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BAE Systems. has been selected by GE Aviation to provide energy management solutions for the recently announced hybrid-electric technology demonstrator program. As part of the NASA research project, BAE Systems will design, test, and supply energy management components for electric aircraft in the megawatt power class. hybrid electric flight technologies NASA’s EPFD project includes ground and flight-test demonstrations to be conducted over the next five years NASA’s Electrified...

Schumacher Electric Corporation, a global pioneer in the design, manufacture, and distribution of power conversion products announced Lincolnshire Management, Inc., a private equity firm focused on investing in and acquiring growing middle market companies, has completed the sale of Schumacher Electric to private investment firm Ripple Industries LLC.  The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The announcement was made via a live stream all-employee meeting where Mickey Le...

Last week, the federal organization responsible for managing the electric grid announced the results of a power capacity auction that will increase capacity prices and may leave parts of Illinois short of the power needed to meet customer demand during extreme temperatures this summer. The Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) said that renewable generation – solar and wind – has not kept pace with the generation capacity lost as fossil fuel plants have retired, leaving...

Ingeteam will be present as an exhibitor at the fair for the renewable energy sector, to showcase its latest products and services directed at the solar PV, battery storage, green hydrogen, and electric mobility sectors. 2022's edition of the smarter Europe fair is to be held at the Messe München Exhibition Centre in Munich, from May 11-13. Ingeteam is preparing some special celebrations for its 50th anniversary. Ingeteam's products on display INGECON SUN 3Power C series At its 240 m2 b...

A new dynamic solution by E.ON is set to revolutionize European home developments by dynamically managing energy import and export and ensuring local network capacities are not exceeded. The “dynamic solution” developed by E.ON Group Innovation is a live, locally controlled, smart management system which balances electricity supply and demand on local networks using steering technology. The system maximizes the collective self-consumption of on-site renewable generation –...

RWE has signed an agreement with the Danish grid operator - Energinet for its Thor Offshore Wind Farm. The agreement regulates the technical set-up, the power quality, and the cooperation between RWE and Energinet, at the point of connection (POC) in Volder Mark. With a planned capacity of around 1,000 megawatts (MW), Thor will be Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm to date. The wind farm will be built off the Danish west coast approximately 22 kilometers from the port of Thorsminde. 22...

Jonathan Brearley regularly talk to customers so he knows that many readers will be extremely worried about rising energy bills. This is a difficult time for many households. Customers struggling to pay for their energy may be eligible for extra help such as debt repayment plans, emergency credit for prepayment metered customers, priority support, and schemes like the Winter Fuel Payment, and Brearley would encourage anyone struggling with their bills to get in touch with their energy company t...

EA Technology is delighted to announce the launch of VisNet Design, an online software tool that enables connection providers and network operators to design and model electrical network connections. The new tool gives an intuitive web-based experience to rapidly model low voltage networks, and it is optimized for modern web browsers. Government EV Infrastructure Strategy The Government EV Infrastructure Strategy committed to 300,000 public charge points by 2030 With the increase in the numb...

Schneider Electric, the global leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has appointed Amit Chaturvedy as Managing Partner, SE Ventures. In this new role, Amit Chaturvedy will drive and strengthen Schneider Electric’s long-term value creation in energy management and industrial automation. He will spearhead this effort with the current SE Ventures general partners – Grant Allen and Varun Jain. Together, this senior team has collective investing experi...

Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc. (Headquarters: Inukami-gun, Shiga Prefecture and President: Shigenobu Abe), a member of the Furukawa Electric Group, has installed a self-consumption solar power system at its head office, as one of the initiatives for reducing CO2 emissions within the entire value chain. The self-consumption solar power system started generating electric power on January 31, 2022 and the electricity will be used at the head office location. ‘FAS Environmental Challenge 2...

Visitors and exhibitors from more than 160 countries were present in the RAI last week during Intertraffic Amsterdam and Amsterdam Drone Week. For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic, all halls of the RAI were fully occupied. It is also the first time that these two events organized by RAI Amsterdam took place simultaneously in the RAI. Looking at the underlying themes and issues, there are major similarities between Intertraffic and Amsterdam Drone Week. Mobility, both in the air and...

On his appointment as Director on the Board of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Mr. Upinder Singh Matharu, 58, assumed charge as Director (Power) of the Public Sector Engineering and Manufacturing Enterprise at the company. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Matharu was heading BHEL’s Power Sector Eastern Region as Executive Director. He is a 1984 batch Mechanical Engineering graduate from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, in Patiala, India and holds a post-g...

Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. and S.L. Development Construction Corporation secured a submarine power transmission project in the Philippines, for a total of approximately 4.3 billion in yen. The project was awarded by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, a public corporation in charge of operating, maintaining, and developing the Philippines’ state-owned power grid. Delivery and completion of the cable system are scheduled for 2023. Submarine power transmission project The t...

Hitachi Energy has won an order from Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), Germany's biggest municipal public transportation company, to supply its Grid-eMotion™ Fleet smart charging infrastructure to help BVG transition to sustainable mobility in Berlin, the country's capital. Hitachi Energy will provide a complete Grid-eMotion Fleet grid-to-plug charging infrastructure solution for the next two bus depots to be converted into the bus electrification program. Grid-eMotion Fleet Hitachi Ener...

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has achieved a major milestone with the despatch of its 42nd Nuclear Steam Generator to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL). The steam generator, to be installed for a 700 MWe unit at NPCIL’s Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (RAPP), was flagged off from BHEL’s Trichy plant in the presence of senior officials of BHEL and NPCIL. Nuclear Power Program BHEL has been catering to the nation's Nuclear Program since 1976 by way of desig...

