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The power industry is ready to save the world

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

By Paul O’Shea Okay, maybe it’s not quite that amazing but the industry has already saved 50,000 TW/h over the last 20 years and will continue to save more. The plenary speaker at this year’s APEC show in Long Beach, CA was Dr.Jayant Baliga from NC State University and he talked about “The role of [...]

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A light-emitting materials industry analysis for AMOLEDs

Friday, March 1, 2013

By Paul O’Shea  Displaybank recently published a report on the active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) light-emitting materials industry. It analyzes equipment, supply chain, and development trends of AMOLED panel makers. The report also analyzes the market size of AMOLED charge layer materials and light-emitting materials, as well as the competition among the materials. Based on this, [...]

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PSMA adds caps/ultracaps session for APEC 2013

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

By Paul O’Shea   The Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) Capacitors Committee is sponsoring an Industry Session at APEC 2013 titled “Advances in Capacitors and Ultracapacitors for Power Electronics.” The session will take place Wednesday, March 20th, 2013, from 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach California, and [...]

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ANSI launches Energy Efficiency Standardization Coordination Collaborative

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

 Group seeks participants to develop the energy efficiency standardization roadmap By Paul O’Shea With its potential to fuel job creation, bolster energy independence, and fuel the U.S. economy, energy efficiency has been attracting a lot of well-deserved attention in recent years. However, realizing its full promise will require a comprehensive national approach, as well as [...]

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Solar power continues to show strong growth

Thursday, November 8, 2012

A new report from GBI Research “Solar Photovoltaic Power Market to 2020” gives an in-depth analysis of solar PV power markets in four regions, Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East and Africa covering the sixteen major countries. It covers the cumulative installed capacity and power generation of solar photovoltaic (PV), between 2005 and [...]

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Now you can make energy harvesting to go

Sunday, October 7, 2012

<i>by Paul O’Shea</i> It was really just a matter of time and now it has happened – three companies  (Energy Micro, Linear Technology, and Wurth Elektronik) got together to develop a product to make it easy to develop an energy harvesting application for just about anything you want (such as solar, electromagnetic, piezo-electric or thermal [...]

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Power on the edge from Darnell Power Forum

Monday, September 24, 2012

The Forum was kicked off with Bob White teaching/discussing in a 4-hour session, about “Putting GaN to work in your power supply” – where attendees learned that engineers like themselves had to learn new techniques to put GaN devices in their designs. Find more information at: http://dpf.darnell.com/seminar.php The first plenary session was a last minute [...]

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