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The US wind industry is booming, installing more in the first 9 months of 2014 than was installed throughout all of 2013. The figures come from the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), which predicts 2014 will finish strong and push through to stepped-up installations throughout 2015. According to the AWEA, 19 projects have already been completed in the United States

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Sunrun is apparently one of the nation’s top companies when it comes to customer satisfaction and loyalty, according to the results of a recent year-long survey. The survey — which gathered ratings given by 2,200 Sunrun customers over the past year — resulted in the company achieving an average Net Promoter score (NPS®) of 64, a score that puts the

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Though China’s lax automotive regulations have been rarely enforced, the central government says that it will begin publicly naming and punishing companies that don’t meet fuel economy and emissions standards, reports Euronews. China’s major cities have notoriously dangerous levels of smog, and the government is pushing a scrappage program for older vehicles as well as generous incentives towards the purchase

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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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