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- Alert) low-voltage products, including motor controls, pilot devices and communication devices.  Siemens’ Low and Medium Voltages help clients increase energy efficiency and improve productivity. With these products, clients can avoid expensive power interruptions, equipment breakdowns and start-up costs.

The solutions are widely used in an airports, hospitals, data centers, food processing facilities and shopping centers,

Applied Nanotech Holdings has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant, worth $999,990, from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop ultra-lightweight hydrogen fuel tanks using carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforcement. The two-year grant aims to significantly improve the mechanical properties of the carbon fiber/epoxy material used to construct hydrogen fuel tanks with CNT reinforcement. The goal is to reduce the weight of the tanks by 20 percent or more, in order to cut the cost of hydrogen fuel tanks and increase the vehicles’ fuel efficiency.

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), which can be used to create digital displays in television screens, computer monitors and mobile phones, earned revenue of more than $1.69 billion in 2011, according to a report just released by Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert). In OLEDS, a film made of an organic compound emits light in response to an electric current. OLED displays can use either passive-matrix (PMOLED) or active-matrix (AMOLED) addressing schemes. AMOLEDs require a thin-film transistor backplane to switch each individual pixel on or off, but allow for higher resolution and larger display sizes.

The report contends that OLEDs have an advantage over liquid crystal displays (LCD) because their OLED displays are thinner, lightweight and printable.That’s all for this week, but green energy never stops. Check back next week for more!

Want to learn more about the latest in communications and technology? Then be sure to attend ITEXPO West 2012, taking place Oct. 2-5, in Austin, TX. Stay in touch with everything happening at ITEXPO (News - Alert). Follow us on Twitter.

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- Alert) didn’t make it into the top echelon of the Green Quadrant, the telecom recently announced that the U.S. Green Building Council has certified the company’s green retail store design. The pre-certification is being provided in the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) LEED Volume Program, making Verizon only the eighth retailer and first wireless company to achieve the feat.

Meanwhile, VelaTel Global Communications, a wireless broadband telecommunications provider with offices in San Diego and Beijing, announced on July 25 that its subsidiary, VN Technologies, has completed an initial round of trials of its hydrogen fuel cell technology for China’s two leading telephone companies. Tests were conducted at a site in Harbin for China Mobile, and at sites in Guangzhou and Beijing for China Telecom (News

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- Alert) Inc. is designing renewable energy into the core of its global commerce platform—incorporating 30 Bloom Energy servers into the architecture of its flagship data center. Renewable energy will be the facility’s primary power source; the electric utility grid will be used only as backup. Partnering with Sunnyvale, California-based Bloom Energy, eBay is building the country's largest non-utility fuel cell installation. The new six-megawatt (MW) Bloom installation is being designed and engineered into eBay’s expanded data center facility in Utah, and will be fully functional by mid-2013. ...
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- Alert), Apple plans on using coal-free electricity in all three of its data centers, with the Maiden facility coal-free by the end of 2012. “While we’ll produce 60 percent of the power used by our Maiden data center onsite, we’ll meet the remaining 40 percent of our energy needs by directly purchasing clean, renewable energy generated by local and regional sources,” Apple stated. The company will partner with Raleigh-based NC GreenPower — an independent, nonprofit organization created by the North Carolina Utilities Commission — to increase local renewable energy production throughout North Carolina.

The U.S. Department of Energy is doing its best to help save the planet by unveiling all-new standards for both clothes washers and dishwashers. Released on May 16, the new requirements will enable consumers to keep around $10 billion worth of cash that will no longer have to be forked over to pay energy and water bills. Officially going into effect in 2012 for dishwashers and in 2014 for clothes washers, the new front-loading washing machine models will reduce energy used by 15 percent and water by approximately 35 percent. In addition, top-loaders will need one-third less energy and 19 percent less water to perform successfully. A couple of months ago, a new report revealed that if appliance standards were put in place within commercial and residential sectors, it could ultimately enable consumers to save $1 trillion by 2035.

Delta Products Corporation, a Delta Group company headquartered in Taipei and in Fremont, California, has been awarded a $1.9-million grant by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the development and demonstration of a residential electric vehicle charging system, with smart grid communication capabilities. Delta will collaborate with its partners, The Detroit Edison Company, Mercedes Benz R&D North America, and kVA, to develop a working demonstration system. The goals of the three-year initiative are twofold: To have utilities reduce infrastructure costs and manage load during peak hours, and benefit consumers by giving them the opportunity to take advantage of off-peak electricity rates for residential plug-in electric vehicle (EV) charging. All of this at a substantially lower cost than currently is available on the U.S. market: Delta touts a system price that is 50 percent lower than the cost of competing technologies. The DOE grant is part of $7 million in research and development funding that will help improve the development and design of electric vehicle charging equipment.

