On 5 February 2014, the European Commission published a Decision (1) on the safety requirements for consumer laser products, pursuant to Directive 2001/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on general product safety.
Safety of Laser Products
A large number of laser products are now broadly ava
Google is synonymous with search, and due to its overwhelming dominance, nearly everything a search engine optimising professional does is to ensure we comply with best practice, and avoid the penalties.
One such best practice is the use of structured markup – using tags to define the context of content â
The lithium-ion battery business is growing rapidly to many tens of billions of dollars yearly, thanks to billions of dollars continuing to be invested in the industry. Their use is widening well beyond e-readers, tablets, laptops and mobile phones with vehicles being particularly important for the future; mainly hy
As developments on organic photovoltaics continue worldwide, the amount of attention paid to this 3rd generation photovoltaic technology remains unwaning, with many important announcements from all over the world keeping the levels of interest high. This week, Heliatek in Germany announced a new world record in
Building on President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to continue U.S. leadership in clean energy innovation, the Energy Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded $17 million in Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) projects to help small businesses in 13 states develop pr
Altera, a leading provider of programmable logic devices, has joined the System Management Interface Forum (SMIF) and has become a PMBus adopter to support the company’s Enpirion® power management solutions and products. By adopting the PMBus power-compliant industry standards, Altera joins other member companies wh
Electronic components distributor Digi-Key, an industry leader in electronic component selection, availability and delivery, announced a global distribution agreement with XP Power, a power-solution leader offering the widest range of power products available from one source.
XP Power is one of the world's le
Mercom Capital Group, a global clean energy communications and consulting firm, released its report on funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for the smart grid sector for 2013.
Venture capital (VC) funding into smart grid technology companies came in at $405 million in 63 deals in 2013, com
The March ESF Roundup features the New York Battery and Energy Storage (NY-BEST) "Capture the Energy" Conference, March 12-13 (details below).
New Policies Address the Balance of Water and Energy in the U.S.
The water-energy nexus has major implications for the energy sector and national econom
