SAN FRANCISCO –The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with Homestake Mining Company of California requiring the company to assess contamination and address safety hazards at four abandoned uranium mines in ...
The U.S. Department of Energy’s CALiPER program has released a Snapshot Report on LED outdoor area lighting. Based on LED Lighting Facts® data through the second quarter of 2014, the report focuses on outdoor area/roadway ...
Agnitron Technology Inc of Eden Prairie, MN, USA is scheduled to ship its latest 1500°C+ reactor upgrade for the Veeco metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) D-series Legacy System platform. The single 2”- or ...
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SoloPower Systems of Portland, OR, USA, which designs, manufactures and deploys copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) flexible thin-film solar technology, is collaborating with the US Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC) - an ...
Tags: SoloPower, PVMC, CIGS, Electrical, Electronics
Wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor materials such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) are best positioned to address emerging power electronics performance needs in electric vehicles (EVs), with SiC displacing silicon as early ...
Tags: Power electronics GaN SiC, Electric Vehicle, Electrical, Electronics
SAN FRANCISCO –Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized its rule to reduce harmful pollution from Navajo Generating Station (NGS), the culmination of five years of efforts between the federal government and tribes, ...
Tags: EPA, Pollution, Office Supplies, Certification
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has set a record for cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) research cell conversion efficiency of 21.0%, as certified at the Technology and Applications Center (TAC) PV Lab of Newport Corp. The cell ...
PhotonStar LED Group has conditionally raised £2.2 million through the sale of shares. 31,400,000 new ordinary shares of 1p each have been placed – a method of selling new shares in the primary market – at a price of 7p ...
Intel hopes to take hardware performance to the next level with its latest Xeon Phi supercomputing chip, which packs an array of new hardware technologies that could eventually find their way to laptops and desktops. The new Xeon Phi ...
Researchers at the University of Arkansas have designed integrated circuits that can survive at temperatures greater than 350°C (about 660°F). Funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), their work could improve the ...
Tags: SiC Power electronics HEV, Electrical, Electronics, circuits
China and the United States signed a package of agreements on energy efficiency projects here on Wednesday, a move expected to deepen energy cooperation between the world's two largest economies. The deals include a program of distributed ...
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Magna International in association with the Ford Motor Company has unveiled the new multi-material lightweight vehicle (MMLV) concept, which reduces the vehicle weight. Developed under a research and development project led by Magna and ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Vehicle
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced the OSQ Area LED luminaire, which is claimed to be the first LED area luminaire specifically designed and priced to replace the nearly 54 million outdated ...
Tags: Cree, LED lighting, fixtures
The Jurassic shales of southern England's Weald basin could hold between 2.2 billion and 8.5 billion barrels of oil resource but no gas, the UK government said Friday in a new report. The Department of Energy and Climate Change also ...
Tags: Shale Oil, offshore production
The outcome of proposals for 215 ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) farms in the UK, with capacities in excess of 5MW, are now being re-evaluated, according to Solarbuzz. This re-evaluation follows new, and unexpected, proposals from ...