ABB has been awarded two major contracts by Plug Power Inc., a globally renowned provider of turnkey solutions for the global green hydrogen economy, in order to provide the electrical systems for two new hydrogen plants in North America, set to collectively produce 60 tons of green hydrogen per day. Green hydrogen is produced with renewable energy sources and emits zero carbon, when used as fuel. The first plant, Project Gateway, in Genesee County, New York, will be North America’s large...

Charging an EV will become as familiar to them as filling up at the pump. But, unlike going to a petrol station, EVs can be charged at home, at work, at destinations like cinemas and supermarkets, and on the go. Ofgem explains how the supply rules apply in different charging scenarios. Providing clarity to EV drivers, local authorities, investors and ChargePoint operators is crucial in enabling the roll-out of the EV infrastructure needed. Ofgem official Kevin Baillie explains how new guidance...

Electronic devices are increasingly power-hungry. Consumers are demanding more functionality and features from everyday electronics. To meet this demand, engineers build devices that do more than ever before. These devices consume more power to fuel the new capabilities. Overvoltage (OV) and overcurrent (OC) are important security features in power supplies. Using these features lets users protect the device under test (DUT) from a higher voltage than the DUT’s design was meant to handle....

With the magnetically shielded bar core choke WE-CHSA Performance, Würth Elektronik expands its portfolio of qualified products for automotive applications. The SMT high-current inductor represents an extension to the proven WE-CHSA series and differs from it only by a newly developed core material. As a result, WE-CHSA P - "P" as in performance achieves the best saturation behavior among comparable components on the market. The choke has a current-carrying capacity of up to 28 A and an op...

Siemens Smart Infrastructure (Siemens) in the U.S. have unveiled a new sustainable, EV charging concept structure, which is designed for electrifying fleets and high demand charging applications at scale. VersiCharge XL concept The new VersiCharge XL concept (UL standard) was created to electrify new or existing parking lots and building structures quickly and efficiently, by using a modular, scalable design, which has been made in partnership with Nexii Building Solutions (Nexii), using their...

Uniting the previously separated sectors of mobility and energy through the electrification of transport is an exciting yet daunting task. Electric vehicle grid integration – interconnecting electric cars with the power grid – presents many challenges, but also many opportunities for enabling smarter, more holistic energy management in homes, businesses and across entire cities. Network voltage deviations There will be 130 million EVs on European roads by 2035. A study by Eur...

ABB and Ballard Power Systems are progressing with their industry-renowned partnership to decarbonize marine transport and have received an AiP from DNV Maritime for their high-power fuel cell concept, the development of which was launched in 2018. An AiP is a major milestone in developing new technology as an independent assessment of the concept, confirming that the design is feasible and no significant obstacles exist to prevent the concept from being realized. With the AiP in place, the joi...

Schneider Electric, the globally renowned company in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has appointed Olivier Blum as the new Executive Vice President (EVP) of its Energy Management Business, effective from April 1, 2022. Olivier Blum, currently Chief Strategy & Sustainability Officer at Schneider Electric, will retain his role as a member of the Company’s Executive Committee. This change follows the announcement of Philippe Delorme’s appointment as...

On the arrival of the 2022 Chinese Spring Festival, Chinese President Xi Jinping, also General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspected Shanxi Ruiguang Heat & Power Co., Ltd. (“Shanxi Ruiguang” for short) and learned in detail about the company’s performance on energy conservation and emissions reduction, productivity increase, and safety of heat supply, during his visit to Shanxi Province, where...

The "Spira Lamp” is a piece of art. It is the vision of the designer and artist Ingegerd Råman, realized by Fagerhult in collaboration with skilled partners and subcontractors. It's like a gigantic votive reflecting in the cold waters of a Nordic lake. The culture and concert hall Spira in Jönköping is all glass and lightly crisp and bright during the day with a warm glow at night. Created by Gert Wingårdh, one of Sweden’s best-known and successful architects,...

The new factory location will make El Paso, Texas the home of Schneider Electric’s largest manufacturing operation in the United States of America. The global electrical and electronics component company, Schneider Electric, expects to hire about 400 new employees to manufacture electrical products for commercial businesses in U.S.A, Mexico, and Canada making it one of largest employers in El Paso, Texas. El Paso Manufacturing facility Schneider Electric, the globally renowned company i...

Danfoss VLT condition-based monitoring allows users to employ their AC drive as a smart sensor. With condition-based monitoring, internal sensors monitor activity beyond the drive, gathering data from multiple sources to generate vital, real-time insights to better understand what is happening in the entire system, enable real-time early detection of issues and minimize unplanned and costly downtime. Software functionality This software functionality embeds monitoring functions in the drive T...

Powerlite Fitzgerald, a UK manufacturer of energy-efficient LED lighting for the commercial, industrial, educational, and healthcare sectors have been selected by a global pioneer in publishing, education, and research Wiley to update the lighting systems at its UK site. Based in Oxford, the education services giant, which has more than 200 years of experience in developing digital education, learning, assessment, and certification solutions, was looking to overhaul its current fixtures and cho...

Construction of RWE’s next German onshore wind farm, the 22.8-megawatt Sandbostel-Bevern project in Lower Saxony, has commenced. A total of four Nordex wind turbines are being erected in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district, at the south-western edge of the Hamburg metropolitan area. climate-friendly energy What is special about this project is that three turbines with a total installed capacity of 17.1 megawatts (MW) are owned by RWE, while a further, identical turbine with a nomina...

A ground-breaking survey by research group Omdia showed that within the next four years data center operators will deploy uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) which can interact with the electric grid and support essential energy-management initiatives.  The use of renewable energy is growing on all fronts and is becoming the new normal in the data center industry. The integration of variable renewable energy resources into a more dynamic electric grid comes with new challenges and technic...