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If you wish to participate in the Technical Program submit a digest of your paper by July 17, 2009. The digest will be reviewed by the APEC Technical Program Committee. Authors whose papers are selected will be notified by October 2, 2009 and are required to prepare a formal manuscript for the APEC Proceedings by November 27, 2009. While this is the most challenging way to make a presentation, listing an APEC published paper on the resume never hurts!

In addition to technical papers, consider some of the many alternatives for you and your organization to participate.  Special Presentation Sessions allow a speaker to deliver a presentation without writing a formal manuscript. Presentations in these sessions are selected on both quality and the interest to the power electronics community. Deadline for submitting proposals is August 31, 2009. 

Professional Education Seminars offer the chance to present a topic in much greater depth and detail than a technical presentation. The Professional Education Seminars are three hours in length, topics can range from broad to narrow in scope, and vary from introductory to advanced in technical level. At APEC 2010, the seminars will be given during the morning and afternoon of Sunday, February 21 and the morning of Monday, February 22. Deadline for submitting a Professional Education Seminars proposal is August 31, 2009.  Please note that one of the requirements for the Professional Education Seminars is that they are strictly non-commercial.

Exhibitor Seminars provide companies with yet another way of participating in the APEC 2010 Exposition with a chance to present a 45 minute talk on their topic of choice. The best Exhibitor Seminars describe a problem generally faced by people in the industry, how the problem is solved in general and then, the advantages that your products and services offer in solving this problem. The number of time slots available for Exhibitor Seminars is limited - so contact the APEC 2010 Exposition Chair, Don Woodard,  soon to express your interest or to request more information.

For more information or to get started on submitting a proposal, please visit www.apec-conf.com.

Greg Evans, APEC 2009 Publicity Chair

Greg Evans

Power Guide provides everything from standard, modified standard, and complete custom design from 1 watt to 10 k watts. The companies ac to dc product offering includes wall mount, desktop, ATX, open frame, U-Channel, hot plug, 1 U products. The dc to dc offering covers from 1 watt to 500 watt product.  All battery chemistries are handled along with chargers to support all markets. Power Guide also provides a full range of EMI filters, magnetic’s, and AC line cords to provide complete support. The Company services the Medical, IT, instrumentation, military, commercial, consumer, and industrial markets.
 
For more information on Power Guide Marketing, Inc., please visit www.power-guide.com.

Provided by Ron Josephson, President/CEO, Power Guide Marketing, Inc.

 
RAF Tabtronics LLC specializes in creating and commercializing cost-effective advanced technologies for electromagnetic components.  Our groundbreaking innovations in ultra-high power density and high-efficiency transformers and inductors provide significant competitive advantage to electronics OEMs and ECMs. The world’s top companies in defense, aerospace, medical, security, telecommunications and several diverse high technology sectors rely upon our technologies.

RAF Tabtronics LLC has over three decades of experience in the direct manufacture and strategic outsourcing of electromagnetic components.  We continually focus on the development of current and future market driven innovation to provide efficient power through smaller components. 

RAF Tabtronics LLC is known for best-of-class customer service, hassle-free relationships, and competitive pricing with multiple domestic and global manufacturing facilities.

OUR VISION:

RAF Tabtronics LLC is the global leader in the custom electromagnetic components industry.  We create advanced electromagnetic technologies and cost-effective customized solutions for the world's leading technology companies. 

• We are the best in the world at developing cost-competitive high-performance power magnetic components.
• We are deeply passionate about magnetics and the commercialization of new magnetic technology. 
• Our economic engine is profit per loyal, repeat customer.

OUR HISTORY:

RAF Tabtronics LLC combines the expertise and experience of multiple magnetics firms:  RAF Technologies Inc., Tabtronics Inc., RAF Magnetics Inc., MicroSpire SAS, Chloride Electro Networks (CEN), and TomTer.  From this heritage RAF Tabtronics LLC has earned the status of a world-class manufacturer of magnetic components, possessing the knowledge and expertise to provide quality service as well as quality product.

OUR ORGANIZATION:

Over 200+ associates globally.  Over 100,000 square feet of manufacturing in seven countries.  Over 50,000 custom magnetics designs in our portfolio. 

