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The pricing regulator in the Australian state of New South Wales has slashed the recommended (but voluntary) level of feed-in tariffs for rooftop solar, while at the same time rubber stamping an increase in gas prices in the state of up to 20 per cent. IPART (the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal) announced on Wednesday that its draft determination for

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California issued a storage mandate and settled its net metering debate last year. Texas is in the process of overhauling its ancillary services market. Minnesota has set a value-of-solar tariff. But all of that is small potatoes compared to the market transformation for electric distribution utilities that New York just announced. New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo has asked his public

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New-build wind and solar energy systems can generate electricity for up to 50 per cent cheaper than new nuclear power plants, a German study has found. The research, commissioned by German think tank Agora Energiewende, compares feed-in tariffs for new nuclear in the UK with FiTs for renewables in Germany, and finds that nuclear and carbon capture and storage (CSS)

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The noted multinational engineering and electronics company Bosch will soon be releasing a new energy management system for the optimization of electrical and thermal energy consumption from personal solar power systems, according to a recent announcement from the company. The new system is expected to launch at this year’s Intersolar exhibition and conference. Referred to as an “intelligent networked solution,”

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It’s an interesting question, but also a question that seems much simpler than it actually is. As Ryan has done, you can use some static assumptions, plug in some numbers, and come up with a guess… but that approach is going to end up way off in reality. Frankly, I’m not going to spend my evening trying to come up

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Chroma System Solutions has expanded its offering of Digital Power Meters designed for both single-phase and multiple phase measurements of ac power signals and related parameters common to most electronic products. Instead of traditional analog measurement circuits the 66200 Digital Power Meter uses state-of-the-art DSP digitizing technology. The internal 16 bits analog/digital converters with sampling rates of up to 200KHz

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Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTC2933 programmable voltage supervisor with built-in EEPROM for simultaneous, accurate monitoring of up to six voltage rails from 0.2V to 13.9V. Requiring no external resistors to set thresholds, the LTC2933 provides an I²C/SMBus interface to access onboard EEPROM, so users can quickly configure the device and review faults or violation history through the easy-to-use LTpowerPlay™

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Power Assure, Inc. today announced the general availability of EM/5, its next generation monitoring solution featuring certified integration with ServiceNow. EM/5 is a complete, hosted data center monitoring solution, which brings real-time and historical metrics to ServiceNow customers, with the ability to leverage existing asset databases, dramatically cutting the time and expense traditionally experienced in deploying a Data Center Infrastructure

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Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new type of rechargeable lithium battery with components made entirely of carbon. Unlike the lithium-ion batteries currently sold around the world to power smart phones, laptops, and countless other devices, this new battery is made without the toxic metal cobalt. The new technology, detailed in a research paper published this week

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Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) reported first-quarter revenue of $2.98 billion, net income of $487 million and earnings per share (EPS) of 44 cents. Those results represent a 3% increase in revenue from $2.88 billion in the first-quarter of 2013, an increase of 35% in net income from $362 million in Q1 of 2013 and an increase of 38% in EPS

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