United States of America (USA) Electrical Industry News

The finalists of the 32nd annual Plant Engineering Product of the Year awards stretched across 13 categories. This program honors the best innovations of 2019, as voted by the audience of Plant Engineering. The Grand Award—given to the new product that received the highest number of votes among all 13 categories—is presented to TrendMiner for the TrendMiner 2019 R.3, originally in the Plant Analytics & Design category of the competition. The Grand Award, and...

A European motor manufacturer needed a very small, lightweight brake for integration into an electric window shade system for luxury business jets. The system allows passengers or crew to raise and lower shades on one or all windows simultaneously on the aircraft with a push of a button. braking solution Warner engineers decided to develop a completely new brake range to meet the challenging reduced weight The brakes are mounted directly to the back of the electric motors to hold the window...

Pt.NR Electric Jakarta (NR Jakarta), the Indonesian subsidiary of NR Electric, has successfully passed the ISO9001, ISO14001 and ISO45001 management system certifications. This milestone is a solid step in implementing NR's high-quality localization strategy in the Indonesian market. Since being established in 2012, NR Jakarta committed to serving the local society and creating value for customers. With the support of NR Nanjing Headquarters, NR Jakarta has actively implemented the localization...

Luminus Devices announces the immediate availability of its newest UVC LED, the XBT-3535, with performance ranging from 50 mW to 80 mW in the 275-285 nm range. UVC LEDs With the global need for disinfection and sterilization devices increasing, the price-performance combination of the XBT-3535 will allow companies to quickly bring novel and affordable solutions to market.  The germicidal effectiveness of UVC LEDs against E-coli, MRSA, and a variety of pathogens has been well documented....

Viessmann's energy monitoring system is being supplemented by intelligent control and prioritization of solar power. Viessmann customers can both optimize their electricity consumption and intelligently control excess electricity, e.g. for charging electric cars. Viessmann gridBox In cooperation with Viessmann, the young company gridX has developed an energy dashboard that can be used to visualize and control energy flows. The corresponding communication gateway - the Viessmann gridBox - c...

On the morning of 21 February 2020, President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique went to the Marrupa district to attend the completion ceremony of the Cuamba-Marrupa power line and Marrupa substation. Ernesto Tonela, Minister of Mining and Energy, and Aly Sicola Impija, CEO of an electric power company also attended the ceremony. After visiting the substation, President Nyusi highly praised the achievements and thanked for the contribution from NR Electric, who worked as an EPC company for this project...

On 27th March, 2020, the first overflow tank was successfully hoisted and placed in position in the trough-type power generation area No.1 of the Dubai Solar Power Project. This is the first move made by the Dubai project team in large equipment installation against the pandemic crisis. Nine overflow tanks will be installed as key containers in the project's heat transfer oil system. Measuring 52 m long and over 200 tons, the tank has been the largest single unit for delivery in the project. A...

After more than a month of energy supply in corona crisis mode, E.ON’s initial interim assessment is positive. The power, gas, and heat networks that E.ON uses to secure the energy supply in large parts of Europe are running stably, even in this difficult operational mode. Among the roughly 14,000 employees whom E.ON has defined as critical personnel for secure network operations and placed under special protection, there are virtually no infected individuals. Pandemic and crisis plans...

Gephart Low Voltage Systems has recently been awarded several new projects including: Daikin Industries Faribault, Plymouth & Owatonna Locations Daikin Industries, an innovator and provider of air conditioning solutions, has selected Gephart LVS for its expansion efforts in three locations. The Plymouth buildout will help support their corporate growth, and the $40.3 million Faribault project involves converting a 300,000 SF warehouse into a state-of-the-art production facility. A third...

As work continues on the 343,000 SF, 11-story 10 West Office Building project, Gephart was subsequently awarded the CarVal Tennant Improvement project.  CarVal will occupy the entire 10th floor of the building and they will continue to work alongside Ryan Companies.

