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The Smart Grid needs smart power
(13/07/2011)

According to Frank Paniagua, Jr., founder and CEO of Green Plug, digital control of power supplies is not only inevitable, it’s happening, now. That’s good news for the Smart Grid and everything it touches. A line in the sand has been drawn, Paniagua says, citing a Darnell Group report that by 2013, “30 percent of the world’s CE power adapters will be digitally controlled.” “It’s clear from everything we see and hear that devices need ... [more]

Standardization of mobile phone chargers is a major step toward environmentally responsible consumer electronics manufacturing
(13/03/2009)

In the past decade alone, the consumer electronics industry has developed and sold billions of devices that require AC to DC power supplies. Because every new CE device comes with a charger, some 3.2 billion power supplies were designed and shipped in 2008 alone. And because every electronic product has a unique voltage and current requirement, many incompatible power supplies must be designed, produced, packaged, shipped and discarded unnecess... [more]

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