Energy Services Articles
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What are the advantages of power cable compared with overhead line?
Qingzhou wire and cable manufacturer will analyze for you the advantages of power cables compared with overhead lines? (1) The operation is reliable. As it is installed in concealed places such as underground, it is less damaged by external forces, has less chance of failure, and the power supply is safe, so it will not cause harm to people; (2) The maintenance workload is small, and frequent ...
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How are evolving standards improving MV installations?
Standards must evolve to ensure safer and efficient MV installations Almost all products people use in their daily lives - such as electronics, cars, medical devices, and home energy systems - were designed to meet designated industry standards. For the consumer, this means that these products meet both the safety and performance requirements. This even more true for MV installations ...
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Access to energy is a global priority for everyone
As we move towards a more digitized community, access to energy remains crucial for both individual well-being and national economic development. Let’s take reference from what the United Nations shared. According to the UN Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change, access to energy is considered a key factor in reducing poverty. That echoes our own experience in many countries, where we ...
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Huge growth in the energy meter market in four years, are you ready?
Huge growth in the energy meter market in four years, are you ready?Smart meters are electronic measurement devices specifically designed for electrical energy measurement applications. Smart meters automatically capture the energy consumption patterns of utility customers and communicate information for accurate and reliable billing, while significantly reducing the need for manual meter ...
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Risk Mitigation in Energy Efficiency Projects using an EMS
Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) continue growing in the UK and in Europe to serve all those businesses that want to implement energy efficiency projects. Many factors including the rise in prices, the increasing awareness of the impact of energy consumption as well as the availability of subsidies have led thousands of companies to implement energy-saving measures. In this transition, Energy ...
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The Smarter Digital Twin: Using Electrical System Simulation to Improve Safety, Reliability, and Sustainability
If you’ve been following my blog series, you may have noticed a common thread: data drives effective decision-making. Whether you are acting on sustainability, energy efficiency, electrical resilience, safety, or any other aspect of improving operations, data is the feedstock of analytics. And the analytic tools that convert data into actionable insights are getting smarter. In a previous ...
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Have Banks Become the new Energy Service Companies?
Energy efficiency is making its way into all sectors, and banks are now developing solutions to be part of the energy transition process. The targets set by governments and institutions to reduce emissions and preserve the planet have a direct impact on the energy sector. You may already know this figure, but we would like to remind you that one of the objectives of the Paris Agreement is to ...
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Waste-to-Energy References - JBT Waste Services - Case Study
The operations director of North-East-based JBT Waste Services talks RWW through the family-owned company’s multiple-waste-stream operations and skip-hire service, and its relationship with Cross Wrap for the refuse-derived fuel side of ...
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Building Regulations changes: a guide for Plumbing and Heating experts
From 15 June 2022, new homes in England and Wales will have to produce 31% less carbon emissions than current levels following changes to Part L of the Building Regulations. The new regulations will pave the way for the Future Homes and Buildings Standard, which will ensure that all new homes built from 2025 will produce 75 to 80 per cent less carbon emissions. A guide to Part L of the Building ...
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Energy Communities: Energy Saving through Local Production and Consumption
The energy transition, supported by growing public awareness of climate change has led to the emergence of energy communities around the world. What are these Communities and what are their Contributions and Benefits? Based on individual self-consumption, these communities have been formed to generate and benefit from the electricity generated locally by collaborating with companies, local ...
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Energy Performance Contract: What is the Best Tool to Track the Progress of your Roadmap?
The Energy Performance Contract (EPC), is one of the modalities of contracting energy services. In this article, you’ll find out what is the Energy Performance Contract and what tool can help your company to ensure the reduction of energy consumption whatever its sector of activity: industry, service, public administration, transport, etc… What is an Energy Performance Contract or ...
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Why You Need an Open API for Energy Data
It’s 2021, and by now smart meters are probably flooding your utility with zettabytes of data. Fantastic, right? But wait – that data deluge is totally worthless if you don’t do anything with it! An open API for energy can help by maximising the value of the massive amounts of data collected by large energy services companies and utilities by exposing it to brilliant developers ...
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The Multifold Impacts of Building an Energy Efficient Home
After the breakout of a global pandemic in 2020, people have realized the fragility of human life and how little we can control when it comes to combating the raging impacts of nature. Humankind understands the severity of a situation only when we are forced to deal with the consequences on a personal level. Similarly, while combating covid-19, people all over the world were overwhelmed with the ...
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Inspiring the Next Generation of Tech Talent: NSBE and Schneider Electric
According to a recent article by Pew Research, “Black and Hispanic workers remain underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce compared with their share of all workers. Black workers comprise 11% of all employed adults, compared with 9% of those in STEM occupations.” When I was studying electrical engineering at the FAMU-FSU (Florida A&M ...
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Upskill your electrical engineers to set them up for success in 2022
If you have big plans for your electrical engineering business this year, give your technicians the extra training and information they need to help you achieve those goals. While you may think that training is pricey and it's an expense you can't afford, the benefits of upskilling outweigh the cost in the long run. What is upskilling?Upskilling is the process of developing your technicians' ...
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The End-Customer Vision on Energy Efficiency
Companies play a huge role in the energy transition, as they consume and manage energy on a daily basis. Whether they are small companies or large multinationals, they all have energy, lighting, air conditioning and power needs. This article focuses on these companies, the end customers of energy services companies and providers. What are their energy challenges? Do they have energy ...
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How distribution system operators are facing today’s smart grid challenges
Hardware Pioneers, a media hub advocating for a “smarter and more connected world,” recently interviewed me, about the increasing challenges facing today’s distribution system operator (DSO). In this post, I would like to expand on that discussion and talk a bit more about the evolving nature of the smart grid and how new solutions can help a DSO manage this very dynamic ...
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Kohler Co. Acquires Heila Technologies to Expand Clean Energy Management Offering
Kohler Co. continues its focus on providing power resiliency solutions by expanding its clean energy management offering with the acquisition of Heila Technologies. Heila will become part of Kohler’s Power Group – a global leader in engines, power generation and clean energy. Heila Technologies was founded in 2015 as an MIT-born company in Somerville, Mass. and is dedicated to ...
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Improving data center sustainability is helping a leading government research laboratory support new supercomputers
In this post, we will see how a well-known U.S. government research laboratory is using a connected power management solution to help validate and improve power usage efficiency (PUE). This is helping them prepare today for the addition of new supercomputers, while meeting sustainability and resilience objectives into the ...
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Is January the best time to implement Electrical Engineering Software?
As the year comes to an end, you're probably getting ready for business to slow down or your annual shutdown. Investing in Electrical Engineering Software may be the last task on your mind, but have you ever considered that January may be the best time to buy Electrical Engineering Software? Now may be the right time to purchase the software you've been interested in but haven't had the time to ...
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