Gephart is pleased to announce we have been awarded the Cherokee Sportsbook and Poker Room project. The project includes renovating approximately 37,000 SF of the existing gaming floor into a new sportsbook and poker room. This will be Gephart's second project on this property with The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company and its local partner, Cherokee Electric. Gephart is also onsite working on the 660,000 SF expansion featuring a 20-story, 725-room high-rise hotel tower, and approximately 200,...

The first large-scale alpine solar plant in Switzerland can be built. The relevant authorities have approved the building application. Due to new findings, the plant design will be slightly adapted. Axpo plans to build the plant on the Muttsee dam in the summer of 2021. The Canton of Glarus has approved the construction of the 2-megawatt solar plant on the Muttsee dam. The Glarus South municipality and the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) were also involved in the approval procedure and...

On January 31, 2020, the first digital substation integrated with NR PCS-S products was officially put into commercial operation in Concordia, Ecuador. The project integrates NR Electric’s latest generation of protection & control products, including PCS-931S Line Differential Relay, PCS-915S Busbar Relay, PCS-221S Merging Unit and PCS-9700 SCADA system etc. Interconnection of large power grid in Western Ecuador The project adopts IEC62439 (PRP) and IEC61850 Ed2 communication protoc...

E.ON and Kraken Technologies, part of Octopus Energy Group, announce they have entered a strategic agreement regarding E.ON’s UK residential and SME energy retail businesses. This is the culmination of many months work, and in spite of the unprecedented challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, it underlines E.ON’s long-term commitment to the UK and to providing excellent service to customers. As part of the partnership, E.ON will establish the subsidiary E.ONnext. E.ONnext will use...

Against the backdrop of the spreading COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and the current rules prohibiting attendance at large meetings, the Board of Management of E.ON SE has decided to postpone the Annual Shareholders Meeting scheduled for May 13, 2020, until mid-June. The exact date will be announced at a later date. The postponement of the Annual Shareholders Meeting will also lead to a postponed payment of the proposed dividend of €0.46 per share. Unlikely situation E.ON expressly supports the...

A large European conveyor OEM needed a reliable clutch solution for its custom-designed automated order picking/dispensing systems installed in warehouses and distribution centers. The multi-level, high-speed systems can pick 7,500 cases per hour. Each system features multiple buffer lanes of roller conveyors that utilize a stopper bar to hold items in the queue. Clutches are installed on the electric motors that raise and lower the stopper bars on each lane to release individual items in the c...

CP Electronics has just launched Vitesse Plus Hardwired, the next step in the evolution of energy control. Vitesse Plus Hardwired is a new family of lighting control systems (LCMs) that have been specifically designed to make commissioning fast, simple, and effective. At its heart, Vitesse Plus Hardwired is a 6 channel LCM that provides dimming and switching capabilities via powerful pre-designed configurations. simple to install, easy to connect Vitesse Plus offers a wide range of built-in f...

Autonomous agricultural vehicles promise to increase productivity in farming, which is pushing rapid development of the technology. With multiple OEMs testing or delivering autonomous vehicles to market, new powertrain solutions are required to provide optimal application performance for the many classes of new vehicles. Altra Industrial Motion Corp., a global power transmission expert, offers a suite of innovative solutions designed to meet the needs of each vehicle requirement. Needs of the...

By 2021, Axpo's subsidiary Urbasolar will build three solar plants in France to produce solar power for the Paris airports. The plants will cover around 10 percent of the electricity needed by the airports Charles de Gaulle, Orly, and Le Bourget. solar modules The three plants will be located in the French departments of Gard, Var, and Charente. Urbasolar will install solar modules with a total capacity of 40 megawatts on an area of 40 hectares. The plants will produce around 47-gigawatt ho...

E.ON relies on geothermal energy for climate protection. In Malmö, Sweden, the company plans to build a geothermal deep-heat power plant. The boreholes will be drilled five to seven kilometers deep into the ground. The expected maximum temperature of 160 degrees Celsius will be sufficient to feed the heat directly into Malmö’s district heating network. The pilot project is one of Europe’s first geothermal power plants to extract geothermal energy from depths of several kil...

