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The National Platform for Electric Mobility (NPE) presented its 2018 progress report to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. According to the report, the expansion of Germany’s charging infrastructure is making significant progress. Preliminary estimates suggest that there were some 12,500 charging points in Germany in December 2017. More recent estimates made by the Federal Association of the German Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) even assume that there are 13,500 publicly accessible char...
E.ON strengthens its cultural commitment in Berlin and once again supports the Festival of Lights, this time as an exclusive presenter. The internationally established artistic light event will take place from October 5th to October 14th and will, once again, amaze an audience of millions from all over the world. Light artists transform Berlin sights with multidimensional video technology into living works of art. Let’s Create a Better Tomorrow With E.ON’s support, the B...
Connecting the center and east Tibet power network in China, the Mangkang substation has successfully operated from 11th August 2018, as an essential milestone of the first 500kV substation in Tibet power grid. The Mangkang substation is 4,295 meters above sea level and is the highest altitude 500kV substation in the world. NR provides all-around solutions for the substation, including SCADA system, protection & control, measurement devices, stability control devices, switching controller,...
Increasing consumer demand for frozen food items continues to generate significant growth in cold storage capacity around the world. Harsh environmental conditions in these facilities are challenging for both workers and equipment, including forklifts. Besides exposure to extremely cold temperatures, forklifts are also subjected to damaging condensation that occurs as the trucks move in and out of refrigerated areas. special feature packages Since cold storage facilities are costly to operate...
A state-of-the-art bone cancer center at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital (RJAH) puts energy efficiency first, thanks to CP Electronics’ renowned Vitesse Plus standalone lighting control system. The Montgomery Unit at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital treats patients with bone and soft tissue sarcomas, bone metastases, benign bone and soft tissue tumors and tumor-like conditions. It is one of only five bone cancer centers in the UK and was launched a...
Good news for all travelers on the German motorway A3: At Autohof Strohofer in Geiselwind, between Würzburg and Nuremberg, electric cars can now charge without long waiting times at E.ON Drive's first ultra-fast charging station in Germany. Batteries of the latest generation of electric cars have a range of 400 kilometers after 20 minutes. By the end of the year, the charging stations are to be upgraded from 150 to 350 kilowatts, which will further accelerate the charging process for futur...
Advanced plant maintenance, packaged integrations, BI & Analytics, and open-source GIS, are the strong points of the new release. As the concept of workforce digitalization continues to grow and influences a greater number of businesses, FSM is shifting its proposition toward an even more connected world of possibilities, both for field and plant maintenance. The new release of Geocall will drive the clients into a comprehensive Field Service transformation, through a broad and deep a...
Aggreko has signed a multiyear agreement with GE’s Distributed Power business, to connect up to 10,000 assets to GE’s myPlant Asset Performance Management (APM) solution over the next five years. The project, the largest to date for GE’s Distributed Power myPlant offering, will be first deployed on-site during Q4 2018, and will provide a cloud-based monitoring and diagnostics infrastructure to remotely manage the performance of Aggreko’s fleet of mobile, modular power pl...
Construction at the Minnesota United Allianz Field in St. Paul has reached the halfway point. For Gephart’s part, rough-in is progressing on all levels of the stadium and a quarter of the 1,660 façade lighting fixtures have been installed. Color-changing lights These color-changing lights will provide the backlight encircling the stadium behind the PTFE fabric exterior. Over 50 Gephart electricians are working diligently on-site continuing to keep the project on time and...
Hardly a cloud in the sky. The sun is laughing. All over the country, from Schleswig-Holstein to Bavaria. According to figures from the Germany's Meteorological Service, the sun was shining for 817 hours in Germany from May to June 156 more than in the same period last year. By 2017, it had been 661 hours. Looking at the individual states of Germany, the sun was shining for example in Schleswig-Holstein for 909 hours, 275 hours more than in the same period last year. In sunny Bavaria, the sun...
