Utility Agrees to Clean Up Coal Plants
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Major Plug-In Hybrid Incentive Program Initiated By Austin, Texas
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Forest Service to Try Out Certification
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US Greenhouse Gases to Dwarf World Savings
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FuelCell Energy Q1 Results Web Broadcast: March 8
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Power Integrations Named Winner of Efficiency Challenge 2004
Power Integrations, Inc. (Nasdaq:POWI) has been named Grand Champion in its category of Efficiency Challenge 2004, an international design competition for power supply efficiency. The contest, sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Energy Commission, showcases highly efficient power supply technologies for consumer electronics. The winning design, an energy-efficient adapter for a cordless telephone, was judged the top entry in the “market ready” category of the competition, in which practical factors such as cost and packaging were considered in addition to energy efficiency. The design uses Power Integrations’ LinkSwitch family of integrated circuits, which are ideally suited for use in low-power applications such as cordless phones, cell phones, consumer appliances and many industrial applications. The winning design will enable manufacturers to comply with the recently launched ENERGY STAR specification for cordless phones, as well as the mandatory standards recently placed on external adapters by the California Energy Commission. Said Balu Balakrishnan, president and CEO of Power Integrations, “It is particularly significant that the winning design is for the cordless phone market, where inefficient linear transformers are still the predominant power supply technology. This award validates the fact that a cost-effective, efficient alternative to these ‘energy vampires’ is […]
India Allows Transgenic Cotton in Northern States
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Environmentalists Fear Brazil's Lifting of GMO Ban
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Big Apple Tests Solar Trash Can
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Capex Studies US$19 billion Wind-to-Hydrogen Plans
Argentine energy company Capex aims to start pre-feasibility studies in two months on a US$19bn project to generate 16,000MW of wind power to produce 13.3 million cubic meters a year of hydrogen, company development and new business director Jorge Llera told BNamericas. Hydrogen is a clean burning fuel that could be mixed with natural gas for power generation, used in domestic appliances and also as a vehicular fuel. With a number of large cities in the Southern Cone with air pollution issues, Capex sees the possibility of a regional market for the fuel, Llera said. Project location depends on further studies, but the area under consideration is around Pico Truncado in the northeast of Santa Cruz province, where wind speeds are some eight meters a second with a capacity factor of 45%. The US$19bn figure covers the wind turbines, hydrogen production infrastructure and delivery to port. Investment on such a scale is beyond the reach of Capex alone, and so it would associate with other companies already involved in hydrogen technology, such as automobile manufacturers, should the project proceed to further studies, Llera said. The project has the potential to generate some 40 million tonnes of carbon credits a year, […]
