EPRI/PSMA Publish Energy Efficiency Workshop Report

12th December 2007

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The Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA ) has announced the release of Follow the Power, a report on the Energy Efficiency Workshop held on February 24, 2007 and sponsored by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and PSMA. This benchmark report captures the major possible energy efficiency improvements for the entire power network from Power Generator to the Integrated Circuit (the load).

Improving the efficiency in the energy delivery system from generation to final consumption is a continuing issue of particular importance today. Arnold Alderman, PSMA Director and workshop co-chair stated, We are very pleased to offer this report to the industry. We were fortunate to have had such knowledgeable contributors sharing their expertise and perspectives for the entire realm of power. Anyone involved in the effort to improve efficiency will find this report to be very helpful.

Follow the Power provides the views of people with expertise in the areas of electric power generation, transmission, distribution and customer-side utilization, down to the IC level, under one roof, which was a remarkable achievement. The power network elements include:

* Power generation (traditional and alternative)
* Power transmission and distribution
* Power delivery at the facility and rack level
* Power delivery to the IC

The proliferation of functionally integrated hardware solutions is a move away from the power supply manufacturing use of discrete components to an increasing emphasis on power supply products employing integrated devices directly from the semiconductor and microelectronics industries. Advances in semiconductor, magnetic, capacitor and packaging materials and technologies that will deliver products operating at multi-MHz frequencies, are augmenting this trend. Such new miniaturized product formats are referred to as power supply-in-package (PSiP) and power supply-on-chip (PwrSoC).