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Alastair Campbell will lead the line up of presenters at this year’s Energy Event on 11-12 September at the NEC, Birmingham. Against a backdrop of the Electricity Market Reform, the Blair government’s former director of communications and strategy will take a look at the issues around taking and communicating difficult but necessary policy change in a time when tough decisions need to be made.
Leading electrical installation supplier Rexel has won a new contract with Babcock International, a leading engineering support service organisation for sectors including defence, energy, transport and education.
With the government announcement ‘calls to reduce the subsidy by 25% have been resisted in favour of a 10% drop’, the renewables sector will no doubt be analysing the finely balanced issues of business and consumer energy bills, carbon reduction commitments, investment opportunity and complete decarbonisation.
Partial discharges (PD) often occur due to impending insulation faults when electrical and acoustic pulses are sent out simultaneously. Omicorn's PDL 650 localises the acoustic signals using multiple sensors spread out over the transformer. The PDL software then calculates the fault location based on the time difference between the incoming signals.
EMSc (UK) has announced the launch of its inaugural Manufacturing Sustainability Conference at the Magna Science Adventure Centre in Rotherham on Tuesday 18 September 2012.
Public support for nuclear energy has bounced back strongly following last year’s Fukushima crisis in Japan while opposition to building new nuclear stations on the site of old ones has fallen to its lowest level in five years, a new poll revealed today.
