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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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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 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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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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Recently published data in March 2022 summarises how the gender composition of the UK’s engineering workforce has changed over the last 11 years and confirms unsurprisingly, that engineering remains a very much male-dominated field. However, the trends are gradually shifting, confirming that while the percentage of women in engineering has increased, the increases are concentrated…
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PepsiCo is now using trucks powered by hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) – used cooking oil – to transport Walkers crisps from its distribution centre in Leicester to retailers across the UK. The move will see low-carbon HVO replace diesel across approximately 11 million miles of truck journeys by the end of 2024 and will save…
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Gold Standard Nutrition’s (GSN) new Panko Chicken will now sit alongside 1kg bags of Salt & Pepper Chicken Bites, Spicy Fajita and Smokey Hickory BBQ. According to GSN founder, Craig Allen ‘Initially, the Panko Chicken first gained a cult following on account of its starring role within the top-selling Chicken Katsu curry pot. Brand die-hards…
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Frying is a popular food preparation method with inherent dangers. These risks can quickly escalate in commercial facilities because the overall volume of fried consumables is larger than what people make at home. How should decision-makers at food processing plants and similar settings use industrial fire suppression systems and other methods to reduce catastrophic outcomes?…
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