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Tollgrade Communications, Inc.announced today the availability of its LightHouse® Medium Voltage (MV) Power Sensor for Europe. Today, European grid operators are under increasing pressure to meet low carbon and efficiency mandates. As renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are brought into the aging grid, they have the ability to disrupt grid operations, causing a higher likelihood of blackouts

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Artesyn Embedded Technologies today announced the AVO75 series, new 75-W fully-regulated eighth-brick dc-dc converters that bring high efficiency and thermal performance to cost-sensitive, small space, high current and low voltage telecom network infrastructure applications. The AVO75 series is capable of delivering up to 25A output current and a single adjustable output between 1.2- and 12-Vdc from a 2:1 range input

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TDK Corporation presents a new series of ultra-compact EPCOS µDC-DC converters. They feature a footprint of only 2.9 mm x 2.3 mm and an insertion height of 1 mm. One 6-MHz power switch is embedded in the miniature PCB. The integrated power module saves up to 35 percent space compared with conventional discrete solutions. The modules are designed for an

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International Rectifier Corp. today introduced a comprehensive family of IGBT modules for high power industrial applications including motor drive inverters, switch mode power supplies (SMPS), uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), solar inverters and welding. The family utilizes IR’s extremely rugged and reliable IGBT technologies (NPT with Planar-gate and Field Stop with Trench-gate) and established diode technology to offer a range of

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Power Integrations, Inc. announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2014. Net revenues for the quarter were $90.1 million, up one percent from the prior quarter and down two percent compared with the third quarter of 2013. GAAP gross margin for the third quarter was 54.4 percent; operating margin was 18.7 percent. Net income for the quarter was

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What’s it going to take to make the installed cost of battery storage fall as fast as solar’s? Over the past five years, solar panel prices have fallen fast, dropping to as low as 50 cents a watt. Of course, panels are just one component of the total cost of installed solar. As panel prices leveled out, it became clear

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The global utility-scale solar market has clocked its fifth consecutive year of record growth, with newly released data showing total capacity has now reached 30.3GW, up from 21.5GW at the start of 2014. Figures released on Tuesday, along with the chart below, show that at the end of September the US was leading the big solar stakes with 407 utility-scale

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A few weeks ago, I published a poll on which was a bigger deal — Tesla D or Tesla’s new autopilot features. For the first time ever, I didn’t look at the results as they were coming in. Looking at the results just now, I was quite surprised to see that autopilot won out by a large margin. I did

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It seems that it is not just towns in New South Wales that are looking to meet all their own electricity needs with renewable energy – a small township in Victoria is also looking to become 100% renewable within a decade. The small town of Yackandandah, about 120kms south of Albury Wodonga, will host the launch of the ”Totally Renewable

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India has been taking notes from Germany to achieve its mega renewable energy targets. This can be seen from the push rooftop solar has been receiving, and also discussions to introduce a fixed feed-in tariff for utility-scale solar power. But there’s more. Mr. Upendra Tripathy (Secretary, Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy) recently spilled the beans at a press

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