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Omron Electronic Components Europe has launched a new high power PCB relay for use in AC wallboxes for Mode 3 AC EV charging stations. The G9KC relay provides the lowest contact resistance available on the market and produces significantly less load terminal heat rise when in operation compared to equivalent devices. This opens new opportunities…
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Image: Sense Sense and Xylem’s Sensus team are collaborating on what is expected to be the first electricity meter capable of capturing and processing 1MHz data in North America. The collaboration is combining Sense’s real-time edge intelligence software in the Sensus electric meter. With the increase in fidelity to 1MHz sampling, Sense should be able…
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Image courtesy Ames Laboratory Ames National Laboratory, a US DoE Office of Science national laboratory operated by Iowa State University, has developed a new type of high voltage overhead power conductor made of an aluminium-calcium composite for increased efficiency. Material scientists from the laboratory are moving into the field-testing stage of the new type of…
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Image courtesy 123rf A vehicle to grid (V2G) trial in the UK is testing workplace V2G charging technology, offering trial participants free V2G chargers as incentive. The V2VNY project aims to demonstrate, test and refine V2G technology, pushing the boundaries of charging technology and paving the way for its broader adoption. Trial participants will be…
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Image courtesy 123rf Red Eléctrica, the Redeia company responsible for the transmission and operation of the Spanish electricity system, has announced the deployment of more than 750 dynamic line rating (DLR) devices on overhead power lines. One of the technologies recommended by the European Commission’s Grid Action Plan to make networks more efficient, the DLR…
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Image: 123rf A CenterPoint Energy executive defended the utility’s preparation and response to Hurricane Beryl after the storm knocked out power to 2.6 million of the utility’s customers in Houston. Speaking before the Houston City Council on Wednesday afternoon, Brad Tutunjian, CenterPoint Energy’s vice president of regulatory affairs, unpacked the scale of the utility’s response,…
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A new report published by the UK’s Royal Agricultural University exploring the attitudes, concerns and opportunities for farmers within the growing sector of cultivated meat is calling for further engagement between farmers and cultivated meat companies to avoid polarisation. The report, which follows cultivated meat bans in Italy and the United States that were partly…
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Kemtile, a division of Stonhard, has delivered another “single-source” brewery flooring solution – but this time for Odin’s Manx Beer at its brand-new brewery on the Isle of Man. As part of the brewer’s ambitions to set up a new 1,000-litre facility with four fermenters, a grain store and a cold room, Odin’s Manx Beer required…
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Gregg Wallace will be spending a day at the PPMA Show exploring the fascinating world of processing and packaging machinery, robotics and industrial vision systems as he goes ‘Inside the Exhibition’. The PPMA Show organisers, Automate UK, have been busy planning Automate UK revealed that the well-known broadcaster, entrepreneur and writer, Gregg Wallace, will add…
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DigiKey, a leading global commerce distributor offering the largest selection of technical components and automation products in stock for immediate shipment, announced today that it was awarded the 2023 Global High Service Distributor of the Year award from Littelfuse, an industrial technology manufacturing company empowering a sustainable, connected and safer world. Littelfuse awarded DigiKey the…
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