Finally, HCL Technologies (News - Alert), Ltd., and HCL America, Inc., are doing their part to help with unemployment. The companies are collaborating on a “Glocal” Center of Excellence known as the Michigan Technology Development Center (MTDC).  The initiative will create 300 technology positions for the area during the first phase of the center development. The companies plan to use MTDC as a training facility for advanced IT process and tools. Local colleges and universities will have access to the MTDC to explore technology advancement and to obtain new skills—giving students the first-hand IT experience they need to obtain a related job. Governor Rick Snyder (News - Alert) is pleased with HCL’s expansion and thinks many companies should follow suit. The new center will be located in Jackson, Michigan, at the Commonwealth Commerce Center.

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In global green technology news this week, GM and its partner SAIC (News - Alert) have begun testing cars in a climate wind tunnel at the Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center in Shanghai; a hybrid superconducting electrical cable has passed its first trials in Russia; a Canadian-American deal has led to the development of “fully loaded” electric bikes— available with telematics, global positioning systems (GPS) and wireless services; and baseball’s Seattle Mariners (just back from Japan) will power through opening day at Safeco Stadium with new solar panels from Panasonic (News - Alert).

“Weather” or not—we count on our cars to negotiate even the worst road conditions safely and reliably. To help meet consumer expectations, on March 27, the world’s first climate wind tunnel operated by a Chinese joint venture automotive partner began testing vehicles at the Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC) in Shanghai. The PATAC is operated as a 50-50 engineering and design joint venture between the Detroit-based General Motors (News - Alert) Company and SAIC Motor Corporation Limited, one of the “Big Four” Chinese automakers.

The facility, which represents an investment of nearly $28.5 million, features advanced technologies and equipment—including a test cabin, wind turbines, cooling/heating systems, chassis dynamometers, a sunshine/rain/snow simulation system, a data acquisition system, and a sophisticated road simulation rotating hub system. Breaking seasonal and regional restrictions, the tunnel can replace around 80 percent of climate-related road tests.

Scientists in Russia have successfully tested a hybrid superconducting electrical cable, according to reports from the news agency Pravda. The use of superconductors for cables to meet energy needs could potentially provide solar energy to much of the world—but developers must be able to meet a challenge: Cables made from superconductors have to be cooled constantly. In their experiment, Russian scientists built a10-meter cable with a cavity for the transportation of liquid hydrogen.

It was tested in Voronezh. Pravda also reported that magnesium diboride was cooled and was acting as a superconductor. The cable transmits 25 megawatts (MW) of power; however, scientists say that it could someday carry as much as 10 gigawatts (GW) across long distances. At some point, solar energy could be collected in the Sahara Dessert and transmitted elsewhere. In addition, Pravda said that, if the technology were developed, one or two plants could supply sufficient energy for all of Russia.

Until recently, bicycle riders only had to master a few gears on one handlebar and a bell on the other before they could push back the kickstand and ride into the wind. Those simple two-wheelers still are available, but for the “techmeisters” among us – or the directionally impaired – there are now electric bikes that offer dashboards packed with the same telematics, global positioning systems (GPS) and wireless services that a consumer would enjoy in a fully loaded car.  

Vancouver, Canada-based Saturna Green Systems Inc., an automotive wireless technology developer and GPS location-based services (LBS) provider, recently announced an agreement with New York City-based Evolve motorcycles to incorporate Saturna’s wireless communications platform into Evolve’s U.S.-made electric bicycles. The platform will be available on certain evolve 2013 models, representing the first time that LBS and telematics devices have been installed up-front on an electric scooter OEM’s assembly line.

There will be electricity “in the air” at the Seattle Mariners’ stadium, Safeco Field, on opening day, April 13. It takes 300,000 volts to light up the 12-year-old ballpark and a good part of that power will be supplied by solar energy. Panasonic Enterprise Solutions Company, based in Secaucus, N.J., is providing 168 HIT Double solar panels—so-called because they absorb and generate electricity from both their top and bottom sides. The project is part of the baseball team’s ongoing commitment to sustainability, which includes electric vehicle charging stations, 535 metal halide lights, and other eco-friendly measures.

The InSpec Group—an engineering and construction firm with offices in Japan and America—has designed huge solar arrays to be mounted on the elevator canopy of the parking garage; as well as on the roof of the Safeco Field Skybridge, which spans Edgar Martinez Drive in Seattle. (A bit of trivia: The drive is named for the retired Mariners third baseman and designated hitter.)  The 32.76-kilowatt system will generate approximately 40,000-kilowatt hours of power annually, which will feed into the Safeco Field distribution grid. Fans will be able to track the amount of power generated by the solar panels on monitors inside the ballpark. 

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