Aluminium is enormously flexible, extremely usable and striking construction material due to anexclusive and invincibleblend of properties.Aluminium is the most commonly used metal in the world, next to iron. It is because aluminium has ...
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Voith has received an order for the modernization of the Mount Coffee hydropower plant at the St. Paul River in Liberia, West Africa: The company will modernize Francis turbines of the power plant and deliver new generators, the control ...
Europe's energy intensive industries are probably divided on the merits of power savings targets for 2030, but if the right mix of unambiguous and universal targets and measures can be agreed – and explained – opposition could ...
Tags: Construction, Glass, Glass Industry
Merely disposing of waste safely or cleaning up polluted water to make it safe is today just the start: Increasingly the emphasis is also on tapping into the energy potential that is hidden in waste materials, waste water and exhaust air. ...
Japan's Honda Motor Co Ltd has announced plans to discontinue the operations of its copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturing subsidiary Honda Soltec Co Ltd in spring 2014 and withdraw from the ...
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Mack Trucks says it is reducing the CO2 output from its Macungie truck plant by 215.3 tons per year, as a result of working with Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to identify ways to reduce its energy consumption. This is the third year ...
Tags: Transportation, auto parts, Truck
U.S. First Solar Group said that the first solar plant built in Dubai, which is the Middle East's largest photovoltaic power plant. The Maximum output power of 13MW of large-scale photovoltaic power plants have been completed in Dubai of ...
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Alcoa plans to idle its Canadian three Quebec smelter capacity if the company fails the power agreement with the Canadian public unit Hydro-Quebec energy. In theory, the total capacity of three smelters is 953000 tons. Alcoa has demanded ...
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Anvil Semiconductors Ltd of Coventry, UK has secured £1m in funding to help it speed the development and commercialization of its silicon carbide (SiC)-on-silicon technology for power devices. The benefit of SiC-based devices is ...
Tags: SiC power converters SiC-on-silicon driver ICs, Electrical, Electronics
Siemens, in partnership with Green Energy Options (GEO), has launched a solution for the deployment of smart meters in multi-dwellings, also known as multi-dwelling units (MDUs). These buildings, often high-rise, present a challenge for ...
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Utilities have installed more than 60 million smart meters in North America in the past decade. Now they have to figure out what to do with all the information the devices are generating. It’s a mind-boggling amount of data. ...
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Germany’s potential rejection of smart meters could pose a threat to $44 billion of smart grid investment, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan. The report says Germany, usually at the forefront of energy technology ...
Tags: Smart Grid Industry, Instruments, Meters
Sustainability and low energy solutions provider, Inteb, has issued a six-month warning to businesses still currently operating with traditional rather than smart meters. By April 2014, all Profile Class 05-08 electricity meters and all ...
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Cloud Peak Energy completed a test burn shipment to Japan during the third quarter and continues to look toward Asia for future demand growth, as increased domestic demand for US Powder River Basin coal during the period failed to boost ...
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Lark Energy's proposed 10MWp solar farm in Wellingborough has been given the green light by Wellingborough Council's planning committee. Cllr Martin Griffiths, vice-chairman of the council's planning committee, said: "The committee ...
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