Power cuts: how frequent are grid disruptions?

Are US power cuts becoming more frequent data by disruption cause and duration

…Finally it illustrates the need for smart grid and power electronics technologies. Our cleaned-up interpretation of the raw data, some analytics, averages, and charts are available in the data-file. The…

Silicon carbide: production costs?

Silicon carbide production costs

This data-file captures silicon carbide production costs: spanning from materials grade SiC ($1,500/ton marginal cost, 5 tons/ton CO2 intensity) through to SiC wafers that are used in the electronics industry…

Data-centers: electricity use and demand shifting?

Data-centers shift electricity demand

electronics. Hyperscale data centers tend to have >5000 servers, >50MW power demand and >10,000 square feet areas. There might be around 600 globally, out of 6,000 total data-centers globally, as…

Renewables: how much time to connect to the grid?

time to connect to the grid

…do think the terms of trade are shifting in favor of grid operators, power electronics, transmission infrastructure, developers that can use their own power and consumers that can demand shift….

Hillcrest: ZVS inverter breakthrough?

Hillcrest Technology Review

…with next-generation SiC semiconductor, which are creating an exciting jolt forwards in the power electronics behind practically all of the core areas of the energy transition (TSE research note here)….

Silicon carbide: faster switching?

Silicon carbide power electronics

Silicon carbide power electronics will jolt the energy transition forwards, displacing silicon, and improving the efficiency of most new energies by 1-10 pp. Hence we wonder if this disruptor will…

Polyurethanes: what upside in energy transition?

Polyurethanes

Polyurethanes are elastic polymers, used for insulation, electric vehicles, electronics and apparel. This $75bn pa market expands 3x by 2050. But could energy transition double historically challenging margins, by freeing…

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