Electrical Industry News for April 2023

Aggreko Provides Green Hybrid Energy Solution To Slync.io Dubai Desert Classic

Organizers of the Slync.io Dubai Desert Classic are highlighting the tournament’s commitment to environmental responsibility and shining the spotlight on all sustainable developments at the 2022 tournament that falls under four themes: waste, transport, energy, and legacy. It marks an important new initiative for the 33rd edition of the DP World Tour golf event, which runs from January 27-30 at Emirates Golf Club. Rolex Series tournament The US $8 million Rolex Series tournament will po...

Orcan Energy's Waste Heat Solutions Is The Second Most Installed ORC System Worldwide

Munich-based clean tech company - Orcan Energy has ranked as the second most used supplier worldwide for its waste heat solutions. This was the conclusion of an industry analysis by the Energy Engineering Department of the Politecnico di Milano, recently published at the 6th International ORC Conference in Munich, which compared 30 companies offering ORC-based waste heat recovery technologies. waste heat solutions As such, Orcan Energy has left industry giants such as Enogia, Dürr, and T...

Aggreko Announces The Middle East's Largest Flare Gas To Power Project Now Fully Operational

Aggreko is proud to announce it has completed the commissioning of the largest flare gas-to-power project in the Middle East to date at 165 MW capacity. The plant is situated nearby the Saqala Field, Garmain block, South East Kurdistan. The 165 MW modular power plant has run at full capacity for 72 hours in the project’s final site acceptance test (SAT), marking successful on-time, on-budget delivery. CO2 savings  The plant is run on approximately 40 million square cubic feet (SCF)...

Response To UK Government Appointment Of Ofgem As Great Britain Heat Networks Regulator

The UK Government has announced it has appointed Ofgem as the heat networks regulator for Great Britain to ensure consumers receive a fair price and reliable supply of heat, as we make the transition to net zero. The appointment was announced as part of the UK Government’s plan to further expand Great Britain’s network of low-carbon heating. Heat networks Jonathan Brearley, the Chief Executive of Ofgem, said, “We welcome the Government’s announcement that it will appoi...

IEA Executive Director Meets US Energy Secretary In Washington To Prepare For Upcoming IEA Ministerial

IEA Executive Director, Fatih Birol met with US Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm and other key leaders, during a three-day visit to Washington, in order to prepare for the Agency’s upcoming 2022 Ministerial Meeting and to discuss recent efforts to accelerate clean energy transitions. clean energy and climate The Ministerial will set IEA’s work as it strengthens its leadership role in clean energy transitions Energy Secretary - Jennifer Granholm will chair the IEA Ministerial on...

International Energy Agency (IEA) Unveils Energy Efficiency Hub To Boost Cooperation On World’s ‘First Fuel’

The IEA will host a platform through which 16 governments will share best practices on policy, regulations and implementation. The Energy Efficiency Hub, a global platform for collaboration aimed at delivering the social, economic, and environmental benefits of more efficient use of energy, was launched on 1 December 2021, at an event hosted by the International Energy Agency in Paris, France.   The Hub’s initial 16 members are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, D...

Aggreko Helps Molly Olly's Raise Money At Charity Golf Day

For the past four years, Aggreko has supported Warwick-based children’s charity Molly Olly’s by raising funds at its annual charity golf day.  At the event, more than £22,000 was raised. The Charity helps support children with terminal or life-limiting illnesses and their families and was set up by Rachel and Tim Ollerenshaw in 2011 after their daughter Molly died from rare kidney cancer. signed golf bags Together the bags raised £500 for Molly Olly’s, the averag...

Aggreko's Energy Survey Shows Hybrid Power Is Key To The Energy Transition

Aggreko, the global provider of mobile, modular energy solutions, has conducted an industry-wide survey with 859 participants to understand what the energy market will look like in the next decade. Survey details  The survey, conducted in October 2021, highlights that the shift to renewables will be a transition rather than an overnight change, with 83% of respondents believing fossil fuels will still have a role to play in the energy mix for the next 10 years. These fuels will work alon...

Ofgem Protects Customers Of Bluegreen Energy Services Limited

Bluegreen Energy Services Limited has announced they are ceasing to trade. Bluegreen Energy supplies around 5,900 domestic customers and a small number of non-domestic customers.   Under Ofgem’s safety net, customers’ energy supply will continue and funds that domestic customers have paid into their accounts will be protected, where they are in credit. Domestic customers will also be protected by the energy price cap when being switched to a new supplier. Things to do Custome...

Schumacher Electric Corporation Launches Rugged Lithium Ion Jump Starter

Schumacher Electric Corporation, the global pioneer of automotive aftermarket power conversion products, has introduced its new Rugged Lithium Ion Jump Starter series to the United States and European markets. Available in 1000, 1500, 2000, and 2500 peak amps, these jump starters are powerful, portable, and compact, and can safely start a dead battery in seconds. The line will be available online and in select retailers. pre-heating technology Lithium jump starter multi-use design that includ...

