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    Wärtsilä and RCT Solutions Launch Valo, a New Energy Storage Integrator with 20 GWh on Day One

    Dr. Luke Witmer, Chief Technology Officer of Valo

    ­Technology group Wärtsilä and RCT Solutions GmbH today launched Valo, a global battery energy storage system integrator designed to help customers navigate the growing complexity of delivering utility-scale energy storage projects.   Energy storage projects are getting bigger, but scale is only p
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    Date:
    10/01/2026
    How to Manage Increased Power Demand with High-Density Charging Infrastructure

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    Figure 1: The modeled annual electricity consumption from electric ground support equipment at Atlanta Airport in 2025. Each column represents a percentage of electric ground support equipment in the fleet

    ­From material handling forklifts to airport baggage tugs, many industries are adopting electric equipment to enhance operational efficiency and meet sustainability targets. However, deploying the power infrastructure required to charge these electric vehicles introduces new challenges for engineers and facil
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    Date:
    10/01/2026
    Save Space, Improve Efficiency with 4-Switch Buck-Boost Controllers

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    Figure 1: Ground-referenced current sensing in 4-switch buck-boost converters

    The 4-switch buck-boost converter is popular and well-known for generating a regulated output voltage above, below, or equal to the input voltage. It also disconnects the input/output (I/O) during extreme fault conditions, such as the input short circuit or the output short circuit conditions. Together with over
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    Date:
    10/01/2026
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