Power Integrations CEO to address International Standby Power Conference

Power Integrations’ Balu Balakrishnan, the company's president and CEO, has been invited to address the International Conference on Standby Power on April 3, 2008 in New Delhi, India. Organized and hosted by the Indian Bureau of Energy Efficiency and the International Energy Agency, the conference brings together policy makers, scientists, manufacturers and technology providers from around the world to discuss the status of ongoing efforts to limit standby usage.
Standby power, the power used when an electronic product is in its lowest-power mode, has been estimated to account for as much as ten percent of residential electricity consumption in OECD countries. In his presentation, Mr. Balakrishnan will address the importance of AC-DC power supply efficiency at light loads as a critical factor in reducing this waste. He will highlight innovations such as Power Integrations' EcoSmart technology, which utilizes multi-mode PWM and digital ON/OFF control schemes to provide extremely high, constant efficiency across a product's entire load range, including light loads.

"Even the most intelligently designed electronic products can be very wasteful if their power supplies are inefficient at light loads," said Mr. Balakrishnan. "Fortunately, thanks to innovations like our EcoSmart technology, high standby efficiency is available today at no incremental cost to the manufacturer or the consumer.

"Improving the efficiency of electronic products is low-hanging fruit in the increasingly urgent drive to reduce carbon emissions, and substantial savings are already being achieved," continued Balakrishnan. "The International Conference on Standby Power is a valuable forum for the global energy-efficiency community to share best practices and coalesce around standards and strategies in order to accelerate the savings."

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