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 ...

At the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair—held in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the American continent—as U.S. President Cleveland pressed a button, 250,000 light bulbs lit up ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first-annual DC Building Power Japan (DCBPJ) conference held last month in Tokyo included numerous important “firsts,” such as the first comprehensive review of dc power architectures from homes ...

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 ...

Factory-engineered platform simplifies specification and deployment for DC power storage systems in data centers, utilities, oil & gas, and industrial infrastructure LONGMONT, Colo., March 24, 2026 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

High-voltage fixed-ratio bus converters have been around for some time, adequately serving the needs of intermediate bus architectures (IBAs). But the emergence of a variety of new high-voltage, ...