1. Have You Made Your Plans for APEC 2014
   
2. You are Invited to Attend the PSMA Annual Meeting at APEC 2014
   
3. Meet Your Directors
   
4. About Our Members
   
5. Welcome to PSMA
   
6. Energy-Efficient Building Workshop: Invitation and Call for Participation
   
7. State of Clean Technology
   
8. Intelec 2014 Call for Papers
   
9. Solar Energy Stock Index Q4 2013
   
10. Solar Energy DealReader Q4 2013
    
11. EMS Stock Index Q4 2013
    
12. EMS DealReader Q4 2013
    
13. Events of Interest – Mark Your Calendar

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he Applied Power Electronics Conference, will convene March 16-20, 2014 at the Fort Worth Texas Convention Center, will provide:

• The best power electronics exposition.
• Professional development courses taught by world-class experts.
• Presentations of peer-reviewed technical papers covering a wide range of topics.
• Time to network and enjoy the company of fellow power electronics professionals in a beautiful setting.
  

Attendees at APEC 2014 will find several technical features that will enhance their APEC experience. Attendees with smart phones can now download an App that will provide them with information about conference sessions and speakers, schedules of all events and exhibitor directory. The App will enable attendees to put together their schedule to make optimum use of their time at the conference. Other technical enhancements at the Convention Center include:

• Hosted Cyber Cafes in the exhibit hall
• Digital signage outside session rooms to allow for updates and additional information about the sessions.

The APEC 2014 program offers attendees over 400 high-quality technical papers, a slate of Professional Education Seminars on Sunday and Monday and a series of 12 Industry Sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday where important and timely industry developments will be introduced. The ever-popular Micro-Mouse Contest will be held on Monday night after the opening evening exhibit. On Tuesday evening, after the exhibits close, everyone is invited to sit in on one of the engaging Rap Sessions that always generate a lot of dialog.

Attendees at APEC 2014 will have a special treat this year at the Wednesday evening Gala which will be held at AT&T Stadium, Home of the Dallas Cowboys! Attendees are invited wear their favorite team’s jersey as we celebrate on the home field of the Dallas Cowboys. For our international attendees where “football” is the game called “soccer” in the states, why not plan to bring your football jersey?

In addition to delicious food and live music, there will be the unique opportunity to play interactive field games and go behind-the-scenes to tour exclusive areas of the stadium. We will also be treated to a personal, live performance and meet & greet with the world-famous Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders!

Transportation will be provided from the Fort Worth Convention Center, beginning at 6:30pm. Buses will be available throughout the evening returning to the Convention Center. A ticket to this event is included with a full conference registration. Additional tickets are available for purchase through the registration site.

APEC 2014 promises to be the largest APEC event ever – exceeding last year’s record-breaking attendance. This year we are planning on 3,500 attendees and around 200 exhibitors.

If you haven’t already made plans to attend, don’t wait any longer. Come to Ft. Worth and be part of this exceptional event – truly The Premier Event in Applied Power Electronics™.

Provided by Greg Evans, APEC 2014 Publicity Chair

Members and guests are also invited to remain for the Board of Directors meeting that will immediately follow the Annual Meeting. Participation in these meetings will provide you with the opportunity to network with colleagues from other companies and to influence the direction of the PSMA and the power sources industry.

Another good way to get more out of your company membership in PSMA is to get involved with one of our active committees. The Alternative Energy, Capacitor, Energy Efficiency, Energy Harvesting, Industry-Education, Magnetics, Marketing, Nanotechnology, Packaging, and Transportation Power Electronics committees all plan to hold open meetings during the week of APEC 2014. In addition to those committees, the Technology Roadmap committee will have a meeting to kick off work on the 2015 roadmap report. The Semiconductor committee, which has been quiet in the past few years, will have an organization meeting during APEC to define their mission and to plan activities for the coming year. All are invited to participate or to just drop in any of these committee meetings to hear and provide input as the activities are being planned for the coming year.

The Alternate Energy Technical Committee is sponsoring a focused workshop “Power Electronics and Electrical Challenges for Engineering Energy-Efficient Buildings” the Saturday before APEC 2014 – March 15 at the Omni. Information on this workshop is available at http://www.psma.com/technical-forums/alternative-energy/workshop.

Be sure to visit us at the PSMA booth in the exhibition area during APEC. We look forward to a good turnout at the PSMA meetings and a very exciting week.

