Tag: new energy news

China’s electric vehicle industry is looking to make itself competitive by creating vehicles that can appeal to both low-end and high-end buyers alike as the country attempts to reduce pollution levels, reports the Guangzhou-based Time Weekly. There are three factors affecting the successful promotion of electric cars: quality products, good complementary accessories and having smart business models, an industry expert

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CleanTechnica readers are very well aware that most solar and EV market research forecasts are utter shite. Most of us are horrible fortune tellers, and market research firms covering disruptive technologies don’t seem to have much of an advantage there. Many of you are also well aware that most of the news about technology breakthroughs is hype, at best, and

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Murata invites visitors to Electronica to come to their stand, B5 – 107, and view the latest innovations in component technology. With the theme of “Shaping the world through innovation”, all the demonstrations and new products will be based on a variety of concepts suitable for use in automotive, consumer, healthcare, industrial, security and energy applications. Recommended: Infineon Syndicates €1.55

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AEG Power Solutions announces the addition of two new Sales Vice-Presidents, Hans Van Nikkelen Kuijper, and John Ferriman. Van Nikkelen Kuijper and Ferriman have highly experienced senior profiles and are considered expert in the power electronics business. Hans Van Nikkelen Kuijper is a seasoned sales professional and manager having been in various management positions including CEO and General Manager with

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Microsemi Corporation today introduced its new reverse power feed (RPF) technology, a critical technology for FTTdp and G.fast deployments. G.fast, the new xDSL standard for 1gbps over copper, has a maximum expected range of 250 meters (m). In order to achieve the highest data rates with G.fast, shorter loop lengths are required which leads to the need for fiber to

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Future Facilities Ltd. today announced a significant update to 6SigmaET, the company’s powerful, intuitive and easy-to-learn thermal simulation tool for use by designers of electronic components and products. Release 9 of 6SigmaET integrates a new CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) solver that can radically speed up thermal simulation, as well as introducing a number of enhancements to the tool’s functionality and

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Eaton Corp. announced new management capabilities for data centers and colocation facilities with its best-in-class ePDU® third-generation (G3) platform in the Americas, featuring one percent revenue-grade power monitoring for enhanced accuracy and efficiency through its ePDU G3 managed models. Providing the ability to measure energy consumption and control power at the outlet level, Eaton’s robust platform combines all the benefits

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We tend to think of Minnesota for its fishing, snow, and progressive politicians, but solar? Well if Minnesota has its way, solar arrays could soon be seen along the public rights-of-way that line the state’s highways. The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) has released a request for proposal (RFP) accepting bids to build and manage solar arrays, which would provide

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International Rectifier Corp. (IR) today announced the expansion of its StrongIRFET™ MOSFET portfolio to include 75V devices for a wide variety of industrial applications including power tools, Light Electric Vehicle (LEV) inverters, dc motor drives, Li-Ion battery pack protection, Hot-Swap and Switched Mode Power Supply (SMPS) secondary-side synchronous rectification. The new family of 75V StrongIRFET™ power MOSFETs features ultra-low on-state

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JinkoSolar Power, a subsidiary of Jinko Solar, has partnered with the government of Shicheng County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, China to develop a 200MW PV power plant. The aggregate investment amount required for the project is approximately $261 million (RMB1.6 billion). Zhuokeng and Fengshan villages host the new plant. In scope and cost, it compares well with another JinkoSolar Power

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