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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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Renesas Electronics Europe today announced the release of the “Connect it! – Wireless M-Bus 868 MHz” and “Connect it! – Wireless M-Bus 169 MHz” solution kits. These platforms enable engineers to save time by re-using existing Wireless M-Bus solutions to add communication capabilities to their metering applications. Wireless M-Bus is fast becoming a standard for bringing communication to existing metering

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Spansion Inc. today added 96 new products to the Spansion® FM4 Family of flexible microcontrollers (MCUs). Based on the ARM® Cortex®-M4F core, the new MCUs boast a 200 MHz operating frequency and support a diverse set of on-chip peripherals for enhanced human machine interfaces (HMIs) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. The rich set of peripherals and large memory allow single-chip solutions

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The innumerable variations of voltage, current and resistor values frequently create major challenges for the designer of components. The question that often arises is which solution has the least compromises. Metallux AG can actually fall back on the benefits of two technologies: thick-film resistors and wire-based resistors. In practice, it is the application that defines clear specifications for the resistance.

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Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s government will negotiate with the opposition to cut Australia’s renewable energy target and exempt industries such as aluminum and copper smelting. Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane said he was “reasonably confident” the target would be reduced from the current 41,000 gigawatt hours of electricity from renewable projects to between 26,000 and 28,000. While negotiations with Labor will

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Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) introduces the EPC9118, a fully-functional buck power conversion demonstration circuit. This 400-kHz buck converter board uses an input of 30- to 60-V and delivers a 5-V, 20-A maximum output current. It features the EPC2001 and EPC2015 enhancement-mode (eGaN®) field effect transistors (FETs), as well as the LTC3891 buck controller. This buck converter design is designed

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The Sultanate of Oman is building the largest wind farm in the Gulf States region. The $125 million, 50-megawatt project is a joint development between Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, Masdar, and Oman’s Rural Areas Electricity Company (RAECO). Estimated to generate enough clean electricity to power 16,000 homes and mitigate 110,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, the project is

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UK-based solar farm operator Primrose Solar is teaming up with solar company Solarcentury to build a 48 MWp solar farm on the Southwick Estate in Fareham, Portsmouth. The farm will produce enough clean electricity to power 11,000 homes, but that’s not the whole of the good news story. The companies are taking a holistic approach to the project with the

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