After two tough years of stagnation, in 2014 the power semiconductor device market returned to growth, rising by 8.4% to $11.5bn, according to the report 'Status of the Power Electronics Industry (February 2015 edition)' from Yole ...
Under New York State Governor Cuomo's NY-Sun initiative, Signal Transformer, a division of Bel Fuse Inc., has completed the installation of a solar photovoltaic (PV) system at its Inwood, NY facility. Signal Transformer manufactures ...
Sensus, a provider of clean technology solutions, received the "Best Smart Grid Product or Solution" award at the fourth annual Rural Smart Grid Summit (RSGS). Over 100 rural electric cooperative executives voted to select Sensus for this ...
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Greentech Media has been covering the ins and outs of how utilities and smart grid technology providers are making use of the nation’s massive rollout of smart meters for years now. As the Edison Foundation reported last month, that ...
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Florida Power & Light (FPL) Company reports that it has established one of the United States’ first full-scale smart grids, networking 4.5 million smart meters and more than 10,000 other devices in its 35 country service area. FPL ...
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June 1, 2013 - Georgian College students and faculty will initiate research on power use, quality, consumption and costing for electric vehicles (EVs) thanks to a “first-of-its-kind” charging station supported by PowerStream and ...
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Siemens' Smart Grid division has announced a global strategic cooperation in big data with Teradata, through which it will further optimise its solutions' portfolio to provide energy utilities with more transparency on the status and ...
Power distribution and transmission executives are faced with a range of new technologies at the moment that need to be integrated and understood, says Michael Ropp, President and Principal Engineer, Northern Plains Power Technologies. ...
Tags: Power distribution, Power transmission, Modeling tools
South Korea’s LS Industrial Systems has won a $67-million deal to build power distribution control centres for the Iraqi government. Under the deal with the Ministry of Electricity, the company will build seven distribution ...
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Investment in smart grid improvements (such as smart metering, outage management and distribution management systems) by utilities companies in the US could have enabled Hurricane Sandy to be handled more effectively. Outages could have ...
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December 22, 2012 - Alstom Grid says it has completed its acquisition of ASAT Solutions Inc., a Calgary, Alta.-based based substation automation solutions provider. “This acquisition is a great opportunity for Alstom Grid to help ...
Tags: automation solutions, ASAT Solutions, ASAT business, smart grid
The latest World Bank's report calls governments for urgent measures to stop global warming. It recommends them to put more than US$ 1 trillion, which are now used as a subsidy for fossil fuel, for better use – in sustainable and ...
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Hawaii has seen an ever larger increase in solar electricity production from solar farms and residents. Hawaii electricity comes from its imports of diesel, low sulfur fuel oil (LSFO), and naphtha, but with government incentives, increased ...
A Delta Group company,Delta Products has been awarded a$1.9m grant from the US Department of Energy(DOE),as part of$7m in research and development funding that aims to improve the development and design of electric vehicle charging ...
Tags: Delta, Federal Grant, EV Charging
"It's time to get moving"on the smart meter roll-out,according to the Executive Vice President of US smart grid technology firm Silver Spring Networks,Eric Dresselhuys. The warning comes ahead of the UK's plans to install 53 million smart ...
Tags: smart meter, Silver Spring Networks, UK, US