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Eaton has launched a new guide for its power distribution product range entitled Smart solutions for electrical distribution in commercial and industrial applications.
Due to their exposed installation sites and large collection areas, photovoltaic (PV) installations are at a high risk of damage due to both direct and indirect lightning strikes. The subsequent damage from these surges can cause serious damage to PV installations, expensive inverters and the building electrical system.
Don’t get me wrong, I understand the 43p tariff was unsustainable. But, how come I thought that from the outset and yet DECC’s experts didn’t? From my point of view it is the rate of change that is shocking. The FiT is/was too high, but only a fool would fail to see that slashing it in one fell swoop was going to cause panic in a young industry.
Besides the existing program of gPV string and main fuses, DC & AC Surge-Trap Surge Protective Devices (SPDs), DC switches and junction boxes, Mersen has launched a brand-new solution : PV string monitoring.
National Grid’s Electricity Alliance Central (EAC), a consortium of ABB, Morgan Sindall and Atkins, has been awarded a five-year contract extension to deliver major enhancements to the UK’s electrical transmission infrastructure. These enhancements will primarily involve the design, construction and commissioning of 400 kV and 275 kV transmission substations.
ABB has been awarded a major contract by energy company E.ON to supply the HV installation for a biomass-fired renewable energy plant under construction at Blackburn Meadows, near Sheffield.
The Midlands office of independent multi-utility services provider, Energetics, has been appointed by Network Rail to provide a new high voltage energy supply to New Street Station as part of the £600m New Street Gateway project.
CG has been awarded the contract for the design, engineering, supply and installation of the onshore and offshore substations at the 219 MW Humber Gateway offshore wind farm in the UK.
Nexans has successfully commissioned the world’s first resistive superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) based on second-generation superconductor tapes.
