Use flashlights, headlamps, battery-operated lanterns or glow sticks rather than candles or other flammable lighting sources.

Some forecasters are saying that the wicked weather that is headed into Michigan on Sunday is a wind storm known as a “bomb cyclone” and it threatens to rip up trees and knock out power across the state.

While China’s PV policy announcement dominated the headlines in Q2 2018, there were a lot of other significant happenings in the world of solar, not least the EU’s 32% renewable energy targets, rumors of U.S. tariffs on inverters, PV records in Germany, and unexpected new partnerships. Read on to discover the highlights from April to June.

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“We didn’t just focus on the person who wants to save on an electric bill but focused on emergency responders and state government, but in an affordable manner,” Brennan says. “To do this, we basically built a 20-kW inverter and throttled it down. We don’t have heating issues because we are not taxing the system.”

The result is the same: Both Cushman, who cofounded a battery startup called IFBattery in 2016, and Cronin say their tricked-out flow batteries could be small and light enough for use in electric vehicles. Both also say the electrolyte can be recycled in a process Cushman likens to recycling cans.

Whether you’re driving to camp or working on dinner, the fridge keeps food and drink accessible (Credit: Campervan Co/Campers Scotland)

On a recent weekday, a handful of friends were sitting at the rectangular bar, chatting and listening to the Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers version of “Islands in the Stream” on the jukebox.

Sol-Ark is a new inverter on the block (or grid, I suppose). It is the brainchild of U.S. veterans looking to engineer a solution to help families be less dependent on the grid in an affordable way. They wanted to take the autonomy and top end abilities of the off-grid inverter without losing continuous power efficiency. To do this, Sol-Ark beefed up its hardware to minimize conversion losses. The result: Sol-Ark can deliver 96.5 percent efficiency in on-grid and 93 percent in off-grid and time of use scenarios with minimal conversion losses. On average, Sol-Ark needs 10 to 15 percent fewer solar panels and 5 to 30 percent less storage. That is serious savings.

The electric-powered induction cooktop is designed to be a fast, simple and propane-free way of cooking (Credit: Campervan Co/Campers Scotland)

Located about 50 miles off the coast of Venezuela, Bonaire is a Dutch “special municipality” with a population of close to 19,000, a land mass of 111 square miles, and a tourist trade that brings in over 70,000 tourists every year. The government of the island became a part of the Netherlands in 2010.

Transphorm employs a cascode configuration with a depletion mode GaN (Fig. 8). This provides the ruggedness of a silicon gate, coupled with the improved voltage-blocking characteristics of a high-voltage GaN. There are no special requirements for the gate driver since the gate is connected to a standard silicon gate rated at ±20 V with a threshold around 2 V.