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Nidec Corporation today announced that the Nidec Research and Development Center has developed a motor-drive system based on an SiC inverter. The Nidec Research and Development Center has succeeded in making a concept model of a drive system using a magnet-less motor with a SiC based inverter, by applying the above drive technology to an SR motor (switched reluctance motor)

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In 2005 Procter & Gamble acquired Duracell, which is the current global battery market leader, as part of a $50bn acquisition of Gillette. In exchange for a recapitalized Duracell company, which will include approximately $1.7 billion in cash at closing, P&G will receive shares of P&G’s common stock currently held by Berkshire Hathaway having a current value of approximately $4.7

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It’s analyst day at solar manufacturer and project developer SunPower. We’ll be tuning in throughout the morning — but here are a few of today’s announcements, along with the firm’s guidance. SunPower will be tripling its capacity over the next five years CEO Tom Werner just announced that SunPower intends to triple its upstream solar manufacturing capacity over the next

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This year’s international “Science Award Electrochemistry” was recently awarded by Volkswagen and BASF to Dr Vanessa Wood, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), for her work with lithium-ion battery technology. Dr Wood was chosen specifically owing to her work analyzing the way that the microstructures of electrodes influence the efficiency of lithium-ion batteries. As part of this

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Solid-state batteries capable of delivering on a 400+ mile range per single charge are a real possibility and possess “great potential” according to Volkswagen’s Chairman of the Board Dr Martin Winterkorn. Those comments from Winterkorn were made recently during a Stanford award ceremony for “Science Award Electrochemistry.” Bold comments (relatively so anyways). Of course, if such a battery can be

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Sky Solar — the Hong Kong-based energy producer — has reduced its upcoming initial public offering (IPO) of shares by around two-thirds, according to recent reports. This means that rather than the $138 million valuation reported last month, the initial valuation is now down to $48 million. It should go without saying, but I’ll say it anyways — that’s a

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Coal-fired power plants have been the backbone of US electricity production for decades, but 25% of them will be retired by the end of this decade. Some of their replacements will be fueled by LNG. Others will make way for a disruptive technology that can “switch from charging to discharging in less than 1 second” and has a “significantly higher

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China seems to have become central to Solar Power Inc.’s business expansion plans, as the company is on an acquisition spree in the country. SPI Solar, through one of its Chinese subsidiaries, has entered into a partnership with GD Solar, which gives the former the right to purchase 100 MW of solar PV power capacity. As per the deal, SPI

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After Gujarat’s success with canal-top solar photovoltaic power plants, other Indian states are also planning large-scale implementation of similar projects. India’s northern state of Punjab plans to set up 1,000 MW of solar PV projects to cover several kilometres of canals over the next three years. The state government has announced a target to cover 5,000 km of canals across

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The Philae Lander, carried onboard the spacecraft, has woken successfully from its deep space hibernation and is now preparing to be the first ever craft to make a controlled touchdown on a comet nucleus later today. The Rosetta spacecraft was launched in March 2004 and has now travelled more than forty times Earth’s distance from the Sun, including 31 months

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