
Image Credit: Schneider Electric Broadcast: Thursday, 13 June 2024 08h00 New York | 12h00 GMT | 13h00 London | 14h00 Amsterdam | 14h00 Johannesburg | 16h00 Dubai | 17h30 New Delhi | 20h00 Singapore 60-minute session The energy landscape is undergoing a dramatic shift with the rise of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and prosumers. This…

ESS Energy Warehouse. Image credit: ESS Tech, Inc. ESS Tech has commissioned an energy storage system at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, which will be used to phase out diesel ground power units that supply electrical power to aircraft while parked at airport gates. These power units will be replaced with Electric Ground Power Units (E-GPUs).…

Tim Meyerjürgens. Image courtesy TenneT Anticipating the upcoming synchronisation with Europe’s continental grid by February 2025, Lithuanian TSO Litgrid welcomes TenneT COO Tim Meyerjürgens and Pierre-Henri D’haene, Belgian TSO Elia Group’s head of strategy, transformation and sustainability to their board. Meyerjürgens and D’haene join Litgrid as independent board members after the TSO held a shareholders’…

Tim Meyerjürgens. Image courtesy TenneT Anticipating the upcoming synchronisation with Europe’s continental grid by February 2025, Lithuanian TSO Litgrid welcomes TenneT COO Tim Meyerjürgens and Pierre-Henri D’haene, Belgian TSO Elia Group’s head of strategy, transformation and sustainability to their board. Meyerjürgens and D’haene join Litgrid as independent board members after the TSO held a shareholders’…

Seatrium has secured a topsides integration contract from MODEC’s company Offshore Frontier Solutions for the Errea Wittu floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit. The contract scope of work covers the installation and integration of topside modules onboard the FPSO Errea Wittu, and includes completion and commissioning support for MODEC. The FPSO will be deployed…

AI generated image. Courtesy 123rf Five hundred South Australian households will partake in a new project from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and electricity distributor SA Power Networks to trial smart home energy management and its effect on the power system. The project is being called an Australian first, demonstrating aggregated flexible demand in…

Image courtesy E-REDES Portuguese distribution system operator E-REDES has announced an automation project to make it possible to vary the intensity of street lighting and implement remote monitoring. E-REDES, in partnership with the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, is launching the Luxifer project using the FlexIP system, the distribution operator’s public lighting remote management…

Image: National Grid There are many ‘non-pipeline alternatives’ for gas system decarbonisation but no one-size-fits-all solution and current projects reflect diverse energy policy goals. Across the US and elsewhere, spending on gas distribution infrastructure has increased substantially in the last 10 years, including major spending on programmes to replace old gas lines with new ones.…

Image: IonQ The US Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is collaborating with quantum computing company IonQ to help solve power grid challenges and drive infrastructure improvements. In the US Department of Energy-funded project, the two organisations intend to explore how quantum computing technology can be used to modernise the power grid. The project is focused…

Image: National Grid National Grid is partnering with technology provider Smart Wires to develop a tool to coordinate the dispatch of advanced power flow control devices. The project, which is being supported from Ofgem’s Network Innovation Alliance, is aimed to make better use of advanced power flow controllers and other so-called ‘grid enhancing technologies’ to…