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Schneider Electric and HPE collaborate on solution for micro data centres

Schneider Electric has announced it has collaborated with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) on HPE Micro Datacenter. The collaboratively engineered converged infrastructure solution provides end-to-end...

Schneider Electric Advances Management of Hybrid IT Infrastructure with New EcoStruxure IT Innovation

Schneider Electric have announced it is advancing the remote management and monitoring of data centres and edge computing deployments with a trifecta of innovations...

Saft and Socomec deliver backup power system for Total’s supercomputer environment

Battery leader Saft and industrial group Socomec have delivered a high-performance UPS featuring lithium-ion data batteries for Total’s HPC data centre which hosts one...

RTE selects Saft for lithium-ion backup battery systems in innovative Smart Grid Substation installations

Saft has supplied two battery systems to French transmission grid operator RTE to provide vital backup power for its innovative Smart Substations Project. The...

Rapid assembly PDU systems for secure distribution

Rittal has developed four compact PDU (Power Distribution Units) systems for professional power distribution in IT racks which are claimed to halve the time...

Prysmian provides smart solution for upgrade of US power transmission system

Prysmian Group will carry out a project aimed at upgrading the US Capital area’s power transmission system. The multi-phased project is expected to be...

Taking stock of power security: ensuring reliability for Shanghai Stock Exchange

ABB’s robust low-voltage switchgear is providing high reliability for the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Mission critical applications, such as these, are increasingly looking for digital...

Powerful intelligence: the role of smart PDUs

The increased sophistication of PDUs is in line with expectations for increasingly granular data. Panduit’s Sander Kaempfer provides an insight into the role of...

Power only half the story as volatility hits energy bills in 2016

Wholesale power prices declined for 2015 with anticipated softening into 2016. Yet bills are expected to rise and the market to become increasingly volatile....

Power distribution at the rack level

With a huge demand for computing devices, particularly enterprise servers that are generally housed in data centres or co-location facilities, and a commensurate rise...

Panduit wins industry award for contribution to data centre industry

At the recent 2018 DCS industry awards, Panduit won the Industry Award, for its outstanding contribution to some of the industry’s most significant breakthroughs...

Panduit awarded approved supplier status by Kao Data

Panduit EMEA, the physical infrastructure and connectivity company, has achieved approved supplier status to the Kao Data Campus, for its Universal Containment, hot aisle...

Nidec to install microgrid for tropical island

Nidec ASI has won the tender for the creation of a microgrid on a tropical island in the Bahamas. The aim of the project, worth...

Nexans wins €190 million cabling contract

Nexans has achieved a major success in a global tender process carried out by a one of the biggest utility companies in the world,...

New standby power system at Greggs PLC’s

The 1,650kVA generator is being installed in a new plant room complete with attenuation, exhaust silencer and fuel tank, as part of Gregg’s strategic...

Vertiv expands rack PDU offering with acquisition of Geist

Vertiv, formerly Emerson Network Power, has acquired Geist, a privately owned manufacturer of Rack Power Distribution Units (PDUs) and associated data centre power products....

EGL2 mega-connector wins Anglo-Scots planners’ green light

Britain’s biggest current network improvement project, the Eastern Green Link 2 subsea cable running for 291 miles under the North Sea, has secured planning...

Teachers strike in Scotland, eh?: Canucks pile on to a quarter of SSE’s pylons

Snowy-booted visitors from northern America today descended once again on the snowy-booted electricity engineers of north Britain, as a big Canadian public-sector pension fund...

SMITN poleaxes DNO into deeper love for users’ data

Britain’s biggest regional gridco Western Power Distribution is seeking new ways to crunch data from its smart meters, readying its switches and wires for...

Thanks a thousand: WPD trials ‘kilo-quick’ fault limiter on CHP campus

Britain’s biggest DNO Western Power Distribution is trialling a new hyper-fast current breaker, assessing its potential to play a crucial role in evolving bi-directional...