OUR QUALITY SYSTEMS:

Certified to AS9100, ISO9001:2000, and J-STD-001, RAF Tabtronics is committed to meeting our customer’s cost, quality and performance objectives with hassle-free service and continuous improvement of our management systems.

HYPER-X MAGNETIC TECHNOLOGYTM:

In Q2 of 2009, RAF Tabtronics LLC received a patent for its Hyper-X Magnetic Technology TM (HXMT).  The patent enables RAF Tabtronics to be the leading designer and supplier of smaller, more efficient inductive components for the most demanding power electronics applications.  HXMT will enable energy saving advancements in Solar, Wind, Hybrid Vehicles, Medical, Defense and Aerospace applications. RAF Tabtronics believes that the use of Hyper-X Magnetic Technology will allow the integrator to offer the end-user significant size, weight, and energy savings in devices which incorporate this patented technology.

U.S. Patent number 7,506,280 provides technology that optimizes electromagnetic coil constructions on a layer-by-layer basis. This optimization yields preferred configurations to achieve desired electromagnetic component functions. For example, minimum loss or minimum cost winding configurations may be computationally deduced for complex waveforms including phase displaced operating conditions. RAF Tabtronics has implemented this technology in many designs since its initial development in November 2004.

According to Victor Quinn, Chief Technology Officer for RAF Tabtronics, “Hyper-X Magnetic Technology provides an advanced degree of inductive component design optimization which is crucial for applications with demanding expectations for performance and cost tradeoffs. Together with other proprietary design methods and resources, Hyper-X Magnetic Technology enables RAF Tabtronics to provide customers with uniquely optimized and beneficial configurations.”  This innovation is an example of the firm’s commitment to being a global leader in the development of advanced technologies for electromagnetic components. 

For more information, and a HXMT White Paper, visit http://www.raftabtronics.com

CAPABILITIES & TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

• power (up to 1000 Amps, up to 50 kW, up to 500MHz, up to 50 kV)
• topologies (Flyback, Resonant, Buck, Boost, Forward; Bridge)
• winding (planar, annular, hybrid, Litz, foil, specialty wire; conventional)
• core geometries (all standard shapes & sizes, custom shapes & sizes)
• core materials (ferrites, powdered iron, MPP, silicon steel, nickel, cobalt, amorphous metals, nanocrystalline)
• magnetics design experts:  3D CAD, mechanical, thermal, electrical & magnetic design, computer simulation & optimization, design feasibility, verification testing
• specialties:  Hyper-X Magnetic Technology TM, SESITM, ultra-high power density / high-efficiency components, hybrid magnetics, transfer-molding, high-voltage, aluminum foil windings, customized rotors & stators, planar, rapid-prototyping, quick-turn production

GLOBAL STANDARDS:

• ITAR registered / DSP-5 licensed in Low-Cost Countries
• military standards (MIL-PRF-27, MIL-STD-981, MIL-T-21038, MIL-STD-1533, MIL-STD-454)
• safety standards (UL, CSA, TUV, VDE, BSI, CE)
• quality & environmental standards (AS9100 / ISO9001, IEC, J-STD-001, RoHS)

For more information on RAF Tabtronics LLC, please visit www.raftabtronics.com

Provided by James C Tabbi, President & COO, RAF Tabtronics LLC.

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very year the terms of office for four of the twelve Directors of the PSMA Board of Directors expires. At the 2009 PSMA Annual Meeting held during APEC 2009, four Directors were elected for the 2009 – 2012 term. They were Arnold Alderman, Dusty Becker, Frank Cirolia and Carl Blake. At the Board of Directors meeting following the Annual Meeting, Aung Tu was appointed Director to complete an unexpired term.
 
We would like to introduce Frank Cirolia, who was reelected to his second consecutive term as a PSMA Director.

Frank Cirolia 

Frank Cirolia has 27 years of experience in the power supply industry. He progressed through the ranks since receiving an ASEE, in 1982 and a BSEE, in 1987. Frank advanced from an Engineering Technician to Design Engineer and Project Engineer, promoted to Chief Engineer then to Engineering Manager. Currently working at Emerson as a Systems and Applications Engineer, supporting key telecom companies throughout North America

Frank’s technical expertise includes responsibility for the design, layout, packaging and production of single and multiple output converters utilizing various topologies, with power outputs ranging from 10 to 3000 watts.  He had Military and Aerospace experience with Lockheed; high volume - PC power supply experience with Wang Labs; and commercial OEM/ Telco experience with companies such as Unipower, ABB, Ascom, Delta, Artesyn and Emerson.