For the latest information on all of the activities planned during APEC 2014, visit us at www.psma.com.

our members of the PSMA Board of Directors are elected at the Annual Meeting held every year during the APEC conference. Each Director serves a three year term and is eligible to be reelected for one additional term.

In this issue we would like you to meet Carl Blake, who was elected to his second term at APEC 2012 and Eric Persson elected to his first term at APEC 2011.

Carl Blake • Board member WSTS and PSMA, Sr. Member IEEE, Marketing Consultant

Carl is currently the Chairman of the PSMA, a board member of WSTS, a senior member of the IEEE and head of his own consulting company, CBK that is consulting to Transphorm. Carl began his career as a Systems Design Engineer gaining practical experience in power supply, RF and logic design. During his career he progressed through many levels of engineering and management of power supply, RF systems and power semiconductors departments and business units prior to moving over to marketing.

In 2008 Carl moved to Transphorm to focus upon the emerging market of GaN devices for power electronics. Carl has been a frequent presenter at APEC and other conferences throughout the world in the field of power electronics; including being invited twice as Plenary Speaker at APEC 1994 and 2009. He has authored more than 40 articles and presentations about new power devices during the past 20 years.

Being an active participant in the Power Sources Manufacturers Association since the early 90’s was a rewarding effort before becoming a member of the Board of Directors as well as previous Co-Chair of the Technology Roadmap committee. He was elected to the PSMA Board of Directors in 2009 and 2012 and is currently the 2012 to 2014 Chairman of the PSMA BOD. Carl now splits his time between consulting and retirement, enjoying the flexibility this offers to spend more time with the grandchildren while still staying active in the industry during these exciting times.

Carl’s goal for PSMA during his time in a leadership position is to encourage other people to become more involved with PSMA so they may experience the joy of working in such a dynamic organization for the good of the industry. PSMA is now expanding into new conferences and picking up the challenge to provide increased services to the industry.

Provided by Carl Blake, Chairman of the Board, PSMA

He joined International Rectifier in 2000 as Power IC Application Manager, then advanced to FAE and FAE management roles. He is now Executive Director of Applications and Marketing, focusing his efforts on IR’s Gallium Nitride program. He has remained active in IEEE, as Section Executive officer in the ‘90s, and more recently as an officer of the Twin Cities Section PELS chapter. He is co-chair of professional education seminars for APEC 2014.

Eric has presented more than 70 tutorials and papers at conferences including APEC, PESC, IAS, IECON, PCIM Europe, HFPC, and EPE among others. He regularly presents short courses and tutorials at UW Madison, the University of Minnesota and Purdue University. Mr. Persson holds 13 patents, and is a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. 

Provided by Eric Persson, Executive Director of Applications and Marketing, International Rectifier

aktron has been the leading manufacturer of Multi-Layer Polymer (MLP) film capacitors for over 50 years supported by more than 75 patents for film capacitors and machine design to provide reliable solution across the globe. Paktron specializes in Ultra Low ESR MLP capacitors in SMT (lead-framed and chip) and thru-hole, and, resistor-capacitor (RC) Network/Snubber.

The metallized electrode used in Paktron’s proprietary Interleaf® Technology process assures reliable performance. MLP surface mount, chip and lead framed capacitors are capacitors of choice in higher voltage and reliability-sensitive applications. The MLP capacitor provides improved stability, both electrically and mechanically, featuring a "non-shorting" operation and does not crack like large ceramic chip capacitors. Capacitance values range from 0.1 μF to 50 μF and the voltage ratings are 50 VDC to 500 VDC. Paktron serves Power Conversion for industries such as telecommunications/datacom, military infrastructure, automotive including electric vehicle, medical and high-end industrial. The 100 volt rated MLP capacitor is the part of choice for input/output filtering in 48 volt telecom bus power applications (on-board or dc/dc modules). In addition to the MLP products, Paktron is the supplier of the Quencharc® (RC) Network, the oldest trademark name in the industry for RC networks. The Quencharc® is used extensively in industrial applications where there are inductive loads (relays, solenoid valves, motor contactors) creating electrical noise leading to contact arcing or resetting of programmable logic controllers (PLCs).

Paktron recently introduced 50 μF 100VDC film capacitors for replacement of large ceramic capacitors. These parts are open frame with UL94 V-0 flame retardant epoxy coating capable of handling up to 30A of current at 200 KHz as the ESR is less than 2 mΩ at 200 KHz with TCE that is close to PCB. Non piezoelectric MLPs are extremely suitable for handling high spike currents on the voltage bus because of their superb dV/dt characteristics. The low ESR enables MLPs to offer highly efficient pulse handling capability with less than 1 FIT (one failure per million devices operational for 1000 hours) at 50% of rated voltage.

