Transmission and Distribution News

HanseWerk, a subsidiary of E.ON and one of the biggest providers of energy solutions in northern Germany, has brought on stream its fourth high-efficiency combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Hamburg. With an efficiency of more than 95 percent, the plant will produce power for up to 20,000 and heat for around 2,800 households. efficient cogeneration fleet HanseWerk joined with GE Jenbacher to develop a plant concept that boosts the 95% efficiency of the plant For this project, HanseWerk jo...

An alliance for sustainability has been formed in Dortmund: together with E.ON, the companies Deutsche Gasrußwerke and Coldstore Group as well as the City of Dortmund are pursuing innovative approaches to energy supply. For these customers, E.ON developed a system that recycles excess heat from the Gasrußwerke plants and provides the deep-freeze logistics company Coldstore in the form of deep-freeze. The solution intelligently combines supply and demand and increases the attractiven...

The Essen-based companies E.ON SE and FAKT AG have decided to intensify their existing cooperation. During the E-world trade fair, E.ON CEO Johannes Teyssen and Hubert Schulte-Kemper, CEO of FAKT AG, signed an energy partnership. In this agreement, the partners agree to pool their expertise in urban development projects in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region. The cooperation refers to sustainable energy solutions for large-scale projects that are implemented by FAKT AG. In addition to the design...

E.ON has ordered 16,000 smart meter gateways from the manufacturer PPC, thus paving the way for the installation of smart metering systems as required by law, which will start this year. The gateway is the communication unit in the smart metering system. It is responsible for transmitting meter data wirelessly. Intelligent metering systems The new technology is expected to be installed across the entire E.ON network area from mid-2018. The legislation provides for the installation of intellig...

E.ON will be presenting several innovative products for all customer groups at the E-world energy trade fair in Essen from February 6 to 8. From the virtual storage of solar power via a thermal battery for municipal heating networks to the filling station of the future, E.ON will showcase numerous ways in which customers can benefit from the opportunities offered by the new energy world. “More and more customers are expecting sustainable solutions that protect both the environment and the...

E.ON stirs up the solar and photovoltaic market. E.ON is the first company to offer its customers the option of storing their own solar power without the usual battery. From now on, owners of photovoltaic systems can feed their energy directly into the E.ON SolarCloud without any limit. This virtual electricity account can be accessed not only for the energy demand at home, but also in other places. E.ON will be the first to offer this product innovation on the energy markets in Germany and in...

DTECH is the pioneering Smart Grid conference and exposition, covering Utility technologies, automation & control systems, energy efficiency, T&D and much more. This event gathers professionals from 330 electric, water and other municipal Utilities to enhance their knowledge of the transmission and distribution industry. Key topics of the conference Some of the key topics of the conference will be: geospatial, mobile solutions, customer strategies & technologies, asset management,...

The site of an old bus station and NCP car park in Bournemouth has been transformed into a modern leisure complex, complete with intelligent lighting control solutions from CP Electronics. The UK’s largest supplier of lighting controls has supplied a range of microwave presence detectors and its RAPID fully addressable lighting control system to the project to cover the main public areas and back-of-house corridors, in addition to the various types of external feature...

OverIT and Almawave announce the signing of a partnership agreement that covers the integration of voice controls and predictive analysis in the management of maintenance interventions, thus providing smart support that allows to find simply and quickly the information needed, to promptly report surveys and interventions, and to simplify the working procedures. This all can be achieved thanks to the power of automatic transcription voice controls and of the Artificial Intelligence for fast...

By investing in a new major project, E.ON underscores the attractiveness of the U.S. wind power market. In Kenedy County, Texas, E.ON has begun construction of the Stella wind farm. The project will have an installed capacity of 201 megawatts (MW) powered by 67 turbines of the three-megawatt class from the German manufacturer Nordex. In parallel with the start of construction of Stella wind farm, E.ON started commercial operation on two wind farms: Bruenning's Breeze in Willacy County, Texas, w...

As already announced in September, the Supervisory Board of E.ON SE today extended Johannes Teyssen's contract as Chairman of the Board of Management until December 31, 2021. “Johannes Teyssen has drawn the right conclusions for E.ON from the fundamental changes in the energy world and has systematically put customers at the center of everything the company does. E.ON is now fully focused on its three core businesses: technologically advanced energy networks, efficient wind and solar farm...