Industry Involvement and Achievements include:

• The South Florida Manufacturing Associates Award for design manufacturability.
• The Florida Governor’s New Product Award,
• Actively involved with VPEC and CPES
• Member of IEEE/ PELS for the past 20 years.
• Active Member of PICMG MicroTCA Platform Committee
• Presenter at ATCA and MicroTCA summits

Frank is actively involved with APEC: 

• Currently on the PSMA track to Chair APEC 2012.
• Member of the Steering Committee.
• Rap Session Chair.
• Technical Session Chair.
• Active participant at the Planning Sessions.
• Presented Technical papers as well as Special Presentations.

Frank’s involvement with PSMA includes:

• Currently PSMA Vice-President.
• Currently PSMA Marketing Co-Chair.
• Involved with the StatPEP special project
• Involved with several Power Technology Roadmap Workshops

Frank considers work a hobby and is always ready to support the industry, anyway he can.

Provided by Frank Cirolia, Systems and Applications Engineer, Emerson Network Power

CogniPower
Thomas Lawson
3217 Phoenixville Pike
Malvern, PA 19355
E-Mail: tlawson@cognipower.com
Web Site: www.cognipower.com

CogniPower is committed to building better, more efficient power products. Better switched-mode power converters begin with better visibility.

Their mission is to re-examine accepted wisdom regarding power converters in the light of new control technology, improved components, and changing economics driven by energy cost and availability.

One of CogniPower's patents has issued. Five US patents are pending. They have eight international patents filed. They believe their patents will be the basis for major improvements in how effectively and efficiently power is transformed and used.

CogniPower has developed an improved way to monitor current in the high-speed, high-current environment found in switched-mode power converters.

Their patent-pending current probe was created to address limitations of conventional techniques when monitoring AC and DC currents in switched-mode power converters. The combined needs for DC accuracy, high bandwidth, excellent common mode rejection, and low cost could not be met without new developments. Their probes use an ultra-low inductance sense resistor in conjunction with a novel sampling bridge to extend excellent common rejection to higher frequencies.

Johann Kolar
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
ETH Zentrum Physikstrasse 3
Zurich CH-8092
Switzerland
E-Mail: kolar@lem.ee.ethz.ch

Johann W. Kolar was appointed Professor and Head of the Power Electronics Systems Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich on Feb. 1, 2001.

He studied industrial electronics at the University of Technology Vienna, Austria, where he also received the Ph.D. degree (summa cum laude). From 1984 to 2001 he was with the University of Technology in Vienna, where he was teaching and working in research in close collaboration with the industry in the fields of high performance drives, high frequency inverter systems for process technology and uninterruptible power supplies. He has proposed numerous novel converter topologies, e.g., the VIENNA Rectifier and the Three-Phase AC-AC Sparse Matrix Converter concept. Dr. Kolar has published over 250 scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings and has filed more than 50 patents.

The focus of his current research is on novel AC-AC and AC-DC converter topologies with low effects on the mains for telecommunication systems, More-Electric-Aircraft applications and distributed power systems utilizing fuel cells. A further main area of research is the realization of ultra-compact intelligent converter modules employing latest power semiconductor technology (SiC) and novel concepts for cooling and EMI filtering.
Dr. Kolar is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEJ and of Technical Program Committees of numerous international conferences in the field (e.g. Director of the Power Quality branch of the International Conference on Power Conversion and Intelligent Motion). From 1997 through 2000 he served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and since 2001 as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.

The research at the Power Electronic Systems Laboratory (PES) addresses challenges that have a fundamental or generic nature. The focus is on ultra-high switching frequency and highly compact PWM converter systems where the considerations are on a system-oriented basis and proposed concepts should allow a translation into future innovative industrial products. Converter topologies, modulation schemes, control, and EMI are seen as coupled issues rather than treated in a sequential manner. Circuit-oriented simulation and finite-element-based analysis of the electromagnetic and thermal behavior are integrated into the research and design process.

