Renewable Energy

February 2016

IAR Systems to hold seminars on a smarter world at embedded world 2016

IAR Systems, a leading vendor of development tools for embedded systems, invites visitors of embedded world 2016 to a series of seminars focused on building a smarter world, while ensuring deliverability and efficient workflows. The seminars take place in the IAR Connect™ booth 4-102 on Tuesday, February

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02/19/2016

SOFC system

Boeing delivers reversible solid-oxide fuel cell energy storage system to the U.S. Navy for testing

After 16 months of development, Boeing has delivered a fuel cell energy storage system to the U.S. Navy for testing. The cell is being tested to determine its ability to support the energy needs of military and commercial customers. The system is the first of its kind using a technology called a “reversible so

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02/16/2016

Heliafilm solar film

Heliatek sets record organic photovoltaic efficiency of 13.2%

Heliatek R&D teams reached a record conversion efficiency of 13.2% for an OPV multi-junction cell, setting a new world record for the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity using organic photovoltaic cells. The measurement was independently confirmed by Fraunhofer CSP. Thanks to the excellent

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02/08/2016

American PPPL collaborators congratulate team at Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Reactor

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), who collaborate with the Max Planck Institute in Germany on the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) fusion energy reactor, congratulated the team for starting its scientific investigations on fusion energy by producing its first hydrogen pl

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02/04/2016

Tesla Powerwall

New version of Tesla Powerwall is coming in summer 2016

Gavin Bade

The news of a new version of the Tesla Powerwall came in the form of a video posted Feb. 1 showing CEO Elon Musk answering questions from Tesla vehicle owners at a private event in Paris, France on Jan. 29. “We are coming out with the version 2 of the Powerwall probably around July or August of this year

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02/03/2016

Rectiverter

Eltek unveils the Rectiverter bi-directional AC/DC power system

Eltek is today announcing the launch of the Rectiverter, a power conversion module combining the functions of a rectifier, an inverter and a "static transfer switch" in one. The Rectiverter is a 3-port bidirectional converter that simplifies solutions providing both AC and DC power to critical loads in

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02/03/2016

Mouser Electronics is again teaming up with celebrity engineer Grant Imahara

Mouser and Imahara launch 2016 power series to advance innovation

Mouser Electronics is teaming up with celebrity engineer Grant Imahara along with scientists, visionaries and educators to announce an exciting new series on Power and the Future Supercapacitor to kick off the 2016 Empowering Innovation Together program. This new series captures insights from some of the most in

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02/01/2016