Aggreko Partners With TEDxGlasgow Ahead Of COP26

Aggreko, the global pioneer in mobile and modular energy solutions, is partnering with TEDxGlasgow, the grassroots initiative created in the spirit of TED’s overall mission to research and discover ideas worth spreading. systematic change Aggreko is a Principal Partner for TEDxGlasgow which aims to bring about systematic change Aggreko, which is Glasgow headquartered, is a Principal Partner for TEDxGlasgow which aims to put a spotlight on the best ideas across Scotland and amplify them...

Ecotricity Launches Save Boilers

Ecotricity began with a mission to replace electricity made by burning fossil fuels with green energy. It succeeded and aims to replace fossil fuel natural gas with sustainable green gas. Ecotricity launched its latest campaign with the Daily Express, it’s a campaign to save its gas boilers from the government. And they plan to replace them all with heat pumps. carbon zero for heating homes Ecotricity founder, Dale Vince, explains how users can go carbon zero for heating homes quicker a...

Ofgem Appoints EDF To Take On Customers Of Utility Point

Ofgem has appointed EDF to take on supplying Utility Point’s approximately 220,000 domestic customers. This follows a competitive process run by Ofgem to get the best deal possible for customers. EDF is offering customers a competitive tariff. Outstanding credit balances, including money owed to both existing and former customers of Utility Point, will also be honored. For existing Utility Point customers, energy supplies will continue as normal as they switch over to EDF on 18 Septe...

E.ON Intends To Reduce The Emissions And Become Climate-Neutral By 2040

“We welcome Ursula von der Leyen's initiative to reduce greenhouse emissions within the EU by 55 percent by 2030. The EU is thus demonstrating its leading role within the international community and is clearly committed to the Paris Agreement in 2015.” With these words, Johannes Teyssen, CEO of the Essen-based energy company, E.ON, comments on the plans of the EU Commission to tighten the EU's climate targets. With its more than 1.5 million kilometers of European energy network, E.O...

Attila Kiss Becomes CEO Of E.ON Businesses In Hungary

Attila Kiss, the CEO of E.ON Hungária Zrt. will at the same time fulfill the role of CEO for all businesses and activities of E.ON in Hungary from October 11, 2019, with immediate effect. Thomas König, member of the E.ON SE board and chairman of E.ON Hungária Zrt. Supervisory Board, announced with great pleasure, that Attila Kiss, who is the current CEO of E.ON Hungária Zrt., was nominated and appointed with immediate effect to fulfill the role of CEO for all busin...

E.ON Presents The 15th Festival Of Lights In Berlin

E.ON confirms its cultural commitment in Berlin and once again supports the Festival of Lights as an exclusive presenter. The internationally established light art event will take place from October 11 - 20th, and will once again inspire millions of visitors from all over the world. Light artists will transform Berlin's sites into living works of art with multi-dimensional video technology. international street art challenge "Free your Energy" will be attended by renowned artists from all fou...

E.ON Has Announced The Construction Of A New Wind Farm In The USA

E.ON has announced the construction of a new wind farm in the USA. With the 150-megawatt project Boiling Springs, E.ON starts its first wind project in Oklahoma. Solar energy projects The Honda automotive group has secured all its energy from Boiling Springs under an electricity supply contract. Honda will purchase renewable energy for car production at the US plants in Ohio and Alabama. Construction of the 150-megawatt project will begin in early 2020 and be completed by the end of the year....

ATCO Offers A Look At The Company’s Fort Chipewyan Project, Canada’s Largest Off-grid Solar And Storage Community

Providing the customers with sustainable energy solutions is incredibly important to ATCO (ATCO Electric), wherever they may be located. They serve many communities located hundreds of kilometers from the main electrical grid, over a vast geographic area in northern Alberta and Canada’s North – communities that have relied on costly and carbon-intensive isolated diesel-powered generation for decades. In 2017, ATCO initiated a program to interconnect these communities to the grid, w...

United Electric Controls Demonstrates WirelessHART Gas Leak Detection For Emissions Regulatory Compliance At Gastech 2019

United Electric Controls, a producer of safety, alarm and shutdown technology, is demonstrating at Gastech a wireless gas detector that can facilitate compliance by reducing the cost of adding leak monitoring points by more than 50%. The Vanguard gas detector communicates using WirelessHART technology, which is currently the industry’s dominant non-proprietary wireless communication protocol.  WirelessHART makes it easier for the Vanguard and other in-network WirelessHART devices (e...

Only 16 Percent Of Germans Would Buy An Electric Car

Only 16 percent of Germans planning to buy a car would opt for an electric car. In Europe, only the Czechs are more skeptical, with only 13 percent of them able to imagine an electric drive for their next car.  This is the result of a current, representative survey by E.ON and KantarEMNID. Interest in electric cars is highest in Romania and Italy. Here, 36 percent would like to drive their next car electrically. diesel engines Only in Turkey would almost half of those surveyed, 44 pe...