 

 

Dragan Maksimovic
University of Colorado
425 UCB, Dept. of ECEE
Boulder, CO 80309
E-Mail: maksimov@colorado.edu
Web Site: www.colorado.edu/~pwrelect/

Dragan Maksimovic received his Ph.D. from Caltech in 1989. In 1992 he joined University of Colorado, Boulder, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He teaches courses in energy conversion, analog and power electronics, and analog integrated circuits. His research interests include control methods, computer-aided analysis techniques, power converters for low-power electronics and integrated circuits for power management applications. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 1997 and the IEEE Transactions Paper Prize Award in 1997. He is the co-author of the textbook Fundamentals of Power Electronics, 2nd edition, Kluwer 2001.

Dr. Maksimovic is Co-Director of the Colorado Power Electronics Center (COPEC).
Since it was founded in 1983, the power electronics group at the University of Colorado has maintained a tradition of innovative design-oriented and application-driven research. CoPEC activities now span the range of applications from high-efficiency milliwatt converters for portable battery-operated systems, to hundreds or thousands of watts for computer, aerospace, telecommunications, medical and automotive power conversion, to hundreds of kilowatts for wind generation systems.

TDK-Lambda

David Norton
3055 Del Sol Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92154
E-Mail: david.norton@us.tdk-lambda.com
Web Site: www.us.tdk-lambda.com/lp 

TDK-Lambda Americas Inc. is recognized as the world's leading manufacturer of standard switching and linear electronic power supplies. Founded in 1948 Lambda grew steadily, quickly acquiring a strong reputation for its high standards of quality and reliable products. Today the Lambda Power group of companies is an international presence with facilities in Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore and the United States. 

Their research & development, engineering and marketing teams ensure that they stay number one by making sure that their products consistently meet and exceed the ever-changing needs of their Fortune 500 customers. And no matter where in the world you buy it, every Lambda product comes out of an ISO 9001 certified plant.

Company Vision
Provide customers with products that meet their needs and exceed their expectations. Continuously promote innovation, teamwork, quality improvement, individual initiative and ethical business practices.

Training & Education
Everyone participates in a continuous process of training and education to achieve individual and company goals. Managers proactively identify training needs and always encourage employees to take advantage of all appropriate and available training. TDK-Lambda also provides tuition assistance to encourage and enable employees to pursue advanced educational goals.

Environment & Career Advancement
The environment is one of trust, encouragement, respect and open communication. Leadership is by example. Employees are given the tools, time and guidance necessary to achieve organizational and career goals.

Graham Town
Macquarie University
North Ryde NS 2109
Australia
E-Mail: graham.town@mq.edu.au
Web Site: http://www.engineering.mq.edu.au

Graham Town commenced his engineering career in 1978 with the Engineering Products Division of AWA Pty Ltd, North Ryde. From 1978 – 1983 he was employed as an engineering trainee, and completed a Bachelor of Engineering with 1st class honors at the New South Wales Institute of Technology (now UTS) in 1983. His undergraduate thesis was undertaken in collaboration with CSIRO Radiophysics on the topic of microwave holography for antenna metrology. During the period at AWA he worked on a variety of projects around the company, including microwave telecommunication systems, the Interscan microwave landing system, and development of 1st generation optical fiber telecommunications systems.

From 1985 to 1991 Graham worked towards a PhD in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Sydney University where he was a member of a group which built a small nuclear magnetic resonance imaging system. He completed his PhD thesis on the topic of selective excitation in NMR imaging and spectroscopy in 1991. From 1990 to mid-2002 Dr. Town was employed as an academic in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Sydney. During this period he undertook research in the area of fiber optics and photonics, with specific interests in broadband fiber lasers, nonlinear fiber optics, and Bragg grating design and applications. He was an early academic member of the Optical Fiber Technology Centre, and subsequently the Australian Photonics CRC.
Professor Town has been a member of academic staff in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Macquarie University since mid-2002, where he set up the Guided Wave Optics and Photonics Research laboratory, and was responsible for setting up Macquarie University’s first engineering degree in Telecommunications Engineering. Dr. Town is a member of Macquarie University’s Laser and Photonics CORE, the Quantum Information Science CORE, and Wireless Communications CORE, and has been undertaking research in the area of guided-wave optics and photonics with particular interests in nano-composite polymer materials and microstructured polymer optical fibers and devices for applications in telecommunications and sensing.  