Provided by Debasis Roy, PhD, Director Business Development, Paktron Capacitors

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Crompton Greaves Ltd
Srinivas Ponnaluri
Crompton Greaves Ltd, Kanjur
Global R&D
Mumbai, Maharashtra 400042
India
E-mail: srinivas.ponnaluri@cgglobal.com
Website: www.cgglobal.com

As one of the world's leading engineering corporations, Compton Greaves Ltd (CG) provides end-to-end solutions, helping its customers use electrical power effectively and increase industrial productivity with sustainability. CG was established in 1937 in India; and, since then the company has been a pioneer and has retained its leadership position in the management and application of electrical energy.

CG’s unique and diverse portfolio ranges from transformers, switchgear, circuit breakers, network protection & control gear, project engineering, HT and LT motors, drives, lighting, fans, pumps and consumer appliances and turnkey solutions in all these areas; thus enhancing the many aspects of industrial and personal life. CG is among the top ten transformer manufacturers in the world, and one of the very few companies worldwide that designs and manufactures such a wide and diverse range of Power and Distribution Transformers as well as Reactors from 160kVA to 600MVA, and 11kV to 765kV Class, conforming to IEC, ANSI, IS, BS and other International Standards.

Since 2005, CG has embarked upon an ambitious globalization strategy. CG now has manufacturing bases in Belgium, Canada, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, France, UK and US, in addition to more than twenty manufacturing locations in India, employing more than 8000 employees worldwide with diverse nationalities and cultures. A worldwide marketing network of more than 150 representatives spans the globe, offering the entire range of CG’s products, solutions and services.

Gecko-Simulations AG
Jonas Muehlethaler
Physikstrasse 3
8092 Zurich
Switzerland
E-mail: jonas.muehlethaler@gecko-simulations.com

Gecko-Simulations was founded in 2013 as a spin-off company of ETH Zurich, Switzerland – one of Europe’s top technical universities - and is engaged in developing products for numerical simulation of power electronic systems. Different aspects of power electronic systems can be modeled by the software tools developed by Gecko-Simulations. In addition, consulting services for power electronics engineering are offered.

The company’s mission is to help the power electronics designer obtain a detailed insight into the performance of power electronic systems before any hardware prototypes are constructed. This is achieved through software tools developed by Gecko-Simulations, which enable the virtual design of power electronic systems while taking into account different design aspects: electrical functionality, thermal properties, electromagnetic compatibility, components design, and so on. The circuit system simulator GeckoCIRCUITS is distributed free of charge as an open-source package. The magnetic design tool GeckoMAGNETICS is available for users. In addition, software solutions for thermal and electromagnetic modeling – GeckoHEAT and GeckoEMC - are in the development phase.

Gecko-Simulations can help customers to design optimized products in the field of power electronics, and to significantly reduce product development time and cost.

Leadtrend Technology Corporation
Anita Huang
4F, 18, Prosperity Road II
Hsinchu
Taiwan
E-mail: anita@leadtrend.com.tw

Leadtrend Technology was founded in 2002 and is an IC fabless company in Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park. Leadtrend Technology specializes in high-performance power management IC. The company’s professional team is composed of highly experienced managers and designers. They are also one of the few IC Design Companies majoring in both AC-DC and DC-DC Converters in Taiwan.

Due to growing and changing standards in power saving technology, Leadtrend Technology aims to develop the premier IC to save more energy. Presently Leadtrend Technology has developed the“500V High Voltage Start-Up Green Mode PWM Controller”. It is an exclusive IC that is competitive with the global top-tier company. Leadtrend Technology dominates the market for DSC flash light controller IC and has earned a good reputation for making advancement in finding a total solution with its products.

Leadtrend Technology has won awards from the government for its continuous research and success in developing high-end technology. The company is committed to developing improved products that save energy consumption and protect the earth. Leadtrend Technology is determined to provide reliable and high value-added products, to assist customers in developing more high-end products that use less power and don’t harm the environment.

NWL Inc.