Infinitum Electric Adds Three Industry Heavyweights To Support Rapid Growth

Infinitum Electric, a motor technology company leveraging its patented printed circuit board stator innovations to deliver the world’s most efficient and durable IoT-enabled electric motors for size, weight, and cost, has announced three senior executive appointments today. Michael Gray joins the company as Senior Vice President of Supply Chain and Manufacturing, alongside Paulo Guedes-Pinto as Vice President of Technology and Tracy Gill as Director of Engineering. Gray, Guedes-Pinto, and...

Beznau Nuclear Power Plant: Scheduled Outage Of Unit 2

The Beznau nuclear power plant (KKB) will take Unit 2 off-grid as scheduled on 10 August 2019, to perform inspection work and refueling. The work will take about 40 days. This marks the end of a malfunction-free operating cycle of about 400 days, which began on 9 July 2018. The focus of work includes maintenance, recurring tests, and inspections. Integral system tests and pressure tests will also be carried out as usual. Of the 121 fuel elements, 20 will be replaced with new elements and inst...

E.ON Applies For Digital Patent For Full Customer Data Control

Data is the currency of the future. At present, however, only companies in the global digital industry are benefiting from this. Engineers at the E.ON Future Lab have developed an innovation that puts customers on the winning side: they also benefit when their data is used and gain better control over the analytics of this data. E.ON has registered the unique IT system for a patent. The European Patent Office has made the patent application public. data analytics Highly secure encryption...

The E.ON Network Operator Schleswig-Holstein Netz (SH Netz) Is Making The Power Supply On The Island

Just in time for the holiday season there is good news for Sylt lovers: The E.ON network operator Schleswig-Holstein Netz (SH Netz) is making the power supply on the island even safer and has now begun laying a submarine cable from the mainland to Sylt. The last remaining overhead line on the island will be replaced by a cable, which is about 15 kilometers long and weighs 800 tons. High-voltage cables SH Netz currently operates three high-voltage cables to supply the island of Sylt. The new s...

Barbara Schädler To Leave E.ON For New Professional Challenge

Barbara Schädler, Executive Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs, will leave E.ON on September 30, 2019, to take on a new professional challenge. E.ON will announce her successor shortly.  CEO comments  Together with my colleagues on the E.ON Board of Management, I wish her all the best" "In her three and a half years at E.ON, Barbara Schädler has significantly enhanced the company‘s public reputation as well as employee involvement," E.ON CEO Johanne...

The Employers' Associations Have Agreed On A Comprehensive Collective Agreement For The Employees Of The E.ON

The employers' associations and the trade unions, ver.di and IGBCE, have agreed on a comprehensive collective agreement for ‘Future and job security’ for the employees of the new E.ON in Germany. The agreement is an important step in implementing the ‘Collective Policy Statement’ on the planned transaction between E.ON and RWE agreed between the company and the unions in May 2018. Among other things, it includes provisions on attractive severance payments for employees l...

FAKT AG And E.ON Develop Major Project In Hungary

Essen-based companies FAKT AG and E.ON are planning to create a European ecological, agricultural, and economic center in Hungary. FAKT AG is planning a combination of agriculture, logistics, and housing on an area of land equal in size to almost 500 football pitches. E.ON will develop, implement and operate the sustainable energy infrastructure for electricity, heating, and cooling for this major project in the tri-border region between Hungary, Austria, and Slovakia. greenhouse facilitie...

ATCO Monitors Electric Lines During Northern Alberta Wildfires

A number of out-of-control wildfires are currently burning in northern Alberta. As a result of the fires power lines servicing these communities have been damaged, and this critical infrastructure continues to be under threat.  ATCO is continuing to monitor the situation closely, and its employees and contractors are working diligently and safely to replace damaged infrastructure and ensure that its customers continue to have access to the reliable electricity service they rely on.  ...

E.ON Plans To Commission 2500 Digital Transformer Stations In The Service Areas Of Avacon, Bayernwerk, E.DIS And Hansewerk

E.ON plans to commission 2500 digital transformer stations in the service areas of its four German distribution grid operators – Avacon, Bayernwerk, E.DIS, and Hansewerk – by the end of 2019. Starting this year, E.ON will solely install digital transformer stations in Germany. This way, the smart grid is quite naturally being integrated into E.ON’s distribution grids. Digital transformer stations With these transformer stations as the centerpiece of the smart grid, it is pos...

UEC's Vanguard WirelessHART Gas Detector Version 1.2 Features Magnetic Option For Installation On I-Beams Without Drilling

United Electric Controls, a producer of safety, alarm, and shutdown technology, has announced that it has added carbon monoxide (CO) to the list of gases detected by the latest Vanguard WirelessHART Gas Detector. Vanguard version 1.2 also includes new mounting flexibility and a variety of other features that enhance installation, configurability, and maintainability. CO detection Our latest Vanguard release makes it easier for users to enjoy the benefits of wireless detection" “Carbon...

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