The size and complexity of power networks makes remote distributed asset management difficult — but not impossible ~ The loss of electricity can have a significant impact, whether on the day-to-day operations of a business, the productivity of staff working from home or the bottom line of power asset management companies and grid operators. Here, Beth Ragdale, product manager at energy control system expert ...

Coinciding with its first-year anniversary, the global technology and market leader announces that it will be changing its name and corporate brand from October 2021Hitachi ABB Power Grids today announced that it will be evolving to become Hitachi Energy from October 2021. The decision to change name has board and shareholder consent and coincides with the business' first-year anniversary since it started o ...

Eaton’s latest iCube 2.0 and 9PX UPS product enhancements aim to deliver edge-deployable, energy-efficient solutions to organisations looking to future-proof their data centre infrastructure. Global power management company Eaton recently announced two new additions to its micro data centre (MDC) and 9PX uninterruptible power supply (UPS) series – the iCube 2.0 and the 9PX lithium-ion UPS. Tailored to addre ...

 Smaller RTUs can gather data from sites that are too small for economic data collection by existing equipment. As the energy industry diversifies — often by connecting smaller power generation assets to the main grid — a problem has arisen. Traditional remote telemetry units (RTUs), used to monitor points where large generation plants connect with the grid, are often over ...

In Indonesia, the power systems face a wide range of issues that make commitments to lowering carbon emissions and transitioning to renewables all the more challenging. Find out how PLN, Indonesia’s state electricity company, is managing the power supply that fuels the largest economy in Southeast Asia and why flexibility is so vital to the power systems. Solving both old and new challenges with more flexib ...

Chinese scientists have proposed the construction of a “super grid” that would connect Northeast Asia’s major economies and make renewable energy as cheap as coal, they say. China, Russia, Mongolia, South Korea, North Korea and Japan would all be connected. The region currently consumes a third of the world’s electricity, with demand set to double by 2050. According to the study, published this week in the ...

Contributing to a stable supply of electricity by enabling efficient interconnection between Tokyo and Chubu regions with HVDC TechnologyTOKYO, Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501) announced that the operations of the Hida-Shinano frequency conversion facility have commenced, enabling the Shin-Shinano Substation of TEPCO Power Grid, Inc. (TEPCO) to be connected to the Hida Converter Station of Chubu Electric Power Gri ...

LS Cable and System Asia announced on March 23 that LS-VINA, its subsidiary in Vietnam, will supply undersea cables for an offshore wind farm project in Tan Phu Dong, southern Vietnam. The client is Power Construction Joint Stock Co. No.1 (PCC1), a plant construction company in Vietnam. The order amounts to about US$5 million and delivery will be made within 2021. "Vietnam plans to secure wind power capacit ...

The deal will deepen China’s involvement in the Lao government’s goal of transforming itself into the “battery of Southeast Asia.” Earlier this week, the government of Laos and a majority Chinese-owned company signed a 25-year concession agreement that allows the company to build and manage a large part of the country’s power grid. According to a report by Radio Free Asia’s Lao service, the company, Electri ...

Terra Drone Corporation, the world’s leading drone solution provider, today announced the closing of a JPY 1.5 billion (USD 14.4 million) Series A round. The fundraising was organised by INPEX, Japan’s largest oil and gas exploration and production company, and Nanto CVC No.2 Investment LLP (General Partner: Venture Labo Investment and Nanto Capital Partners, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nanto Bank) through ...