Editor’s Note: The following column By Mike Feinstein, vice president, sales and marketing, Digital Lumens, is part of Modern’s Other Voices column. The series features ideas, opinions and insights from end users, analysts, ...
April 22, 2013 - ABB announced it is acquiring Power-One Inc.—a provider of renewable energy and of energy-efficient power conversion and management solutions—for $6.35 per share in cash or $1028 million equity value. The ...
Tags: ABB, Consumer Electronics, Solar PV
ABB has agreed to acquire US-based power firm Power-One in a deal valued at $1,028m. Swiss firm ABB is bidding to strengthen its position as a supplier of solar inverters used in photovoltaic (PV) solar energy systems. "Solar PV is ...
Tags: Solar Energy, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
To help its power-generation customers meet particulate emissions with greater filtration efficiency, GE has introduced a new bi-component felt media for construction of fabric filters used in coal-fired boiler baghouses. GE says that the ...
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Solar demand from the emerging Asia Pacific and Central Asia (EAPCA) region is forecast to exceed 3GW by 2017, according to Solarbuzz. Compared to 723MW of solar demand in 2012, this represents a strong compound annual growth rate of 28%. ...
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Photovoltaic inverter design is now seen as the crucial element in solar power development, writes James Turner, and he discusses some of the challenges that can shape PV inverter design. Over the last few years the photovoltaic (PV) ...
At the first international sustainable energy conference hosted by the “Regions of Climate Action”(R20), Philips and R20 emphasized the benefits of rapid adoption of intelligent and energy-efficient LED lighting infrastructure ...
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services, has acquired the 50MWAC Macho Springs ...
Tags: First Solar, photovoltaic modules, CdTe, solar project
China's dependence on foreign crude oil and refined oil products is set to increase, but the government has placed a cap at 61% of total requirements for the end of the current five-year economic plan in 2015, according to a new government ...
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The Solar Trade Association (STA) has welcomed the publication of the UK Renewables Roadmap. The Roadmap identifies the key renewable energy technologies that will enable the UK to fulfil its 2020 15% renewable energy target. Generation ...
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BP on Wednesday raised its estimate of global energy demand in 2030 and predicted that shale natural gas, tight oil and biofuels will play an increasingly important role in meeting the world's energy needs. World energy demand will ...
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(China Glass Network)Villa Ocampo in Argentina is emerging as a center for alternative energy as a result of a new round of the Citizen Assemblies held in late 2012. SolarAl Usina's program for manufacturing solar water heaters is ...
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Kraft Foods Group has unveiled plans to launch more than 40 new products, marking the first swathe of NPD since the group separated from Mondelez International and became an independent publicly traded group last October. The company ...
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Coal's share of the energy mix will continue to rise, with global consumption projected to reach 4.32 billion tons of oil equivalent (toe) by 2017 despite the fossil fuel's slowing growth rate, according to the International Energy Agency ...
Tags: International Energy Agency, global coal demand, gas and coal prices
Gulf News the UAE Russian Federation peaceful nuclear energy agreement, which was signed on December 17th Monday at the foreign ministry is deemed a legal framework for supplying nuclear fuel services to the UAE and in line with the ...
Tags: nuclear energy, nuclear fuel services, atomic power, gas