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That tailwind Toyota may be feeling in Japan won’t be from a stiff breeze off the northern Pacific Ocean. The Japanese automaker is getting ready to start selling its first production hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle in its native country next year. And the government is ponying up real big in incentives, Reuters says. The Japanese government will provide incentives worth about

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Africa has experienced massive economic growth over the last decade, but in order for this growth to translate into significant development outcomes, big investments will be needed to provide electricity to the 600 million sub-Saharan Africans who lack it, said a panel of development experts at Breakthrough Dialogue. Lack of cheap and reliable energy is a significant barrier to continued

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Renewable energy on the march Keeping with the steady growth and adoption of renewable energy, the latest Energy Infrastructure Update report just released from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Energy Projects states that wind, solar, biomass, geothermal and hydropower accounts for 55.7 percent of newly installed generating capacity in the U.S. for the first half of 2014. Of

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LG Chem, the South Korean company that supplies batteries to General Motors and Renault among others carmakers, will offer electric vehicles more than 200 miles of range by 2016, reports Automotive News. Chief financial officer Cho Suk-jeh, who revealed LG Chem’s ambitions last week, did not confirm which carmakers would use the new batteries, although LG Chem’s technology can currently

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A NEW generation of plug-in hybrid taxis will soon ply London streets and will be green enough to satisfy the toughest emissions regulations foreseeable. THE Metrocab REE is the brainchild of British manufacturer Fraser Nash and a development partner, Ecotive. They will be putting the car through its paces in the British capital this summer before offering the cab for

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Exar Corp. announced a family of half duplex RS-485 transceivers optimized to operate over a wide 2.8 V to 5.5 V supply voltage range. The wide operating range makes these transceivers ideal for isolated applications where the remote devices are powered through the cable. The XR33032/5/8 wide supply transceivers can tolerate significant voltage drop along the cable resistance and still

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Venture capital funding into smart grid companies came in at $81 million in 13 deals in Q2 2014, compared to $101 million in 21 deals in Q1 2014. Battery/Storage companies raised $90 million; Energy Efficiency companies raised $113 million, all according to Mercom Capital Group, llc. Twenty-five investors participated in VC funding rounds in Q2 2014. Siemens Venture Capital was

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Gaia Converter, Inc. extends its ultra-wide input voltage range dc-dc converter platform to the new High Rel MGDD-60W series, targeting military and airborne applications. Uniquely wide, the MGDD-60 Series 12-160V input voltage range complies with Mil-Std-1275, 704 or DO-160 standards without additional front end protection device. This also includes the new and very-stringent Mil-Std-1275E version. This unique performance is achieved

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Efficiency organizations around the world have begun to take notice of the amount of energy consumed in the ever-expanding web of home and business networks. A recent report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) claims there are more than fourteen billion network-enabled devices in use globally. Projections point to fifty billion network-enabled devices deployed by 2020 and one-hundred billion network-enabled

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California’s push to transform the market for grid-scale energy storage is working even better than expected — at least on paper. Last year, California created a mandate calling for 1,325 megawatts of energy storage projects by 2020, to be scaled up every two years. The first installment of proposals due this year adds up to 200 megawatts. As of mid-2014,

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