Tony Abrantes
312 Rising Sun Road
Bordentown, NJ 08505
E-mail: tabrantes@nwl.com
Website: www.nwl.com

NWL is one of the largest independent suppliers of transformers, capacitors, and power supplies for demanding industrial, military, and research customers. The company was founded in the 1930's by John Nothelfer as a transformer repair shop - Nothelfer Winding Laboratories, hence NWL. In 1968, Mr. Nothelfer retired and sold the company to a group of 13 employees led by then Vice President, Jim Seitz. The company remains employee owned today and is led by Jim Seitz's sons, David and Bert.

NWL has created a remarkable manufacturing company built on a platform that delivers technical direction, operational expertise, and ongoing product support. The real strength of NWL has been, and continues to be, the outstanding product and application knowledge of the company’s people.

For more than 70 years, NWL has maintained a vertically integrated manufacturing philosophy. As one of the largest independent suppliers of high-voltage power components and systems, they design, build, and support all products from start to finish. Their extensive resources help preserve design integrity and assure complete compatibility of all components—and highest possible quality of complete systems. NWL’s experienced engineers work with customer’s design and production teams to create transformers, capacitors, or power supplies that meet their exact needs.

W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.

Jeff Zhao
380 Starr Road
Landenberg, PA 19350
E-mail: jezhao@wlgore.com
Website: www.gore.com

Founders Bill and Vieve Gore started W. L. Gore & Associates in the basement of their home in 1958. The company initially served the electronic products market. Fifty years later, in 2008, Gore celebrated its long success at translating dreams into tangible, valuable realities for customers and communities around the world. W. L. Gore & Associates has made its name by creating innovative, technology-driven solutions, from medical devices that treat aneurysms to high-performance GORE-TEX® fabrics. A privately held company with annual sales of more than $3 billion, Gore is committed to perpetuating its 50-plus year tradition of product innovation.

Gore focuses its efforts in four main areas: electronics, fabrics, industrial and medical products. The company’s electronic products division develops and manufactures high-performance copper and optical signal transmission products. Gore’s fabrics provide protection from the elements and enable wearers to remain comfortable across a broad range of activities and conditions. The products made by Gore’s industrial division meet diverse contamination control and processing challenges throughout industry. Implants from the medical division provide creative healing solutions to complex medical problems.

Gore's electronic product portfolio today includes copper and fiber-based cables, assemblies, printed wiring board materials, conductive interface products and shielding gaskets. Gore products are found in high performance, challenging applications in the telecommunications, computing, test and measurement, defense, air and space markets, among others.

Today, Gore employs more than 10,000 employees, called associates, with manufacturing facilities in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan and China, and sales offices around the world.

Invitation and Call for Participation

Power Electronics and Electrical Challenges for
Engineering Energy-Efficient Buildings:
A Focused Workshop

Saturday, March 15, 2014
Omni Hotel, 1300 Houston Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76102
(Adjacent to the Fort Worth Convention Center)

eventy percent of global energy production is consumed in commercial and residential buildings. Power electronics applications can reduce this substantially. The IEEE PELS Emerging Technologies Technical Committee and PSMA, with leadership from the PSMA Alternative Energy Committee, will sponsor this special one-day workshop in conjunction with the Applied Power Electronics Conference. The event will address the impact and influence and power electronics, addressing these questions and related issues:

• How can power electronics control and reduce building energy consumption?
• What does it take to reduce average building consumption? Can it be reduced to zero?
• What about emerging dc building systems?
• What about energy storage?

Participants are invited to this pre-APEC workshop that is designed to gather a group of experts in power electronics and advanced energy-efficient buildings. Much of the past work on low-energy buildings has emphasized HVAC and envelope design, but the essential actuators and devices employ power electronics. The workshop objectives are to establish key subject matter, identify gaps and technology challenges, discuss market opportunities and develop a power electronics and electrical systems community for global initiatives in energy-efficient buildings.

Workshop topics include an overview of the two largest zero-net-energy building projects in the U.S., work on emerging methods for dc protection and distribution, and power electronics for sophisticated control of thermal storage. The workshop is intended to lead to a series of conferences to develop power electronics leadership for implementation of low-energy building designs. Since this will be an interactive workshop, the size is limited and early registration is strongly encouraged.

The workshop format mixes invited presentations and small-group discussion. Discussion groups will evaluate technical challenges, establish scope objectives for the technical community, and prepare action items to be addressed by the sponsoring committees and other volunteers. Workshop leaders will prepare a formal report for PELS and for the PSMA membership, which will include all presentation materials and a summary of the discussions and future plans. The general format and activity schedule is similar to prior PSMA-sponsored pre-APEC workshops.