Gephart Electric was recently awarded phase one of the renovation and expansion of the University of Memphis’ Murphy Athletic Complex. This project will renovate the existing space, which is utilized by the football team and other University of Memphis athletic teams, as well as prepare for phase two of the project which includes building an indoor practice facility for Tiger Football. This project has Gephart working alongside of valued client Turner Construction and expands on the...
CP Electronics, the provider of lighting control solutions in the UK, has signed up to exhibit at two seminars later this year. In conjunction with NICEIC and ELECSA, they will be at TechTalks in Edinburgh on the 23rd of August and Birmingham on the 6th of September. During the delegation seminar presentation, CP Electronics will focus on products across the range including green-i and Vitesse Plus. The Edinburgh event comes as CP Electronics has experienced rapid growth in Scotland, winning a...
Construction is currently underway at four recently awarded casino projects for a Gaming & Hospitality group. Gephart will be renovating three sportsbooks throughout NW Mississippi at Goldstrike, Sams Town and Harlows casinos. The fourth project will convert portions of the gaming floor into a poker room at the Four Winds South Bend casino, a new construction project that Gephart completed earlier in the year.
The Gephart-Morse joint venture, a design-assist electrical contractor for the Raiders Stadium project in Las Vegas, was recently awarded the Low Voltage Package by the Mortenson-McCarthy joint venture. Work will include Structured Cabling, A/V and Sound, IPTV, Broadcast, CCTV Surveillance, and Access Control Systems. This project further solidifies Gephart Low Voltage System’s footprint in the technology market building on the successful completion of other sports facility projects inclu...
innogy concluded two legally binding agreements – one with E.ON, another with RWE – on the planned integration of innogy into E.ON and the planned integration of innogy’s renewables business into RWE. The agreements call for the planned transaction to be implemented in a transparent process in which all employees will be treated fairly and as equally as possible, regardless of which company they currently work for. In addition, the integrations shall take into account the str...
Due to a successful partnership with Rawfield M & E, Ridings Consulting Engineers India Ltd., Eco Modular Buildings and CP Electronics, the Ark Byron Primary Academy School in North London has utilized modular plug-and-play electrical lighting installations, in order to help half its construction time from 6 months to 3 months. Ark Byron Primary Academy has built a new school to increase capacity. CP Electronics was called upon to provide a speedy delivery that complied with ESFA requiremen...
Industrial brakes and clutches could become a $1.7 billion market by 2024, mostly due to investment in industrial automation and the rise of smart factories. That’s according to Global Industry Analysts Inc. (GIA). The quickest-growing industries include those related to material handling, food and beverage, machine tools, and textiles. As with other technologies, the fastest rate of adoption is in the Asia-Pacific region with a CAGR of 8.4% for the clutch and brake market over the next s...
With the start of the last construction phase, the offshore wind project Arkona enters the home stretch. After only ten months of construction, the first of 60 wind turbines was successfully installed off the coast of Rügen in the German Baltic Sea. E.ON and Equinor's joint project is still ahead of schedule. Sea Challenger The turbines consist of a 100-meter-long tower, three rotor blades, and the turbine house. With a total weight of almost 1,000 tons, a turbine weighs as much as...
One of the main challenges in tape manufacturing is the round-the-clock regulation of web tension according to tape width and roll diameter. By applying an automated solution that continuously adapts to changing conditions, an aluminum tape manufacturer was able to upgrade its tension control system, increasing productivity and product quality. tension control Unwinding operations are indispensable in tape manufacturing. However, these can be extremely sensitive processes that can affect the...
E.ON SE successfully completed the sale of its 46.65 percent stake in Uniper SE to Fortum Corporation. All conditions for the completion of the voluntary public takeover offer have been met with the European Commission and the Russian Antimonopoly Authority having given merger control approvals, the transaction has been completed and closed. In total, E.ON received approximately €3.8 billion from the transaction for its remaining shares in Uniper. intelligent energy networks We...
