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£100m turbine upgrade nears completion

Drax Power Station cements position as the cleanest, most efficient power station in the UK

New venture to advance 'cleaner coal' technologies in China

GE and Shenhua open cleaner coal technology joint venture in China

Custom tape-in-frame solution

Saint-Gobain Solar to launch SolarBond ReadyFrame at Intersolar Europe
 
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Engines & Turbines

£100m turbine upgrade nears completion

Drax Power Station cements position as the cleanest, most efficient power station in the UK

POWER-GEN Europe 2012: Integrating the power sector

Michael Suess, CEO of Siemens Energy Sector confirmed as keynote speaker

Energy and the economy: quest for growth

International group of industry, policy and financial leaders to convene 31st annual IHS CERA energy conference

Maintenance

Power solution helps community after natural disaster

Generator sets provided temporary power while new power plant was constructed. Joel Martin reports

Sustainability in the industrial chain

Apparent adversaries become partners in the bigger picture. Femke Schaefer reports

Maintenance key to plant life extension

Serious investment is being made in maintenance and refurbishment of power generating plant as the world's demand for electricity continues to grow. Sean Ottewell reports

IT & Automation

COP17: Reactions from the carbon and climate change industry

Global leaders have until 2017 to devise a legally binding agreement to limit climate change warming to 2degC

Updated noise mapping software

Improved data handling system, an intuitive Windows-based graphical user interface - and integrated project organisation options

Getting the best value smart meter for your money

Utilities and governments must think ahead when planning a smart meter rollout - early obsolescence is an expensive error. Customise and build in future-proofing to stay ahead of the game, advises Mark England

 

Transmission

Rising to the challenge of cybersecurity

A host of government initiatives and new technologies are helping to raise cybersecurity standards within the power industry. Sean Ottewell examines the consequences

Smart grids - how far have we come?

Smart grids reduce energy network outages and disruption, minimise risk, lower costs, improve operational efficiency and help increase environmental sustainability

Electricity access still insufficient in developing countries

Lack of access to electricity results in health, environmental, and livelihood challenges, says Worldwatch Institute

Renewable Energy

Are tariff changes forcing the sun to go down on the solar industry?

Vicky Kenrick looks at the impact of the UK government's Feed in Tariff (FiT), which aims to increase the level of renewable energy used in the UK by businesses and households

Germany: 36 per cent of electricity in to be generated from renewables by 2020

This growth will require substantial investments in upgrading the existing power transmission infrastructure

Hydrogen fuel cells

Studying dynamic behaviour of alkaline fuel cells being planned for the European Space Agency's Hermes spacecraft

Waste-to-Energy

Lack of skills and labour for plant management restrains market growth

A number of new and emerging technologies are able to produce energy from waste, which could be broadly classified as based on the nature of conversion

High performance fillers 'eco' fillers

RockTron and Eurostar Engineering Plastics announced grade of polypropylene containing RockTron's 100 per cent recycled Eco-Mineral Fillers

Wake up and smell the willow

Many UK power stations are now burning plant matter, or biomass, as well as coal in a bid to cut their carbon footprint

 
 
 

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