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Keynote speaker African Utility Week 2019 Cape Town
This year we are invited to speak at the African Utility Week in Cape Town. Our Waste Transformer installed at N1 City Mall in Cape Town has not gone unnoticed. We, and Growthpoint Properties are featured regularly on tv-news items and radio. Now it is time to come back to Cape Town to tell more about the generated impact and what power lies in the replicability of a small-scale anaerobic ...
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Smith Brothers begins construction on second Arlington Energy battery storage site
Arlington Energy’s colossal 1GW UK portfolio of energy storage and gas peaker projects continues to evolve. Smith Brothers Contracting Ltd has commenced construction work at a battery site on Greenfield Road, Bedford. The independent connection provider (ICP), will oversee all private, contestable, and EPC works relating to the 40MW assignment – from initial design, through to final ...
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Leading glassmaker appoints Smith Brothers for grid connection
Part of the Saint-Gobain Group – a global designer and producer of construction materials and solutions – Saint-Gobain Glass is the principal supplier of coated glass worldwide, with its UK base in Eggborough, Goole. With the manufacturing facility currently supplied via a private-wire network, high voltage specialist Smith Brothers has been enlisted to connect it to the local ...
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Oil Transformer risk management : how to protect your electrical installations ?
A- For the medium and low voltage and distribution domains 1.A single retention tank is mandatory and must contain at least 100% of the volume of the dielectric oil contained in the transformer. (BDRSA, BDRG2, TRT and TRFLEX) in UK it must be minimum 120%2.You can also use an extinguishing retention tank equipped with a fast dielectric extinguishing system made of slats. Generally, for oil ...
By Sanergrid
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An Unexpected Debut: ARIES Microgrid Infrastructure Powers NREL Campus Through Outage
Less than two months after the Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) commissioned utility-scale infrastructure for the Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems (ARIES) research platform, it experienced a utility-scale emergency: An outage at NREL's Flatirons Campus cut power to the entire site, including its servers, offices, and research hardware. With ...
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RWE Innogy commences with turbine installation for the Nordsee Ost Offshore Wind Farm
At RWE’s base port in Bremerhaven the go-ahead was given yesterday for the installation of the 48 wind turbines that will comprise the Nordsee Ost Offshore Wind Farm: Four 240-tonnes tubular steel towers, together with the associated hubs and nacelles, were loaded onto the installation vessel “Victoria Mathias” which will transport them for installation at sea over the coming ...
By RWE AG
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Con Edison Strengthens Storm Hardening Efforts With Siemens Mobile Substations
Siemens is providing Con Edison, the utility that powers New York City and local areas, with six new mobile medium-voltage substations that can be used for rapid emergency response. The technology, with plug-and-play functionality, will give Con Edison the ability to deploy and fully operate a power substation within days instead of the months it can traditionally take to replace damaged gear. ...
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Siemens to connect Thanet offshore wind farm to the British power grid
Siemens Energy and consortium partner Prysmian Cables & Systems, have been awarded an order worth approximately EUR 87 million by Thanet Offshore Wind Ltd. to connect the Thanet offshore wind farm to the British power grid. Generating enough electricity to power over 167,000 homes, the wind farm with an installed capacity of 300 megawatts (MW) will be constructed in the North Sea, eleven ...
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Utilities cite 3 areas of fundamental interest in New York’s Distributed Energy System planning
Katherine Tweed reports in GreenTech Media that in response to the Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) Plan, New York utilities are planning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the next five years to prepare for a distributed energy future and cites three areas of primary importance: non-wires alternatives, smart metering, and advanced distribution management systems. For more than two ...
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A New York Energy Innovation First: Battery Storage & Vehicle Chargers On One Site
Con Edison has issued an award letter to Centrica Business Solutions, which has clean energy projects in Europe and North America, for a battery system and EV chargers at 223 Nevins St. in the Gowanus neighborhood. This project will be the first in New York City that combines energy storage and electric vehicle charging. "This project is unique in that it pairs an energy storage system with ...
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Why dry-type transformers really reduce the risk of fire?
Studies have shown that electrical equipment, including transformers, is the leading cause of fires in various industries. However, dry-type cast resin transformers have been shown to reduce this risk. Since they do not contain petroleum, they greatly reduce the risk of fire. They are also rated F1 in terms of fire protection standards. This means they will not cause a fire under short circuit ...
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NREL Announces Participants for Executive Energy Leadership Program
The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has selected 21 leaders to participate in its 2015 Executive Energy Leadership program (Energy Execs), which empowers executives to integrate clean energy solutions in their communities. The five-month program offers executive decision-makers from throughout the U.S. an in-depth look at renewable energy and energy efficiency ...
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ABB supplies large ultrahigh voltage transformers in US
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has successfully tested and delivered three 750 MVA (765/500/13.8 kV), single phase auto-transformers designed and built for the US based electric utility, Allegheny Energy. The transformers together weigh over 750 tonnes and each has enough capacity to power 250 electric locomotives. They are unique in their class given the combination of ...
By ABB
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WTEC: Total Solar and Wind Energy Solutions
The Company Overview WTEC and its affiliates is an engineering, manufacturing, procurement and construction company dedicated to the alternative energy market. It designs and produces products to move energy from the generation point to utility interconnect for both wind and solar energy. The Company's approach is to offer a comprehensive package of electrical components. Its goal is to ...
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Fusing the WattNode
Overview test There must be an overcurrent protection device (circuit breaker or fuse) protecting each phase conductor connected to the WattNode meter's voltage input terminals (green, 5 circuit screw terminal block). However, in some cases, the circuit being monitored is already protected by fuses or circuit breakers and there is no need for additional protection for the meter. WARNING!Only ...
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NREL Announces Participants in National Executive Education Program
The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has selected 17 leaders to participate in its 2014 Executive Energy Leadership program (Energy Execs), which empowers executives to integrate clean energy solutions in their communities. The five-month program offers executive decision-makers from throughout the U.S. an in-depth look at renewable energy and energy ...
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Combi boiler market to be driven by rigorous regulatory frameworks and rapid product advancements
Owing to the massive investments being made in low carbon innovations, the revenue graph of combi boiler market has received a remarkable boost over the recent years. A marked increase in environmental concerns to lower the greenhouse gas emissions has compelled various regulatory authorities to prescribe stringent legislations regarding the installation of heating systems across commercial and ...
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SMA Smartformer Enhances Design Flexibility of Sunny Island Systems
SMA announces the availability of its Smartformer, a transformer and distribution box that is compatible with SMA’s Sunny Island inverters. Available in the North American Market, the UL certified Smartformer facilitates easy application for off-grid or grid-tied battery backup single Sunny Island systems. With this product SMA continues its efforts to improve the performance of battery ...
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Iberdrola invested €550 million in extending and improving its electricity grid in Spain in 2009
Facilities ensure a quality power supply The company has added approximately 3,300 MVA to the system, thereby increasing its installed capacity by 5.5% IBERDROLA has commissioned 22 new substations, almost 3,000 km of power lines and approximately 3,200 transformer stations during the past year IBERDROLA invested €550 million in extending and improving its electricity grid in Spain in ...
By Iberdrola
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One-stop fulfillment: Siemens Gamesa to supply EnBW Albatros offshore wind power plant as first German full-scope-project
Following the 497-megawatt (MW) order for the EnBW Hohe See offshore wind power-plant, EnBW has also awarded Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy with the installation of the neighboring 112-MW-project EnBW Albatros. The scope of supply includes 16 direct-drive SWT-7.0-154 wind turbines on monopile foundations and the grid connection via a Siemens Offshore Transformer Module (OTM). Siemens Gamesa will ...
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