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Bundled, Block, Volumetric Rates are the Barrier to Unleashing DER Innovation It’s no secret that net energy metering (NEM) is a controversial topic in the electricity world these days. Customers love the way it helps solar PV offset their utility bill and adds clean energy to their home or business. Some solar advocates argue it is foundational to the continued

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Of all the Australian states, the part of Australia we call South has the most wind and solar capacity per person. Wind power generates electricity equal to about a third of the state’s total consumption and rooftop solar generates about 6%. We don’t have utility-scale solar on account of how we don’t do that sort of thing here. It would

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Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today reported third-quarter revenue of $3.50 billion, net income of $826 million and earnings per share of 76 cents. Regarding the company’s performance and returns to shareholders, Rich Templeton, TI’s chairman, president and CEO, made the following comments: Recommended: Digital Power Consortium formed by CUI, Ericsson and Murata “Revenue for the quarter was solidly in the

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Distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) system prices dropped by 12 – 19 percent nationwide in 2013, according to the third edition of a jointly written report on PV pricing trends from the U.S. Energy Department’s (DoE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). In addition, 2014 prices are expected to drop another 3 – 12 percent, depending

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International Rectifier Corp.(IR) announced that the company will demonstrate its industry-leading power management solutions at Electronica, Munich, November 11-14, 2014. IR’s innovative energy saving technologies and products will be on display in Hall A5, Booth 320. In addition to the latest motor control and automotive solutions, demonstrations of IR’s GaN-based power device platform, GanPowIR® will also be highlighted as well

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SPARQ Systems, Inc. announced $11 million in funding led by ArcTern Ventures, a venture capital fund that provides early-stage capital to companies in the cleantech sector. A MaRS Cleantech client, SPARQ Systems’ technology converts power produced from solar panels into electricity that can be used by the grid. SPARQ System’s uQuad is the world’s first 4-in-1, 1,000-W residential microinverter that

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Emerson Network Power has extended the capacity of the Liebert eXL family of large, transformer-free uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems with today’s introduction of the Liebert® eXL 1200 kVA/kW UPS, as well as upgrades to the previously released 800 kVA/kW model. Designed for colocation facilities and large enterprise data centers, the Liebert eXL UPS 1200 kVA is available in single

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Renesas Electronics Europe today announced the release of the “Connect it! – Wireless M-Bus 868 MHz” and “Connect it! – Wireless M-Bus 169 MHz” solution kits. These platforms enable engineers to save time by re-using existing Wireless M-Bus solutions to add communication capabilities to their metering applications. Wireless M-Bus is fast becoming a standard for bringing communication to existing metering

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Spansion Inc. today added 96 new products to the Spansion® FM4 Family of flexible microcontrollers (MCUs). Based on the ARM® Cortex®-M4F core, the new MCUs boast a 200 MHz operating frequency and support a diverse set of on-chip peripherals for enhanced human machine interfaces (HMIs) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. The rich set of peripherals and large memory allow single-chip solutions

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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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