The General Chair for the workshop is Prof. Philip Krein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who stated, This workshop will address market opportunities for power electronics and electrical systems in energy-efficient buildings. The interactive format of this workshop will not only provide information from leading players on the emerging technologies but will allow participants to interact and network with leaders in the industry.

Advance registration is required. The registration fee for PSMA and IEEE members is $150 which includes breakfast, lunch, breaks, room rental, and workshop materials. The registration fee for non-members is $250.

The Engineering Energy Efficient Buildings Workshop website website provides the latest information on invited speakers, topics, detailed schedules and registration information.

About IEEE PELS: The Power Electronics Society is one of the technical societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). For over 250 years, PELS has facilitated and guided the development and innovation in power electronics technology. This technology encompasses the effective use of electronic components, the application of circuit theory and design techniques, and the development of analytical tools toward efficient conversion, control and conditioning of electric power.

About PSMA: PSMA is a non-profit professional organization with the objective of enhancing the stature and reputation of its members and their products, and improvement of their technological power sources knowledge. Its aim is to educate the entire electronics industry, academia, government, and industry agencies as to the applications and importance of all types of power sources and conversion devices.

So when a recent 60 Minutes CBS News Magazine report (01/05/14) portrayed Cleantech as bust -The Cleantech Crash -, it created a firestorm of criticism, suggesting that the report was biased and one-sided. Indeed, the program which was produced in the US, seemed limited in its scope and analysis as it focused on a few failed companies such as the solar panel maker - Solyndra, and the electric-car-battery manufacture -A 123 Systems, Inc. Both of these companies filed for bankruptcies despite receiving millions of dollars in support from the US government. These two failed companies are routinely portrayed as examples of the failure of Cleantech industry by anti-green proponents who may be political, economic or chattering class. It should be noted that the audience for the 60 Minutes CBS News Magazine is largely US-based. The focus on these two failed US companies was useful to CBS as a means to attract a wider audience and to increase its TV ratings since 60 Minutes is a commercial news show that depends on its viewership for profits and survival. But was the report a serious scientific or business inquiry? Considering 60 Minutes prestige as a news magazine, the producers should have done a more comprehensive global inquiry and analysis on the status of the Cleantech movement rather than focusing on a few unsuccessful companies and evaluating the potential for an entire industry on the basis of this very small and biased sample.

So what is the state and the future of the green economy or clean technology?

First, it is important to more broadly define what is encompassed in the terms the green economy, the clean technology or Cleantech. Simply, it is any energy generating or consuming system or entity that generates less pollution or no pollution when compared to an existing energy generating system. Clean technology is largely related to electric generation, distribution and efficient usage; therefore, it is strongly related to power electronics. Future development of the clean technology economy and its wider acceptance by different societies will have a direct impact on the technical developments and business opportunities for power electronics.

There are two aspects of clean technology: renewable power generation and higher power/energy utilization through improved efficiency within a system. So in order to better evaluate current state and future direction of the clean technology, it is necessary to review the various metrics related to global power generation and energy efficiency.

Some readily available data related to various "green" trends includes:

• Power Consumption (related to power generation):

Renewable energy generates less or no pollution compared to fossil fuel-based electric generation. According to International Energy Outlook (IEO), the global energy consumption generated by the renewable energy sources was about 10.7% in 2010. This is expected to increase to 14.9% by 2040. During the same period (2010-2040) energy consumption from fossil fuels will decline from 84% to 78%. (Source article: Our Fossil-Fueled Future: World Energy in 2040 by Michael T. Klare appeared on www.ecowatch.com on 09/10/13).

• Transportation:

Electric and hybrid vehicles generate less pollution than gas (petrol/diesel) power cars. According to the computation and data used from the CNBC and Navigant Research, Inc., the market share held by all types of electric vehicles will increase from 2.65% in 2013 to about 7.0% by 2020.

• Smart Grid:

Smart grid technologies can make the electrical grid operation more efficient. According to Navigant Research, Inc., the market for smart grid technologies will reach $73 billion in annual revenue by the end of 2020, totaling about $461 billion in cumulative revenue from 2013 to 2020.

• Smart Buildings:

This is technology that allows electricity used within a building to be more efficient. According to IDC Corp., global spending on smart buildings will increase from $5.5 billion in 2013 to $18.1 billion by 2017 at about 27.1% CAGR.

• LEDs:

LED light bulbs are replacing existing incandescent and CFL light bulbs at a rapid pace. LEDs use less energy to produce same amount of light or lumens. According to McKinsey & Company, the global LED lighting market will grow from about $16.38 billion in 2013, to $46.11 billion by 2017 at about 30% CAGR.

