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Power Integrations, Inc. announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2014. Net revenues for the quarter were $90.1 million, up one percent from the prior quarter and down two percent compared with the third quarter of 2013. GAAP gross margin for the third quarter was 54.4 percent; operating margin was 18.7 percent. Net income for the quarter was

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What’s it going to take to make the installed cost of battery storage fall as fast as solar’s? Over the past five years, solar panel prices have fallen fast, dropping to as low as 50 cents a watt. Of course, panels are just one component of the total cost of installed solar. As panel prices leveled out, it became clear

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The global utility-scale solar market has clocked its fifth consecutive year of record growth, with newly released data showing total capacity has now reached 30.3GW, up from 21.5GW at the start of 2014. Figures released on Tuesday, along with the chart below, show that at the end of September the US was leading the big solar stakes with 407 utility-scale

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A few weeks ago, I published a poll on which was a bigger deal — Tesla D or Tesla’s new autopilot features. For the first time ever, I didn’t look at the results as they were coming in. Looking at the results just now, I was quite surprised to see that autopilot won out by a large margin. I did

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It seems that it is not just towns in New South Wales that are looking to meet all their own electricity needs with renewable energy – a small township in Victoria is also looking to become 100% renewable within a decade. The small town of Yackandandah, about 120kms south of Albury Wodonga, will host the launch of the ”Totally Renewable

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India has been taking notes from Germany to achieve its mega renewable energy targets. This can be seen from the push rooftop solar has been receiving, and also discussions to introduce a fixed feed-in tariff for utility-scale solar power. But there’s more. Mr. Upendra Tripathy (Secretary, Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy) recently spilled the beans at a press

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Filipino architecture has long made use of bamboo, a sustainable and low cost material that has made another striking appearance on the facade of this Courtyard House in Manila. Designed by Swiss architecture practice Atelier Sacha Cotture, this single-family house wraps around a central landscaped courtyard, a typology passed down from Manila’s Spanish colonial era. Rows of vertically oriented stained

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With Tesla propelling Nevada to the forefront of electric vehicle discussion, it is a good time to call attention to the benefits of electric vehicles (EV) in Nevada and ask policymakers to help Nevadans reap those benefits. Here at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), students and faculty at the Center for Energy Research (CER) are eager to work

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Panasonic Corporation announced that from January 2015 it will commence licensing of the unified IP core involving the provided digital circuit IP and analog circuit IP1, which is an indispensable component of one-chip system LSI for high-speed power line communication (HD-PLC)2. HD-PLC uses power lines in the home not only for power transmission but also for communication, just like LAN

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Silvaco, Inc. and TSI Semiconductors, LLC today announced that they have extended their collaboration to accelerate the development and production launch of TSI’s 0.25 µm BCDMOS process technology. TSI Semiconductors’ 0.25µm BCD with deep trench isolation is a feature rich platform that enables high growth applications in lighting, automotive, power, automation, and consumer goods. The technology is a new offering

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