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National Semi plans to reduce solar energy losses due to shading

March 2, 2009 - by Emma Ritch - National Semiconductor thinks add-on distributed control system for solar panels could one day make up a quarter of its sales. Full Story »

France's Schneider Electric grabbing Xantrex

July 28, 2008 - by David Ehrlich - Schneider will acquire most of the Canadian company, with Pennsylvania's Ametek buying Xantrex's programmable power business. Full Story »

Takeovers, buyouts and bankruptcy

July 24, 2008 - by David Ehrlich - The battle continues in the garbage business, a solar firm goes on the block, Chapter 11 looms for a fuel cell company, and more, with a total of 25 deals spotted over the past week. Full Story »

Xantrex Technology up for sale

July 23, 2008 - by David Ehrlich - The developer of advanced power electronic products isn't divulging any details about the deal. Full Story »

New TI chips to boost solar inverter performance

June 4, 2007 - by Dana Childs - New Texas Instruments DSCs boost performance 50 percent and simplify software development for solar power inverters and other applications Full Story »

Suntech named major supplier of 8MW Colorado solar plant

April 30, 2007 - by Dana Childs - SunEdison has selected Suntech, along with Xantrex and Solon, to supply its large 8.22-megawatt photovoltaic solar power plant near Alamosa, Colorado. Full Story »

Xantrex and Shanghai Electric form joint venture

March 16, 2007 - by Dana Childs - The two companies are banding together offer inverters made and sold in China based on Xantrex technology. Full Story »

Power-One and Xantrex introduce new inverters

February 21, 2007 - by Dana Childs - New inverters use two "high-speed channels" to optimize energy harvesting and provide up to 97% conversion efficiencies. Full Story »
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