H2Ouest, led by Lhyfe, SyDEV, Vendée Energie, Vendée Hydrogène, Le Mans Métropole and ACO, aims to deploy a completely green hydrogen fuel chain in Pays de la Loire from 2021. Lhyfe is proud to announce that the joint H2Ouest project – proposed in conjunction with five partners in Pays de la Loire – is one of ten French projects selected by the French Environment and Energy Management agency (ADEME) in January 2020, in its second call for hydrogen mobilit...

E.ON subsidiary Schleswig-Holstein Netz (SH Netz), the grid company of Stadtwerke Kiel AG (SWKiel Netz GmbH), and the transmission system operator TenneT announced the practical test for the “Energy Network of the Future” from 2020 in the district of Steinburg in Schleswig-Holstein. Energy Cosmos ENSURE The innovative “Energy Cosmos ENSURE” is the result of the research project entitled ENSURE – Neue EnergieNetzStruktURen für die Energiewende (new energy netw...

Aggreko, the global provider of mobile, modular power, temperature control, and energy services, has achieved a milestone of 3000 LTI-free days at its depot in Chennai, India, in February 2020.  ISO accredited depot The 100,000 sq. ft, ISO 9001:2015 accredited depot serves industrialized Chennai and southern states of India. Equipment available from the depot includes mobile and modular power solutions such as generators and load banks, as well as cooling equipment inc...

Havells India Limited, a technology-led Fast-Moving Electrical Goods (FMEG) and Consumer Durable company launches, the country’s first intelligent Fan – Carnesia-I with smart mode. The new fan is one of the most technologically advanced - IoT fan that will add convenience and comfort to consumer’s fast-paced life. The intelligent fan range comes at an attractive consumer price of approx. Rs 4500. Offering unique features Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Ravindra Singh Negi, Pre...

Aggreko plc, the provider of mobile, modular power, is working with RE Power Group to produce electricity from clean biogas for a facility in Thailand. Aggreko is delivering 6 MW of biogas-fuelled generator power, providing a flexible, fast, and cost-efficient way of successfully scaling up the biogas project and delivering cleaner energy for the facility and the wider region. dual feedstock anaerobic digester The site’s biogas generation gets its feedstock from a tapioca factory....

E.ON has been identified as a pioneer for engaging in its supply chain and as energy supplier on climate change, being awarded a position on the Supplier Engagement Leaderboard by global environmental impact non-profit CDP. E.ON has been recognized for its actions and strategies to reduce emissions and manage climate risks in its supply chain in the past reporting year. Over 4,800 companies in total were assessed by CDP and given a Supplier Engagement Rating, based on answers to selected q...

The establishment of a dense public network of ultra-fast e-vehicle charging stations can be realized much faster than previously assumed. E.ON and Volkswagen Group Components are giving a new impetus with the prototype of a new, flexible ultra-fast charging station that will be presented in Essen. By integrating a battery system, it will be possible to install ultra-fast charging stations almost anywhere and at a significantly lower cost without civil engineering or mains connection. new...

Warner Electric, a major global manufacturer of mammography systems, contacted Altra Motion for braking solutions it needed for various applications within its machines. Altra worked closely with the OEM engineering team to identify and confirm the torque requirements and space limitations of each different brake application. All the brakes required reliable holding performance throughout the machine to ensure accurate mammography imaging. 4PMB-055 permanent magnet brakes Based on the detaile...

Jenkins received a failed electric motor from a manufacturing customer that was the result of a melted polypropylene fan. This specific motor operated in an enclosed space, leaving little variability in temperature and resulting in the motor overheating. The fan melted around the shaft, causing the motor to lock up, the bearings to fail and forcibly damaging the winding. Because Jenkins has extensive motor cooling experience, our team quickly concluded a more durable material was needed for thi...

DENSO Corporation expresses its deepest sympathy to all those who have been affected by the outbreak of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. DENSO Group companies including DENSO (CHINA) INVESTMENT are donating a million CNY (approximately US$145,000) through the Red Cross Society of China to support the recovery.