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The Australian government – and ministers Greg Hunt and Ian Macfarlane, in particular – like to tell everyone how much they support renewable energy. But they seem to be doing their level best to trash the industry in Australia. Key data released late last week underlines the disastrous state of the large-scale renewable sector: for all intents and purposes, it

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Adaptive Networks, Inc. today announced the introduction of a new powerline networking modem series to its Powerline Communications family of products. The new MWB™ Powerline Modems will allow companies operating in the most electrically adverse and challenging industrial environments to support multipoint networks at longer distances and higher network speeds, for an even more reliable and robust powerline communications (PLC)

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At the world’s biggest electronics show, electronica in Munich, ROHM Semiconductor will present its most recent developments from the company’s R&D centers as well as co-developments with partners which have been manufactured in its fully integrated production sites. The new devices feature future-oriented properties reflecting latest material research, proprietary process and packaging technologies. Designed to meet the ever increasing demand

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The final barrier preventing energy suppliers making the switch from ac power grids to faster, more efficient dc systems could now be removed, thanks to research carried out at the University of Birmingham. Electrical engineers, led by Xiao-Ping Zhang, Professor of Electrical Power Systems at the University, have developed a way of managing faults in dc power systems. The solution,

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While the UK’s iconic phone booths are still considered national icons, cellphones have largely rendered the big red boxes obsolete over the years. Solarbox London plans to change that by transforming phone booths into free solar-powered phone charging stations. The company’s retrofitted phone booth chargers are painted bright green, and they now bring solar energy to the selfie-addicted masses. Kirsty

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The Tehachapi Energy Storage Project — the biggest battery energy storage project to date in North America — has now opened. The 32 MWh battery energy storage system built by Southern California Edison (SCE) comprises lithium-ion batteries from LG Chem stationed in a special 6,300 square-foot facility at SCE’s Monolith substation in Tehachapi, California. The project was built in that

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Tesla is continuing its Chinese expansion, this time opening a Supercharging station in Chengdu, China. Festivities were held on site at the Chengdu Yingtai Centre, where six Supercharging stations opened, according to Teslarati. Commercial real estate developer Yintai Holdings, known for its luxurious Chinese shopping malls, helped complete the deal. This is Tesla’s breakthrough into western China. The company already

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A 3-year, $6.3 million dollar project to improve every aspect of the American wind turbine production process/industry was recently begun via a partnership between Sandia National Laboratories, Iowa State University, and TPI Composites (an operator of a wind turbine blade factory). The project — the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Initiative — aims, specifically, to improve the labor productivity of blade fabrication

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Blue OLEDs are one of a trio of colors used in OLED displays such as smartphone screens and high-end TVs. The improvement means that the efficiencies of blue OLEDs in these devices could jump from about five to 20% or better in the near future. Phosphorescent OLEDs or PHOLEDs produce light through a mechanism that is four times more efficient

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Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation (TMEIC, Tokyo, Japan) has formed a new manufacturing subsidiary in North America, TMEIC Power Electronics Products Corporation, to manufacture solar photovoltaic (PV) inverters in North America. Fabrication of PV inverters will commence in the fall of 2014 at the Houston, Texas based facility. The factory’s production will start with “Solar Ware” UL certified PV Inverters,

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