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Category Archives: Power Sources

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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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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Staying On Top of External Power Supply Efficiency Regulations

Thursday, October 11, 2012

As the monetary and environmental costs of power continue to rise, consumers, governments, and corporations alike are increasingly placing a microscope on areas of energy waste.  External power supplies have been in the cross hairs for many years now, and rightly so.  In the early 90’s, it was estimated that there were more than one [...]

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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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Though Apple be small she is fierce

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

By Paul O’Shea Okay, I took some liberty with Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream – but it still holds true that for a company with only 47,000 employees (compare that to 220,000 for Samsung) it has mindboggling impact on the market. It has financial impact like few others – ahead of the iPhone 5 announcement [...]

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