Dr. Town has authored or coauthored over 130 journal and conference papers, including 4 invited conference papers and 4 book chapters, primarily in the areas of broadband optical fiber lasers, nonlinear fiber optics, and guided-wave filter design. Several of his journal publications are highly cited. He is inventor or co inventor on several provisional patents and 3 international patents on optical fiber devices and processing. Dr. Town is a Senior Member of the IEEE - he currently chairs the Lasers and Electrooptics/ Circuits and Systems/ Solid State Circuits joint chapter in Sydney. He is also a member of the Australian Optical Society, and a member of Engineers Australia. 

The undergraduate Engineering degree programs at Macquarie University are flexible with a strong focus on practical learning. With a campus located in one of Australia’s leading high-technology precincts, Macquarie is a great place to study engineering.

Nanotechnology Info & Resources for the Electronics Industry

According to Dr. Laviano, “The impact of nanotechnology on future power supply design will be significant. Design solutions will be the nanoscale. Today’s design components will be less in demand. This field is growing at a rapid rate, and Europe appears to be in the lead.  In the U.S. there are hundreds of research programs under way, with enthusiastic support from the government.  Competition for funding of new projects is also growing, and the future of nanotechnology is very exciting!”

Provided by Chuck Mullett and Anthony Laviano, Nanotechnology Committee Co-chairs.

It took 10 years for switch-mode power supplies to go from mainstream commercial products to 55% of the market. If digital follows this line, it has a lot of market potential ahead of it. In fact, Darnell sees digital just starting to enter its “growth phase,” with the lifecycle curve not even flattening in the next five years and it is still rare to find a “pure digital solution,” for instance. Price declines will only begin by 2013, so dollar sales are forecast to experience a healthy growth rate of just over 29% up to this point.

The digital power market is being driven by a growing number of factors including: enabling new power architectures through digital control techniques; the migration of digital control into nearly all application segments; the adoption of digital control in high-volume and cost-sensitive consumer devices; the realization of adaptive control techniques in cost-effective controllers; the shift from predictive to proactive real-time power systems diagnostics with digital power; and neural-based digital controller chips that will result in power supplies that can “learn” and improve their performance over time.

Like switch-mode regulation, digital control is not a limited technology. It has applications in embedded and external ac-dc power supplies, isolated and non-isolated dc-dc converters, telecom rectifiers, and lighting ballasts. Most importantly, digital has penetrated nearly all application segments, from high-performance computing to high-volume consumer products.

What does this mean for power supply and digital controller IC companies? First, the digital power management and control market is not only alive; it is just entering its adolescence. Its biggest growth spurts are immediately ahead, and maturity is still years away. This is always an exciting time for any market, since the groundwork has already been established and companies don’t have to “make a case” for the technology anymore. Even though the major players are established, the way is now opened for companies to differentiate themselves in specific application segments and product lines.

Customers continue to demand efficiency, with regulations and the cost of energy driving this demand. Power supply prices are at historic lows, and the global economic downturn has made efficiency an important differentiating factor. The concept of “intelligent power management” is being extended to higher-level system implementation, as well.

Digital power management and control is on the cusp of widespread implementation, and despite a slower economy, the technology developments are not only likely to continue, but are likely to enable the very efficiencies and cost-effectiveness that customers are looking for. The next couple of years should see the emergence of an even more-established market for digital control products.

Provided by Linnea Brush, Senior Research Analyst, Darnell Group

And then recently another friend of mine working for a power supply company in the US told me that he told his son a few years ago not to select engineering as field of choice, especially power engineering, as the pay is lousy, with no job security and no respect. His son did not follow in his father’s footsteps.

Now, who is right? 

The worldwide economy is in decline and all fields in all countries are suffering. Power engineering is suffering along with many other fields. But is that a long-term, systemic problem for the power engineering around the world?

