IDG News Service - The U.S. is facing a dramatically increasing threat from cyber attacks and a future attack on the country's critical infrastructure could have an effect similar to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks of 2001, the U.S. ...
Tags: cyber attacks, critical infrastructure, Internet, cyber security, US
Tehran Times reported that a thermal power plant with a generation capacity of 2.8 GW was officially inaugurated in Pakdasht, a city near Tehran. The project started in 2003 and cost EUR 270 million plus IRR 5 trillion to complete. The ...
Tags: thermal power plant, electricity generation, power generation capacity
Business Standard reported that Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd has formed a jJV with Odisha Power Transmission Company Ltd to develop transmission lines in the state. The two power transmission utilities will have equal share in the ...
Tags: Business Standard, PGCIL, OPTCL, Odisha
Imagine for a moment that you have a credit card with a limit of a few trillion dollars but with one caveat: you need to use those funds exclusively to provide for your family. It sounds easy, until you realize your “family” is ...
Tags: China, Canada, Metallurgy, Mineral Energy
Iran is the world's 14th leading electricity producer, Mr Mohammad Behzad deputy energy minister of Iranian said that the latest statistics released by the International Energy Agency. Mr Behzad said that Iran has risen two places since ...
Tags: electricity, International Energy Agency, power generation capacity
Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab is developing a secure operating system for industrial control systems, its chairman and CEO Eugene Kaspersky said on Tuesday. "Quite a few rumors about this project have appeared already on the ...
"Indian providers have had to deal with these contingencies-international telecom cables being sliced, large union strikes that impact workers-so they are generally more prepared to deal with [them]," says Steve Hall, partner with ...
Tags: Indian, telecom cables, outsourcing consultancy, ISG
HexaTech Inc of Morrisville, NC, USA has received a $2.2m award from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to enable the development of “new power semiconductor technology for the ...
Tags: power semiconductor technology, Energy, electrical power grid
(China Glass Network)Recently,Ministry of Finance,Ministry of Science&Technology and National Energy Administration issued"Notice about Golden Sun Demonstration Work"(hereafter referred to as"Notice")to speed up the application of ...
Tags: photovoltaic industry
In 1859, there was a solar event so extreme that witnesses reported seeing brilliant lights, electrical flashes, red glows and other aurora events, even in the South. It was the lead story on Sept. 3 of that year in the Memphis Daily, ...
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December 10, 2012 - New research by the University of Delaware and Delaware Technical Community College suggests that, by 2030, renewable energy could fully power a large electric grid 99.9% of the time at costs comparable to today’s ...
Cisco plans to expand its services business over the next several years, seeing a more important role for itself in a world of connected machines and devices. The company will build up its managed services and consulting services, ...
Tags: Cisco, highlightedpost, mobile cloud, Service businesses
MNA reported that Iran’s electricity exports to neighboring states have increased by about 40% as the Islamic Republic is helping them overcome regular power outages. As per report, Iran has boosted its power output in recent ...
Tags: Iran, electricity export, power outage, power
Under funding from the National Science Foundation's Cyber-Physical Systems Program, a University of Notre Dame research group is attempting to develop mathematical algorithms to help guide the integration of plug-in hybrid electric ...
Tags: Cyber-Physical Systems Program, hybrid electric vehicles, PEV system
PTI reported that blue chip Central Public Sector Enterprises like Coal India, Indian Oil Corporation, ONGC and SAIL have not fully utilized their funds allocated for undertaking corporate social responsibility projects in 2011-12. Mr ...