cycles, both as

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XP Power announced what it believes to be one of the first 5-Watt plug top power supplies to comply with the new Energy Star level VI energy efficiency standard. A requirement for all such external power supplies in use from February 2016, the VEL05 and VER05 series meet the standard’s no load input power requirement of <0.1 Watt. Introduced in

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