In the US, where the engineering field is not highly valued (a common view held by most engineers), a decline in engineering in general, and in power engineering in particular is highly probable. So a negative sentiment among engineers about their own field is not that surprising. (Save politicians who are constantly harping benefits of becoming engineers and scientists as a public good issue, rather than a personal achievement). But then let us take India, a country I know well, which is known to respect engineering.

When I grew up in India, all my friends wanted to be engineers and many (not all) became engineers. That was more than 35 years ago. What is the situation in India today?  One hears so much about India as an engineering center. Even today, many Indians want to be engineers. It is a valued and highly respected profession having ties to mathematics (considered as an elite and prestigious subject) and salary. Engineers are relatively well paid compared to many other professions. But most engineers in India want to be IT (Information Technology) engineers and not power engineers. Many of my friends from my former engineering college started power supply companies and today they have a hard time recruiting engineers in India for a reasonable salary. Most want to work for prestigious IT companies such as Infosys, Tata Consultancy Service (TCS) or Wipro, not a local power supply company. Though India is one case, I believe this situation is prevalent in many parts of the world.

So from an engineering perspective, what is the future of power engineering? Overall, interest in power engineering has remained steady as one can see it from a review of engineering the curricula at various universities. Most famous among them is Virginia Tech. Dr. Fred Lee deserves credit for providing high visibility to the power engineering field. He created CPES—Center for Power Electronic Systems, a multi-university consortium and received a multi-year grant from the National Science Foundation for an advanced research program. Dr. Deepak Dewan, Professor of Power Electronics, at Georgia Tech told me, that he has one of the largest power electronics programs in the country. Although it may not be apparent, power electronics is taught in at least fifty different institutions in a wide variety of science and engineering fields.

The most important aspect of power is that it is essential. There is no replacement for power. It may take different forms in generation, conversion and protection, but it is irreplaceable. And it seems that with the strong and growing interest in new sources of energy often referred to as renewable, alternative or sustainable, new era for power electronics is dawning on us. Power engineering may emerge in a different form, but it is in the next phase of revolution.

Provided by Mohan Mankikar, President, Micro-Tech Consultants

The Power Electronics Stock Index provides you with information on the following:

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

This data is included with the permission of Lincoln International. For more information, you may contact John McManus or the Association Office.

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EXHIBITION

The organizing committee of 2009 International Telecommunications Energy Conference invites your company to be an exhibitor of INTELEC2009. The exhibition of the INTELEC2009 will be the perfect international showcase for your organization to present your latest technological developments and product innovations. As the conference theme suggests, we hope to view the “Global Convergence for Smart Energy-Telecommunication” from all new perspectives and wish to extend the premier benefits of telecommunications throughout all parts of the world.

Now, Korean blue chip companies in this filed such as LS Industrial System, LG INNOTEK, SAMSUNG Electronics, and UNISON are planned to join INTELEC2009 Exhibition. Also, many other enterprises like DONGH ELECOMM, Changsung, and POWERTRON have confirmed to participate and foreign companies such as Exide Technologies, East Penn Mfg. Co., Inc., Shandong Sacred Sun Power Sources, ENATEL, and OSADA would surely enhance the exhibition.

EXCURSION
The host organizing committee has prepared variety excursion programs to provide conference delegates with the chance to experience Korea’s history, culture, and industrial development.
The very exciting sites offered by INTELEC2009 are as following:

• Dream Park + Hwadojin

  Dream Park Plan envisages maximization of the function of the wastes landfill site by
  recovering its natural features and calls for utilization of the site as an environmental
   ecological park with complementary facilities.

• Korean Folk Village
• DMZ(demilitarized zone)

As one of the last relics of the Cold War, the DMZ attracts a great deal of public interest. Korea DMZ tourist sites have been created to quench peoples’ curiosity on this unique area where tension and peace coincide.

• Korea South East Power Co., Ltd. + Sihwa-Lake Tidal Power Plant

The delegates will see Yonghung Thermal Power Plant in Incheon City, which is the first nation-wide plant in the classified level of 800,000kW. Sihwa-Lake is the largest of its kind in the world and the first in Korea. Sihwa-Lake Tidal Power Plant will develop oceanic energy as an alternative clean energy resource.

Provided by Intelec2009 Secretariat Min Jung Kim

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