The integration of the new SPACE1 release, the Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality solution developed by OverIT, with the innovative HMT-1 device by RealWear, led the two companies to this collaboration. Optimized FSM solutions RealWear®, the US company pioneer in hardware technology for industry, has built the first hands-free ruggedized head-mounted wearable computer for Connected Worker programs. RealWear collaborates only with pioneering software companies to prov...
Energy company E.ON and technology provider Vertiv are combining their know-how in the field of energy solutions for critical infrastructures. This gives customers from trade and industry the opportunity to modernize their energy infrastructure in such a way that they can generate additional revenues on the energy market in addition to secure self-sufficiency. The solution, which is based on battery systems, will be offered on the German market as a first step. Uninterruptible power supply In...
An innovative partnership between a Russian lighting company and CP Electronics, the UK‘s provider of lighting control solutions, brought a 50% saving in energy usage to a brand new warehouse in Tyumen, Russia. DEUS LLC and CP Electronics worked with the X5 Retail Group at its 30,000sqm distribution center, providing a lighting system that was fully compatible with DEUS’ own DALI control system. Flexible and adaptable lighting Previously, X5 Retail Group was struggling to control...
E.ON is moving into new orders of magnitude in the construction of solar parks on an industrial scale. In Texas, USA, the energy company is planning a solar park with a capacity of 100 megawatts (MW). Under a long-term power purchase agreement, E.ON has already sold the subscription rights from 50 MW of the plant for a period of 20 years. The customer is SK E&S, one of South Korea's largest energy companies. West of the Pecos West of the Pecos is scheduled to go online in 2020, E...
Recently, the first unit of Zungeru hydropower station in Nigeria was successfully commissioned and realized power generation, which laid a good foundation for the power generation of subsequent units. NR has designed hydropower unit protection solutions for the project and provided key equipment such as generator transformer unit protection and switchyard protection. Zungeru hydropower station is located in the middle and upper reaches of the Kaduna River near Zungeru Town, Niger, Nigeria. Wit...
On June 9th, 2018, a 500kV digital substation for the Bailing transmission and transformation project was successfully put into operation in Liangshan district, Sichuan, China. The Liangshan substation was the first 500kV digital substation commissioned by NR in the Liangshan district. all-around integrated solutions NR provided all-around integrated solutions for this substation, including network switches NR provided all-around integrated solutions for this substation, including intelligen...
NR is proud to announce the commissioning of India’s first 1 MW microgrid at the Central Electronics Limited (CEL) facility in Sahibadad, Uttar Pradesh, India. In over 10 years NR has deployed protection & control solutions around and pioneered the development of microgrid solutions. With the booming renewable energy integrated into India's power grid, it is a challenge to keep the stability of the power grid, due to renewable energy is not as stable as the traditional power supply. T...
On June 2nd, 2018, NR successfully commissioned two sets of 20 Mvar/13.8 kV Mobile Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) in Layla and Summan Area, which is the world’s first energized fully mobile STATCOM. Due to the large amount of induction-motor-based air conditioner load the power grid of Saudi Arabia suffers from severe voltage stability and FIDVR issues (fault-induced delayed voltage recovery). STATCOM is the most advanced technology to mitigate voltage stability problems. STATC...
Gephart Electric is proud to support the University of Memphis Herff College of Engineering by joining other industry partners to establish a new faculty position within the Civil Engineering Department, building the Construction Management Concentration. As a founder of this program, Gephart will offer guidance in determining the curriculum, as well as insight into hiring the faculty member to lead the program.
On May 25, 2018, Canada's 735 kV Chibougamau series compensation upgrade project undertaken by NR completed all field & commissioning tests without delay and successfully put into operation. Fundamentally, series compensators were installed in the 1990s in the Chibougamau Substation close to the James Bay Area by another supplier, its control and protection system has reached the end of its life span and the replacement of outdated spare parts is highly required. NR series compensators pro...