When Thomas Edison developed the first practical incandescent lamp in the 1880s, the merits of alternating current (AC) electric power and direct current (DC) power distribution were debated. It was ...

The Biden Administration’s Executive Order 14057 establishes an ambitious plan to make all federal facilities net zero by 2045. New York City Local Law 97 establishes strict emission limits for ...

Following my last post about the problems of using DC power distribution in today’s data centers, I contacted Neil Rasmussen, chief technology officer at American Power Conversion. While others have ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "European DC Power Distribution Market, Forecast to 2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. With the rising penetration of energy-consuming ...

Darnell Group's Jeff Shepard reports from Tokyo on he first-annual DC Building Power Japan (DCBPJ) conference, covers, homes, office buildings, homes, and data centers. The first-annual DC Building ...

West Kingston, R.I. – American Power Conversion Corp. here has launched a power plant and Valere Power Inc. (Richardson, Texas) has introduced a power plant system that each extends the bar for system ...

As vendors continue to pack more servers into a smaller footprint, keeping a lid on power requirements — and keeping server racks cool — has become a huge challenge. And the lowly AC power supply ...

Anyone who is familiar with the early history of the utility industry in the U.S. knows that a battle raged over whether the electric grid should be Direct Current ...

Part 2 provides an analysis of the factors that affect energy savings. Various types of DC power distribution are examined as alternatives to AC distribution for data centers and network rooms. A ...

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has launched a newly branded lineup, D-SMiree ─ Diamond-Smart Medium Voltage Direct Current Distribution Network System for Innovative Reliable Economical Ecology ─ for ...

INTELEC 2014’s 400 Vdc demonstration included all the components necessary for a fully functioning 400 Vdc deployment for data center environments, including power supplies and conversion systems, ...