These are just a few of the metrics for clean technology development and deployment. If one analyses these trends, clean technology cannot be considered as a bust. The growth and adoption will be constrained as the technology will have to deal with issues of competition from the existing, well developed fossil-fuels infrastructure inertia and the changes required in human behavior. Some of the changes required may be quite radical in nature and will take years for widespread acceptance. In addition, since clean technologies are new and initially expensive these may pose their own issues and problems that will require novel and yet untested solutions. But clean technology is definitely not a Bust as portrayed by the 60 Minutes CBS News Magazine report, but in fact is rather gaining momentum and acceptance around the world. One item repeatedly mentioned in the failure of Solyndra and A 123 Systems, Inc. may be true, that the Federal government should not have invested in few select companies, but instead the Federal government should invest in the R&D efforts for development of new technologies.

Vinod Khosla, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, has funded many clean technology start-ups through his venture company, Khosla Ventures and was interviewed for this segment. He gave a scathing rebuttal to the 60 Minutes CBS News Magazine report, mentioning that the report grossly misrepresented the state of the sustainable energy industry by not checking simple and easily available facts. After analyzing various data points and trends, that seems to be the case. The 60 Minutes CBS News Magazine report "The Cleantech Crash" was a shallow inquiry into an emerging, important and paradigm-shifting technology with long term consequences. In the long term, green economy, green technology, cleantech, or sustainable energy, whatever the name may be, is here to stay and thrive, because there is no other alternative. Fossil fuels are not forever.

Provided by Mohan Mankikar, President, Micro-Tech Consultants

36th International Communications Energy Conference, September 28 – October 2, 2014

NTELEC®, International Telecommunications Energy Conference, is the annual world-class technical forum presenting the latest in communications power systems, energy storage and energy conversion. This year's exciting conference program will include key note and plenary sessions from today's industry leaders as well as technical presentations, continuing educations tutorials and workshops and poster sessions. This leading conference will also include a comprehensive technical tour and social program for networking amongst industry peers.

SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE

The scope of the conference will include but not limited to the following communications power and energy systems topics:

• Outside plant power systems (twisted pair, customer premises etc.)
• Renewable energy generations (Wind, PV, Hybrid)
• Islanded and grid-connected autonomous power systems
• Power systems (High and/or low voltage DC; High and/or low voltage AC) for central offices/data centers
• Power distribution architectures for communications equipment
• Wireless power transfer for handheld communications devices

• Architectures for energy storage
• Battery technology (lead, zinc, lithium, sodium)
• Flow battery technology
• New fuel cell technology
• Energy management techniques
• Energy modeling and simulation

• Circuit topologies and control techniques for AC/DC, DC/DC and DC/AC power converters
• Utility interface inverters for energy generation and storage
• AC and DC UPS
• High efficiency and high density power supplies

• Disaster recovery and mitigation
• Engine generator technology
• Physical and thermal design
• Grounding and EMC
• Codes, standards and specifications

For more information, please visit www.intelec2014.org

Provided by John P. Gagge, Jr, INTELEC 2014 Publicity Chair

• Quarterly performance of the Solar Energy Stock Index versus the S&P Index
• Relative market valuations of each Solar Energy Category
• Current financial data for each company in the index

solarenergy_stockindex_q42013.pdf (75k pdf)

This data is included with the permission of Lincoln International. For more information, you may contact John McManus (jmcman@optonline.net) or the Association Office.

• 2103 deal volume comparison by total transactions, deal type, geography, and size
• Recent Solar Energy transaction announcements

solarenergy_dealreader_q42013.pdf (70k pdf)

This data is included with the permission of Lincoln International. For more information, you may contact John McManus (jmcman@optonline.net) or the Association Office.

• Quarterly performance of the EMS Stock Index versus the S&P Index
• Relative market valuations of each EMS Tier
• Current financial data for each company in the index

ems_stockindex_q42013.pdf (343k pdf)

This data is included with the permission of Lincoln International. For more information, you may contact John McManus (jmcman@optonline.net) or the Association Office.

• Q4 2013 deal volume comparison by total transactions, deal type, geography and size
• Recent EMS transaction announcements
• A review of the 2013 EMS M&A market

ems_dealreader_q42013.pdf (89k pdf)

This data is included with the permission of Lincoln International. For more information, you may contact John McManus (jmcman@optonline.net) or the Association Office.

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