From Oppenheimer to the Energy Transition

Kepco Inc. of Flushing, New York designs and manufactures power supplies for industries that include offshore wind and solar power. As Mark Kupferberg, a Kepco owner, explains, the company was founded in 1946 by family members with connections to Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project.    

Today, Kepco serves military and civilian markets and makes power supplies that do more than supply electric power to an electric load. That’s because this New York State manufacturer specializes, as Kuperberg says, in "breaking bottlenecks" that slow down labor-intensive electronic testing.  

As listeners to this episode of New York State Manufacturing Now will learn, Kepco also makes power supplies that regenerate power instead of just dissipating energy as heat, a feat that reduces costs and cooling requirements. With products that make less electronic noise, Kepco also provided the "secret sauce" to a Nobel Prize winner in Physics.