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...
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....
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...
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,...
Loadbanks deliver resilience for Europe’s greenest mine
Crestchic has provided two of its 1MW resistive only loadbanks to the first ever underground data centre, based in Norway.
The Lefdal mine, a 120,000...
E.ON integrates Fraport AG emergency power generators into virtual power plant
E.ON's virtual power plant continues to grow. Four emergency power generators for Fraport AG are now linked to E.ON's energy platform. This means that,...
London: is the capital still the epicentre for data centres?
Aegis Data has speculated that London “may no longer be the epicentre for the data centre community”. The Surrey-based co-location provider says that third-party...
Power technology trends for 2019
Power Control’s director, Rob Mather, explores some power technology trends for 2019, aimed at driving energy efficiency and improving resilience...
The need to balance resilience,...
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 UPS
Power is everything in the...
Guidance issued on maintaining UPS
In a data centre, the UPS acts as the first line of defence, protecting against a range of power problems – from voltage spikes...
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...
Crestchic Loadbanks provides Pakistani port with a solution to regenerative power
The container shipping industry is an ever-growing, fast-paced environment, and power infrastructure cannot always grow in-line with power requirements. For this reason, many container...
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...
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...
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...
Fit for the future: new modular UPS
Uninterruptible Power Supplies Limited (UPSL), a Kohler company, has recently launched the PowerWAVE 9250 DPA – the latest addition to its range of premium,...
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...
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...
Tiers of joy: how risk reduction can save data centres money
A survey of data centre operators showed that one quarter experienced a data centre outage in the past 12 months. However, Tier certification can...
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,...