VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 23, 2026--
VoltSafe Inc. has paved the path forward to global infrastructure modernization, transitioning the company from a technology development and market validation position to commercial deployment. Today, VoltSafe announced it has successfully completed safety certification testing for its award-winning marine shore power solution.
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More significantly, VoltSafe has achieved a world first: successfully passing safety certification testing for a high-power, prongless electrical connection system. The milestone validates years of engineering, intellectual property development, rigorous testing and collaboration with customers and industry partners, and positions VoltSafe to begin commercializing its technology across the marina market and, ultimately, a much broader range of global electrical infrastructure applications.
"This is the moment we've been building toward since founding VoltSafe,"stated Trevor Burgess, CEO & Co-Founder, VoltSafe. "We didn't set out to build another electrical product. We set out to fundamentally change how high-power electricity is connected, delivered and managed. With testing complete, we're ready to take our technology into the market at scale."
VoltSafe's initial focus is the marine market, representing an estimated $11.5 billion opportunity. It’s an industry ripe for modernization as aging electrical systems, evolving codes, smart energy demands, and electric boats reshape the docks. VoltSafe’s integrated platform combines patented magnetic connection technology, intelligent dockside hardware and cloud-based software to improve safety, increase revenues and reduce costs. Designed to evolve with the marina, the platform creates a foundation for AI-enabled energy management, predictive insights and recurring software revenue.
"Successfully completing certification testing provides a foundation for applying our platform to many applications where conventional electrical connections can limit safety, automation and electrification,"highlighted Sanad Aridah, CTO & Co-Founder, VoltSafe.
VoltSafe Technology addresses emerging requirements for safer, intelligent electrical connections across many markets including autonomous charging, robotics, defense, data centers, emergency service vehicles, aviation and other applications. Global electrical infrastructure is the opportunity.
About VoltSafe Inc.
VoltSafe is reinventing the electrical plug for the first time in more than 140 years, replacing prongs with patented magnetic technology and an “electrical fingerprint” to deliver safer, smarter power connections. Its platform spans marine, residential, commercial, industrial, EV and autonomous vehicles, emergency services and more.
VoltSafe is Commercializing a World-First Prongless, Smart Shore Power System for North America, with global expansion opportunities.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — More than a dozen words long used in Bermuda and across the Caribbean got an official nod on Wednesday from the Oxford English Dictionary.
First in line is “bimpert,” a Bermudian word of unknown origin that is used to describe a stupid or foolish person. People on the tiny island in the north Atlantic often use it in this traditional phrase: “A bimpert is justah wuffless bye,” which roughly translates to: an idiot is just a worthless boy.
Another colorful addition is “hornerman,” a word used in the eastern Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago since 1975 to describe an unfaithful man or a man having a relationship with someone else's partner.
If someone in the Caribbean were to find out about such infidelities, they might be known “to get on,” which means to have an emotional outburst or make a scene, or “to cut someone’s tail,” meaning to beat someone.
Depending on the fallout from such infidelities, a woman might need “vex money,” which refers to “money carried or kept in a safe place by a woman, for use in an emergency or in any unexpected eventuality.”
Among other dark words that made the list is “jablesse,” defined as "a malevolent shape-shifting female spirit with one cloven hoof, which at night is said to assume the form of a beautiful woman to lure men to their deaths.” It is derived from “diablesse,” the French word for female demon.
Another supernatural entry is “douen." It is “typically depicted as short in stature, with backward-pointing feet, and wearing a large hat, said to be the spirit of a child who died before it could be baptized, and believed to lure children into the forest by calling their names,” according to the dictionary. It is a variation of the Spanish word “duende,” which means elf.
Several food-related words were included this year: “shadeesh,” the Bermudian word for chorizo; “sugar cake,” made of grated coconut boiled with sugar, water and spices; and “peanut punch,” a wildly popular rich and frothy beverage made with peanuts or peanut butter, milk, sugar and several spices.
In the Caribbean, one might sit down to have a peanut punch with one’s “nana” or “nani,” which are used to address one’s maternal grandparents. In Bermuda, one would sit down to partake with a “hamma,” or friend.
The final Caribbean English words added this year are “Trinbagonian,” which refers to people from both the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, and “canboulay,” which refers to Carnival festivities in Trinidad in the 1800s that celebrated the emancipation of slaves. They stem from a 1700s harvest festival that the British tried to quash, leading to riots reenacted to this day to mark the start of Carnival. Canboulay is derived from “burning cane,” which the dictionary noted was associated with “acts of defiance and rebellion.”
There are some 500,000 words and phrases in the Oxford English Dictionary, which details the history of words, some of which go back to the 11th century.
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FILE - People with Trinidad and Tobago flag are seen during J'ouvert celebration, Sept. 4, 2023, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
