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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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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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China Unveils Set-Top Box Standard

Friday, March 18, 2011

China has just published its first Set-Top Box (STB) efficiency standard, GB 25957-2010. While other government agencies (i.e., ENERGY STAR, EC Code of Conduct) have already gone through multiple generations of STB efficiency programs (settling on a methodology that limits the total typical energy consumption (TEC) in kWh that a complex STB consumes annually), China [...]

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Mortenson Construction has 10 openings for renewable energy EEs

Friday, March 4, 2011

On the first leg of a trip home from the Midwest two weeks back, I sat next to Elling Olson, Business Development Director for Mortenson Construction. We got to chatting and it turns out that one of Mortenson’s specialties is the construction of sustainable energy buildings, mainly for commercial and governmental clients. This is where [...]

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ENERGY STAR Publishes Test Method for Uninterruptible Power Supplies

Friday, February 18, 2011

ENERGY STAR recently released the final draft of its test method for Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPSs). UPSs are primarily used to protect computer systems and servers from disruption and data loss when the main power fails. The Test Method serves as the basis for determining product compliance with the future specification.

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ENERGY STAR Finalizes Latest Set-top Box Spec

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

At the end of 2010, in my blog A New Lullaby for Set-top Boxes?, I wrote about how ENERGY STAR’s new spec for set-top boxes was in development. One specific focus was describing the new “Deep Sleep” feature — a power state within sleep mode characterized by reduced power consumption and increased time required to [...]

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A New Lullaby for Set-top Boxes?

Monday, January 3, 2011

The US EPA got closer to finalizing the next ENERGY STAR set-top box (STB) efficiency program requirements with an addition that will allow the devices to go into a much lower power down mode than previous versions. As covered in previous blogs, reigning in STB power consumption has proven to be a little trickier than [...]

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