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,...
Microsoft’s Dublin data centre forced to build own power station
Microsoft is being forced to build its own powerstation in Dublin for its data centres because the local electricity grid is unable to cope,...
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...
The changing face of energy: The Energyst Event
New event taking place 17th to 18th of April at National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham
The full conference line-up has been officially announced for the inaugural...
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...
Northern Powergrid’s communications ‘completely unacceptable’ after Storm Arwen, says minister
Communications with its customers by Northern Powergrid, the DNO with at least 1,600 homes left still unconnected ten days after Storm Arwen devastated northern...
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...
JCB wins £10m contract for gas powered generators
JCB has secured a deal worth £10 million which will see the company’s first major entry into the gas powered generator sector. The company’s Power...
Battery-free UPS system wins iF Design Award
HITEC Power Protection, a manufacturer of Diesel Rotary UPS (DRUPS), has announced that its PowerPRO2700 product has won this year's iF Design Award. Each...
Bridging the energy gap: industry leaders reveal concerns
A new report finds that energy security and rising costs are impacting competitiveness for UK industry, so how could decentralised energy be made more...
Broadcast news: the importance of reliable power
Timeline’s broadcast facility in west London has increased the reliability of its operations through the installation of a new UPSÂ
Power is everything in the...
Contract win for Liverpool hospital
A contract to supply critical care power systems and hygienic touch-screen theatre control panels, with PACS viewing screens, has been awaded to Bender UK...