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Massimo Muzzì Electrification holds the key to cleaner, more efficient energy distribution and use. But fully realizing its promise demands balancing tech innovation with collaboration across industry, says Massimo Muzzì, head of strategy, business development and sustainability at ABB Electrification. With this year’s Earth Day seeing a continued climb in carbon emissions, what will our…
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Image courtesy 123rf National Grid, an energy transmission and distribution company, is planning to invest £66 billion ($76.5 billion) over five years into its power networks to help unlock economic growth while enabling digitalisation and decarbonisation of the power system. Half of the investment, announced in the company’s yearly results ending March 31, 2024, will…
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Scandlines has contracted Wärtsilä to supply the electrical systems for the Puttgarden-Rødby ferries to ensure that electricity contributes about 80% of the energy needed for a crossing. Wärtsilä’s electrical systems After a competitive tender process with several suppliers, Scandlines chose Wärtsilä as the supplier of the electrical systems for the Scandlines hybrid ferries Schleswig-Holstein and…
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Image: Heimdall Power The Minnesota legislature has passed a bill adding grid enhancing technologies (GETs) to the state’s transmission planning process. In terms of the bill, utilities owning more than 1,200km of transmission lines are required to report on highly congested areas and to evaluate the use of GETs on these, along with presenting a…
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Image credit: Itron As utilities move toward climate adaptation and sustainability, managing distribution system assets becomes critical to address energy challenges arising from population growth, increasing energy demand, extreme weather conditions and the influx of new distributed energy resources (DERs) connected to the distribution system. Utilities need a unified, highly reliable system providing a strong…
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Image courtesy NeuConnect NeuConnect, the first direct power link between Germany and Great Britain, has marked the start of major construction work in Germany. For the connector, new converter stations will be built in Wilhelmshaven in northern Germany and on the Isle of Grain in England, connected by 725km of land and subsea cables to…
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Analysis by Arla Foods Ingredients has provided new insights into the reasons so many patients struggle to complete a medical nutrition plan. The nutrition leader studied data based on 12,000 patients with serious illnesses in 12 different countries (FMCG Gurus’ Medical Nutrition Insights database, N: 12000 from Brazil, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South…
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Lloyd’s Register (LR) has awarded approval in principle (AiP) to Seaspan Corporation for its feeder ship design. Next-generation feeder ship design The vessel, measuring 198m in length and developed by Technolog, is reportedly futureproofed in its design and can be converted from LNG to ammonia fuel during its lifetime. The design of the feeder ship…
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Image: 123RF Modelling has been developed to estimate the impacts of shading on PV output during hurricanes and how a US-Caribbean-South America super grid could minimise these. Solar PV is proving the most cost-effective option for scaling renewables in the Caribbean, as it is elsewhere. But it also is highly sensitive to shading and thus…
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Maxim Timchenko of DTEK at Eurelectric’s Power Summit Maxim Timchenko says fighting spirit will defy cycle of destruction-restoration-destruction Two years ago, the boss of Ukrainian energy company DTEK spoke at the Eurelectric Power Summit just weeks after the Russian invasion of his country. This week, Maxim Timchenko was back at the summit as a surprise…
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