Nextek Receives New UL Classification for Ballast Retrofit:Change Lets Customers Save by Switching to DC Ballasts
Nextek Power Systems Inc. has received a new Underwriters Laboratories classification that makes it possible to quickly and easily retrofit AC ballasts with safe, low-cost DC ballasts.
The new classification, UL 2108, replaces UL 1598. A team of Nextek engineers and employees authored the document, with guidance from UL regarding safety certification requirements for this innovative retrofit product. The classification and Nextek’s instructions make it easy for building owners and managers to switch out AC ballasts and replace them with DC ballasts, which can reduce the cost of operating luminaires significantly.
Usually, no other changes to the luminaires or the lamps are necessary to accommodate the DC ballasts.
Paul Savage, Nextek Power System’s CEO, said, “We believe our low voltage DC lighting ballasts are the most efficient dimming fluorescent ballasts in the world. Connecting them to our Direct Coupling® Power Server Module (PSM) makes the total system the most efficient commercially available anywhere.
Nextek manufactures ballasts and power supplies for multiple types of T8, T5, CFL and Biax lamps, Emergency Ballasts, and DC Ceiling Fans. All products are registered with the EMerge Alliance and compatible with that organization’s 24V DC Occupied Space standard.
To view the press release in its entirety, please see this article.
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John Gerzema: Edison Was Right
John Gerzema, author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Spend Shift, writes about Nextek Power Systems and the full circle that DC power is making in Detroit. See his entire article at PSFK.
Nextek CEO, Paul Savage, at the Table of Ideas
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Paul Savage Talks DC Microgrids at Tedx Detroit 2010
On September 29, 2010 the area’s leading creators, catalysts, entrepreneurs, artists, technologists, designers, scientists, thinkers and doers gathered at The Detroit Institute of Arts to share what they are most passionate about — positive ideas for the world from Detroit. Nextek CEO, Paul Savage, was one of those to speak.
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15 Reasons to Be Optimistic About America, and We’re One of Them!
Nextek Power Systems is featured in John Gerzema and Michael D’Antonio’s newly released book “Spend Shift“. The book is currently #2 on the Wall Street Journal’s best seller list (hard cover business). This morning Gerzema & D’Antonio were featured on the Huffington Post and included Nextek Power Systems in their “15 Reasons to Be Optimistic About America“.
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Nextek Featured in Businessweek
Bloomberg Businessweek recently featured Nextek Power’s CEO, Paul Savage: Direct Power’s New Best Friend.
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Nextek Featured in John Gerzema’s Latest Book
Along with John Gerzema, we are very pleased to announce the release of his latest book, Spend Shift: How The Post-Crisis Values Revolution is Changing The Way We Buy, Sell and Live.
Along with his partner Michael D’Antonio, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, they spent the last two years gathering data, and traveling through Red and Blue states to understand how the Great Recession has affected people’s lives. Americans are not defeated by the downturn but instead are proudly returning to bedrock American virtues—thrift, faith, self-reliance, community, hard work and more—in order to build new lives of purpose and connection.
People still buy, but they’ve shifted from mindless to mindful consumption. And their every purchase is less about materialism and more about voting for their values with their dollars. The result is the first on-the-ground report from the quiet revolution of values that is remaking the American economy and reshaping the global marketplace.
If you want to know more about Spend Shift, read the Interview in Inc. Magazine, watch a video-podcast discussion with Spend Shift’s Authors or support Spend Shift by purchasing it on Amazon.
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Nextek hopes to spark electronics revolution
Nextek is featured in the September 6, 2010 Crain’s Detroit Business. Click here to read the entire article.
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Nextek Featured on WDET 101.9 FM in Detroit
Our friend Toby Barlow was guest hosting on Detroit Public Radio recently and he interviewed Nextek CEO Paul Savage for 20 minutes at 10 am on August 10, 2010. The interview went great! Please take a listen!
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CoreNet Global Features Nextek Power Systems in Newsletter
In its July issue of Michigan Memo, The Michigan Chapter of CoreNet Global featured an article about alternative energy and energy efficiency in commercial real estate written by Nextek Power CEO, Paul Savage (see page 5). CoreNet Global is the world’s leading professional association for corporate real estate and workplace executives serving leading multinational companies from the Fortune and Global 1000. More than 7,000 members manage over $1.2-trillion in real estate and workplace assets in Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America and North America.
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Nextek CEO Co-Authors Paper for Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
The Yale school of Forestry & Environmental Studies is internationally known for its excellence. Founded in 1901, the school offers master’s degrees and doctoral programs and serves as a locus for research into local, regional and global environmental issues. Nextek Power Systems is pleased to share this paper co-authored by our CEO Paul Savage and former DOE and FERC General Counsel Bob Nordhaus about the wisdom found in DC micro-grids, published this month by the Yale school of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
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