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  • Six steps to achieve cyber resilience for electric utilities

    Credit: Cisco IoT A core set of six key principles are recommended to build a cyber-resilient grid infrastructure and overcome the constraints of the modern energy market. As the world grapples with rising energy demands, the push for renewable energy, and the growing threats of climate change, electric utilities around the globe are rushing to…


  • Tech Talk | The digital utility of the future

    Image: Enlit Stakeholders presented in a panel at Enlit Europe 2024 some of the innovations that energy sector companies are working on the path towards the utility of the future. Opening the session, chairperson Gaia Gallotti, research director and head of IDC Energy Insights Europe, set the scene by highlighting the accomplishments of utilities in…


  • US DOE offers m for AI solutions to break interconnection logjam

    Image: 123RF Can artificial intelligence help us manage better manage grid interconnection? The Biden-Harris Administration recognises the value of leveraging the burgeoning tech to get more clean energy generation connected to the grid. The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $30 million available from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to accelerate the interconnection process…


  • Australia’s national electricity market smart meter rollout rule finalised

    Image courtesy 123rf An accelerated smart meter rollout to be finalised by 2030 in Australia’s national electricity market has been approved in a final rule from the Energy Market Commission. The final rule, the result of a four year-long process, is envisaged to enable the benefits of smart meters to be achieved more rapidly, including…


  • Leibinger provides printing samples in three working days as a free service

    The Application Centre and Ink Lab are under the same roof. The laboratory develops, for example, quick-drying inks for the food industry as well as sterilisation-resistant inks. Source: Paul Leibinger Posted: 2 December 2024 Share this page Leibinger is offering “exceptionally realistic” printing samples within three working days as a free service at its recently…


  • Leibinger provides printing samples as free service

    The Application Centre and Ink Lab are under the same roof. The laboratory develops, for example, quick-drying inks for the food industry as well as sterilisation-resistant inks. Source: Paul Leibinger Posted: 2 December 2024 Share this page Leibinger is offering “exceptionally realistic” printing samples within three working days as a free service at its recently…


  • Vertom Group takes delivery of first of 12 diesel-electric short-sea vessels from Chowgule Shipyards

    Vertom Group has taken delivery of MV Vertom Rita, the first of a series of 12 diesel-electric short-sea vessels ordered from Chowgule Shipyards in India. The 6,000 deadweight tonnage (DWT) vessel is the smaller version of the 7,280 DWT vessel built in the Netherlands, of which six have already been delivered. With the delivery of…


  • Danish Technological Institute helps smaller producers of plant-based foods to grow

    More than 30 participating companies will be offered tailor-made development courses in areas such as process development, food safety and taste optimisation. Posted: 2 December 2024 Share this page Thirty small and medium-sized plant-based product manufacturers will get access to customised development procedures over the course of the following three years, which will help them…


  • British Glass accuses the Government of smashing sector

    British Glass has charged that the government is destroying the glass industry in the UK following the passage of a contentious new packaging tax by Parliament. According to British Glass, under the new packaging extended producer responsibility (pEPR) scheme, which shifts the cost of collection and sorting from local authorities to producers, heavier containers like…


  • STATCOM substation inaugurated at former German nuclear power plant

    Philippsburg converter. Image courtesy TransnetBW. A substation convertor that can operate in STATCOM (Static Synchronous Compensator) mode has been inaugurated on the site of a former nuclear power plant in Philippsburg, Germany. German TSO TransnetBW inaugurated the direct current substation converter as part of the ULTRANET network expansion project. The converter is the southern end…