Press Releases

Nextek Power Systems Adds Ultra Efficient Ceiling Fans to Lighting Products in its Solar-Ready Systems
March 30, 2009 Detroit, Michigan
Nextek Power Systems, Inc. announces the acquisition of RCH Fanworks, the leading DC ceiling fan company. "The market for Direct Current (DC) powered appliances of every sort has been growing rapidly for high effiency buildings, and solar photovoltaic installations..." Read More...


EMerge Alliance Launched to Create a New Standard for Power Distribution and Device Control in Commercial Buildings
New, Broad-Based Consortium Assembling Expertise in Architecture, Engineering and Construction Practices to Establish a Common Platform for Building Interiors of the Future

SAN RAMON, Calif.--In a move aimed at increasing the flexibility, efficiency and sustainability of commercial buildings, a group of visionaries today are announcing the EMerge Alliance. The Alliance will lead the creation and deployment of a new power, control and device-level technology standard for commercial interiors, developed around the use of safe, low-voltage direct-current (DC) power. Founding Members of the Alliance at the Governing level include Armstrong World Industries, Johnson Controls, Nextek Power Systems, OSRAM SYLVANIA and WAVE. For more information check out this video interview with the EMerge Chairman, Mr. Brian Patterson during the Green Building Power Forum conference. Read More...

CEO to keynote IEEE conference

Paul Savage Explains Nextek's Breakthrough Technology
to Industry and Government Leaders.

Clinton Global Initiative announces that Nextek will provide systems to schools in Africa.
Nextek will design, build, test and install a solar-assisted lighting system for the Moringe Sokoine Secondary School, a secondary school in Monduli, Tanzania. Using this solar-assisted lighting system as a model, Nextek will do the same with local partners in 10 schools across the country. In neighboring Rwanda, a school will be selected for such a system which Nextek will again design, build, test and install. Read Article.

• President Clinton was given a personal tour of NextEnergy by Paul Savage, Nextek CEO, Jim Croce, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and other Michigan leaders to assess Michigan's alternative energy industry.
• Current affairs - distributed generation microgrids must be predominantly DC to succeed.
  Users of a microgrid - a system that supplies and manages power for a physical entity such as a store or factory - would be better off if most of the power used was direct current (DC) electricity generated locally, argues Paul Savage. Read Article
• Technologies that push the envelope of the plausible capture our curiosity almost as quickly as the crackpots who dare to concoct them become targets of our derision. Read More
• How Feed-In Tariffs Inhibit the Efficiency of Distributed Generation (DG)
• Nextek power systems' new solar power application approaches 100% efficiency for the town of Hempstead.
• At the edge of the Grid, Mark Robinson
• Rockford Lutheran High School Solar Panels PV System
• Nextek Introduces Hybrid Vehicle Interconnect at SAE 2006
• Interview with Paul Savage (Audio MP3 file)
• GreenSource First Solution California's Perfect Electric Storm Waiting to Happen!
• WCEMC Conference Presentation 6/2005: Enhancing Reliability and Efficiency Using Locally Generated DC Power The Hybrid Building.
• Photovoltaics: Distributed Generation or Energy Efficiency?
• The Energy Pulse: The NY Blackout: What would Edison Do?
• The Energy Pulse: Hybrid Cars Today, Hybrid Buildings Tomorrow
• Analysis: How Direct Coupling Improves the ROI of PV (PDF)
• Improving ROI in Solar PV with NEXTEK's Direct Coupling Technology
• Battery Load Management with the NEXTEK Power Module
• Values and Methods of Integration Distributed Generation at its Best
• Paul Savage featured on CNNmoney.com
• Re-Inventing the Grid With Your iPhone