Concerns about the quality of power. But stories of brownouts, blackouts and surges are raising questions about the reliability and quality of the electricity powering electronic devices. Emerging markets for distributed power. Concerns about adequate supplies of electricity have sparked the notion of distributed power, which means having lots of small or even individual generators rather than one huge central generating station. To connect those small generators to their users takes the sort of equipment Xantrex companies make.
Consolidation is both an opportunity and a necessity.
Umedaly says the immediate goals are integrating Xantrex's acquisitions into one company. P-I columnist Bill Virgin . His column appears Mondays and Wednesdays.