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Dec 22, 2023 Artist’s impression of V236-15.0 MW wind turbine (Credit: Vestas) The Dutch wind farm developer Ecowende, a joint venture between Shell and Eneco, has placed an order for 52 offshore wind turbines from Vestas, each rated at 15MW, for its Hollandse Kust (west) site VI. Once installed, Vestas will service the 760 MW…
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Avondale Foods (Craigavon) Ltd. was founded in 1965 by Harry and Derek Geddis. The brothers started in business growing vegetables at their family farm for distribution to local markets and retail outlets. As Avondale Foods expanded, produce was outsourced to local growers while the company focused on product development. In the late 1970s, Avondale Foods…
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In the realm of food manufacturing, maintaining stringent food safety standards is paramount to ensuring a quality end product and upholding brand reputation. As BRCGS audits loom in 2024, food manufacturers must prioritise fostering a strong food safety culture within their organisations. The essence of food safety culture A food safety culture encapsulates the shared…
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Image courtesy 123rf The UK Government has announced funding support for bidirectional electric vehicle charging in the hopes of developing vehicle to everything (V2X) capability. V2X allows users to leverage EV-stored excess electricity in the vehicle’s battery to power home appliances, such as fridges and washing machines, or flow back into the power grid for…
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Image courtesy 123rf With the worst of winter weather arguably still ahead of us, John Humble of grid voltage experts Fundamentals explores how intelligent risk management, targeted maintenance and better communication across our networks are critical for preparing our power grids to keep the lights on. How the grid can minimise winter outages Popular belief…
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Photo by Oxana Melis on Unsplash Uplight, a software provider for utilities, announced an agreement to acquire AutoGrid, a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) provider. The capabilities of Uplight and AutoGrid will be combined in a single platform to integrate, orchestrate, and monetise distributed energy resources (DERs). Uplight says…
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Image: Eversource FERC’s annual smart metering and demand response assessment highlights annual increases averaging around 8 million new smart meters. The assessment, compiled as a statutory requirement annually, quotes 2021 smart meter data as the latest, with numbers of 111.2 and 115.3 million smart meters from the EIA and Institute for Electric Innovation respectively. These…
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The distinctive packaging used by Jacob’s Creeks’ wines and Castillo de Molina has generated an increase in sales of the packed wines. For three consecutive years wine has been packaged in gift bags made of Paptic material – a solution to better serve today’s environmentally conscious consumers. “Sustainable development is at the core of all…
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Image courtesy ENA Energy Networks Association (ENA) in the UK has set out an industry action plan to release enough grid capacity in the next year to decarbonise Great Britain’s power grid. With an additional 112GW of capacity already installed, the 139GW this action plan delivers exceeds the 225GW needed to decarbonise the grid, states…
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Image: Grid Singularity Dr Ana Trbovich, cofounder of Grid Singularity and the Energy Web Foundation, reports on a new study on the financing of energy communities. External financial support is generally only required for energy communities until two regulatory-related conditions are met. One is that the red tape surrounding the establishment and operation of energy…
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