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US Army Corps of Engineers Task Force Power Restoration contractors complete work on a transmission line in the Guanica State Forest, Puerto Rico, April 6. The line connects the Costa Sur Power Plant in Ponce to Mayaguez. Mayaguez is the eighth-largest municipality in Puerto Rico. The repairs stabilized the system for the region. (Credit: USACE)…
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Industrial automation experts FANUC UK have announced an agreement with Reeco Automation to incorporate the FANUC CRX range of collaborative robots into the RB series of robot palletisers. As manual loading becomes an increasingly harder role to recruit, Reeco’s automated end-of-line RB Palletiser systems have grown in popularity, particularly among food & beverage producers. By…
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Image credit: Itron As a utility, there is pressure to accommodate new demand, integrate renewables, and help decarbonize national and global economies. In addition, aging infrastructure and increasingly volatile weather threaten the safety and reliability of services. At the same time, the upswell of urgency in the industry has generated a wave of new technologies,…
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Grzegorz Kinelski, president of Enea (left) with Mirosław Czekaj, president of Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego. Image courtesy Enea Polish DSO Enea has obtained over PLN9 billion ($2.4 billion) from Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego to develop a modern distribution network with smart grid technology. The loan agreement is being financed from the National Resilience and Recovery Plan (KPO)…
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Image courtesy 123rf Dutch DSO Enexis, in collaboration with Zonnedimmer, will trial solar panel dimming on customer homes at times of high solar supply to test its ability to prevent power grid overload. The pilot has space for 500 participants and will see Enexis dim the participants’ solar panels in exchange for 30 euro cents…
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Image courtesy Ricardo Transformers, power lines and protection devices for the power network in the UK have been categorised as ‘vulnerable’ to extreme heat, says a Ricardo-led research programme. The energy consultancy led a Climate Services for a Net Zero World research programme on behalf of the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero,…
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Image: National Grid Electricity Distribution National Grid Electricity Distribution has launched HV Pilot to map how HV networks connect to LV systems in rural Britain. With funding from Ofgem’s Network Innovation Allowance, the HV Pilot project intends to use smart meter data, helicopter survey insights and machine learning for the mapping. The aim is to…
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Image courtesy 123rf India has some of the biggest market potential for smart metering and AMI in the world. One company that has noticed is France’s EDF. It’s not a secret that the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) market in India has been rapidly evolving in recent years, marked by pro-active policy and the widespread deployment…
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Surprise outperformed price at this year’s PLMA in Amsterdam as retailers found they can increase value by offering products that defy expectations. From May 20 and 21, over 30,000 visitors from more than 125 countries visited PLMA’s private label exhibition in Amsterdam. Among these visitors were many buyers, category managers and other retail representatives. They…
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Image courtesy 123rf The HOMEflex project, an initiative by SSEN Distribution and Flex Assure, has released its final report, which outlines a Code of Conduct and a proposed compliance scheme for the UK’s rapidly growing domestic energy flexibility market. British utility Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) and code of conduct and compliance scheme Flex…
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