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In this paper we investigate the relations between spanners, weak spanners, and power spanners in R^D for any dimension D and apply our results to topology control in wireless networks. For c@?R, a c-spanner is a subgraph of the complete Euclidean graph satisfying the condition that between any two vertices there exists a path of length at most c-times their Euclidean distance. Based on this ability to approximate the complete Euclidean graph, sparse spanners have found many applications, e.g., in FPTAS, geometric searching, and radio networks. In a weak c-spanner, this path may be arbitrarily long, but must remain within a disk or sphere of radius c-times the Euclidean distance between the vertices. Finally in a c-power spanner, the total energy consumed on such a path, where the energy is given by the sum of the squares of the edge lengths on this path, must be at most c-times the square of the Euclidean distance of the direct edge or communication link. While it is known that any c-spanner is also both a weak C"1-spanner and a C"2-power spanner for appropriate C"1, C"2 depending only on c but not on the graph under consideration, we show that the converse is not true: there exists a family of c"1-power spanners that are not weak C-spanners and also a family of weak c"2-spanners that are not C-spanners for any fixed C. However a main result of this paper reveals that any weak c-spanner is also a C-power spanner for an appropriate constant C. We further generalize the latter notion by considering (c,@d)-power spanners where the sum of the @dth powers of the lengths has to be bounded; so (c,2)-power spanners coincide with the usual power spanners and (c,1)-power spanners are classical spanners. Interestingly, these (c,@d)-power spanners form a strict hierarchy where the above results still hold for any @d=D some even hold for @d1 while counter-examples exist for @d@d is not a (C,@d)-power spanner for any fixed C, in general. Finally, we consider the sparsified Yao-graph (SparsY-graph or YY) that is a well-known sparse topology for wireless networks. We prove that all SparsY-graphs are weak c-spanners for a constant c and hence they allow us to approximate energy-optimal wireless networks by a constant factor.