Edinburgh Council is spending £2.15 million on upgrading 6,000 street lights across the city, primarily using LED and PLL - outdoor long life fluorescent - technology. The upgrade follows the Council's White Light Pilot Project ...
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India is targeting a gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 8-9 per cent in the coming years and to enable this growth, the economy needs the support of its power sector and India's electrical equipment industry is expected to play a ...
After two years of a punishing downturn, the global solar industry is on the rebound, said Ash Sharma, senior research director for solar at IHS. "Worldwide PV installations are set to rise by double digits in 2014, solar manufacturing ...
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Egypt-based long steel producer Egyptian Steel has announced that it has signed an agreement with state-run Electric Transmission for a permanent 24-hour-a-day supply of electricity for its Beni Suief and Al Ain El Sokhna plants. Egyptian ...
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Smarter, more efficient electricity meters aim to revolutionise energy distribution but WA researchers fear hackers could easily exploit numerous security flaws and wreck havoc on power grids. Smart meters measure a customer's electricity ...
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Bordeaux Digital Printink, a leading innovator of a wide range of inks and coatings for a variety of demanding inkjet applications, printing technologies and techniques, and its distributor BRS, showcased Bordeaux’s broad portfolio of ...
All new electricity generation in Australia will come from renewable energy through 2020, according to a new report from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) [PDF]. The bulk of the new power will be wind, with large-scale scale ...
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Voltage optimisation has been delivering energy savings and cutting carbon emissions for a decade now.It is a proven and reliable technology,and one of only three technologies applicable for a new batch of carbon reduction funding,having ...
China's electricity consumption, an indicator of economic activity, rose 8.5 percent year-on-year to 448.5 billion kilowatt-hours in November. According to data from the National Energy Administration on Saturday, China's total power ...
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China's electricity consumption grew 7.5 percent year on year to 4.83 trillion kilowatt hours (kwh) between January and November, according to the China Electricity Council (CEC). Use by primary industry totaled 93.5 billion kwhs, up 0.1 ...
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The world will require all forms of energy over the next quarter century to meet a greater than one-third increase in demand that will be driven by population growth, improved living standards and expanded urbanization, according to ...
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Driven mainly by heat spreaders for high-power device thermal management, the diamond materials market for semiconductor devices will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14% to more than $43m in 2020, according to the base ...
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Official data showed on Monday that China's electricity consumption, a common indicator of economic activity, rose 10.4 percent year on year in September. The growth, though lower than August's 13.7-percent rise, accelerated from the ...
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China attracted 8.38 billion U.S. dollars in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in August, up 0.62 percent year on year, data from the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) showed Tuesday. The increase was down sharply from a 24.13 percent jump in July ...
China’s electricity consumption rose 13.7 percent year on year in August, its fastest growth since March 2012, the National Energy Administration said yesterday. The figure also marked the fourth straight month power use had risen, ...
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