Tag: news

25
Dec

COTS Power Factor Correction Front End Module

Astrodyne Corporation now offers a half-brick COTS ac-dc power module with an output voltage of 375Vdc. The PFC-375, part of Astrodyne’s UniVerter Series, offers high reliability in the most demanding applications. Suited for use in military and commercial aviation applications and other challenging thermal and shock vibration environments this new base-plated, potted module features Astrodyne’s proprietary Insulated Metal Substrate (IMS)

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25
Dec

Boston Power Gets US$290 Million from Local Chinese Governments

Boston Power Inc. has secured USD 290 million in local government financial support for the expansion of its two facilities in China. The company’s Liyang facility will receive a total investment of 160 million dollars, increasing its manufacturing capacity fivefold by 2016. The company’s Tianjin facility will grow its capacity to 4GW by 2017, and is expected to reach 8GWh

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25
Dec

Kyocera is building the world’s largest floating solar plant

Kyocera Corporation and Century Tokyo Leasing Corporation recently announced plans to build the world’s largest floating solar installation. The massive 13.4 megawatt plant will be located in the Chiba Prefecture in Japan and will provide enough power for 4,700 homes once it is up and running. The announcement follows the recent completion of the current largest floating solar plant, which

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25
Dec

The UK’s largest solar farm just switched online for the first time

25
Dec

The US could power itself with solar 100-times over

There’s a lot of debate about whether or not solar power could feasibly power the entire country. A new report by Environment America and a breakdown by Treehugger’s Micheal Graham Richard is putting the final nail in the naysayers coffin. According to the information, the United States could easily power itself one hundred times over on solar energy in the

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25
Dec

Is Europe Leaving Electric Vehicle Range Anxiety Behind?

Range anxiety – the fear an electrical vehicle will run out of power before it can reach a charging station – may become a thing of the past in several European countries. EV drivers will soon be able to power up through the ELECTRIC project, a corridor of fast charger stations along highways connecting Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden

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25
Dec

SunEdison Secures $175 Million Development Fund

Global solar technology manufacturing company and developer SunEdison has announced that it will benefit from a $175 million solar energy development fund, funded by a unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and TerraForm Power. According to the press release, JPM Capital Corporation will invest up to $75 million into the solar energy development fund, while TerraForm Power will invest $100

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25
Dec

New Partnership Enables Users To Give Carbon Offsets As A Gift

Rather than giving gifts of stuff this holiday season, why not give the gift of a cleaner climate? Oroeco is a California-based startup that allows users to track and share their carbon footprint, and they have partnered with Impact Carbon to help you give meaningful gifts for the holiday, relieve climate pressure AND help those in need. In communities throughout

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25
Dec

Alpha Ventus Wind Farm Tops Forecasts

In every endeavor, there has to be a first: The first person in space, the first man on the moon, the first to stand atop the highest mountain in the world. For Germany’s offshore wind industry, it was the pioneering Alpha Ventus installation off the coast of Borkum that waded first into the water. Now, nearly five years after the

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25
Dec

China Puts Billions Into Electric Cars & EV Charging Stations

China has no time to waste in mitigating air and water pollution, nor doing its part to cut global warming emissions. To help address these issues, China came up with a significant plan to adopt 5 million electric cars. The issue now is how to supply enough charging stations to fuel the cars. China’s current electric vehicle (EV) owners are

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