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Due to popular request, the Call for papers deadline for DPSP 2012 - the IET's International Conference on Developments in Power System Protection - has been extended until 11 November.
Solar Power developer Enfinity is announcing a number of new projects at the Solar Power UK 2011 event, which will make solar energy more accessible and profitable to customers from large-scale landlords to individual occupiers. Martin Allman, Enfinity UK trade manager, is running Enfinity’s stand at the event. He said: Thousands of homes and businesses across the UK are now benefitting from solar power, with lower fuel bills and the ability to earn a tax-free income through the government’s feed-in-tariff scheme. But we are aware that there is still much to be done by us in the industry to make solar power even more accessible to all.”
The Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) today announces the winners of its 2011 Achievement Awards. The Faraday Medal, its most celebrated prize, will be awarded to Donald E Knuth, Professor Emeritus at the Computer Science Department, Stanford University and author of the seminal publication The Art of Computer Programming.
Outram Research has announced a new revision of firmware for their PM7000 power quality analyser, Waveform Capture Extension, which allows capture of long-duration transients and waveform events. The new feature is designed to help engineers troubleshoot long-duration problems and to see the consequential impact of disturbances.
A European low carbon finance summit convened yesterday aimed at overcoming the barriers to green investment in Central and Eastern Europe and highlighting the significant commercial opportunities of an ambitious low carbon transition.
Doble Engineering Company, a leader in developing utility diagnostic instruments and services to energy generation, transmission, delivery and industrial companies worldwide has introduced the Doble Delphi, a dissolved gas analysis (DGA) instrument for the continuous monitoring of dissolved gases in oil, one of the first indicators of deterioration in power transformers.
ELECSA, the certification arm of the ECA has responded to news of the delays to the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) by arguing: it is better to be late than never. The body which provides both Part P certification for electrical installations and has hundreds of contractors registered to its MCS scheme for renewable energies since it was established in 2009, says the five month delay will be worthwhile if it irons out any wrinkles in the process.
