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...
Solar energy to power Apple’s data centre
NV Energy and Apple have announced an agreement to build 200 megawatts of additional solar energy in Nevada by early 2019. The projects will...
Supporting Ireland’s data centre growth
Interxion’s DUB3 data centre has been designed using energy-saving, modular architecture. At the heart of the design was the need to guarantee service delivery...
The pros and cons of eco-mode UPS: what does the future hold?
Ian Bitterlin discusses the potential risks and benefits of adopting eco-mode UPS technology, and considers the future impact of silicon carbide IGBTs.
In the early...
The show must go on: keeping the lights on at Wyndham’s Theatre
Wyndham’s Theatre first opened its doors in 1899, designed by architect William Sprague for the leading actor-manager of his day, Charles Wyndham. The Louis...
UK interest in microgrids builds momentum
Concerns continue to grow as to how our networks can address the power supply capacity, stability and resilience issues vital to ensure ‘business as...
Younicos awards battery-based energy storage project to Morrison
Morrison Utility Connections, a major projects Independent Connection Provider (ICP) and part of Morrison Utility Services, has been commissioned to build and connect one...
‘Too many data centres operate in reactive mode’ warns consulting firm
Nils Gerstle from Collaboretix Enterprise Consulting warns that failures are all too often due to a reactive approach to data centre management.Â
Data centre failure can...
Energy in industry 4.0: harnessing the connected site
Advances in Industry 4.0 can enhance energy strategies and improve the resilience of critical sites. DSR is often seen as a risk to critical sites,...
Load banks to provide UPS testing for BT
Creschic Loadbanks has supplied a fleet of 30 transportable and 27 state-of-the-art loadbank trailer sets to telecommunications giant, BT. Ranging in size from 60kW to...
Renewables will be key to Ireland’s data centre growth
Host in Ireland, a strategic global initiative created to increase awareness of the benefits of hosting digital assets in Ireland, has released a report...
Smart grid evolution: potential of a dynamic capacity market
Gareth Spinner at Noveus offers an insight into the smart grid and explores some of the key issues and considerations for data centres that...
Ofgem to consult in November on Price Cap reform
Britain’s energy regulator will consult in November on reform to the Price Cap mechanism regulating energy sales to 15 million UK domestic consumers.
Ofgem wrote...
National Grid half year results:Â Pre-tax up 75%, op profit up 47%, capex up...
Britain’s privatised backbone system operator pleased investors today with strong results for the six months to September.
Against a steady-state base of continuing activities, National...
Carlton Power and Stag Energy merge to deliver infrastructure wizardry
Two of Britain’s longest established developers of energy infrastructure are joining up. Ending three decades of independence, Carlton Power and Stag Energy today plight...
Offshore wind wafts jobs home, as Britain out-Chinas China
Britain’s offshore wind pipeline of intended but unbuilt turbine projects now tops 86GW, or eight times the nation’s current installed capacity and bigger even...
Sunshine on Leith – and up to 6 GW of new PV arrays –...
Scotland could be in for an imminent bonanza in skilled jobs, care of clean, quickly deployed and popular solar power.
In his novel ‘Blandings Castle’,...
For ‘windfall tax’, read ‘profits levy’: Sunak doubles fuel help, as £15bn package offers...
After weeks of denying he’d impose a windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas extractors, Chancellor Rishi Sunak today bowed to Ofgem’s fears...
New green jobs surging at four times standard vacancy creation, say PwC
Global accountants PwC calculate that Britain’s creation of green jobs is running at four times the creation rate for other vacancies.
The consultancy firm’s “Green...
Doggone wind! Octopus shells out for offtake from world’s biggest offshore farm
Integrated generator-investor-retailer of low-carbon renewable electricity Octopus Energy has squirted marine ink over a deal to source nearly a quarter of its needs from...