Energy infrastructure Features for April 2009

Energy infrastructure Features Archive

Voltage control scheme proves its power on landfill site Voltage control scheme proves its power on landfill site

Voltage control technology developed by Senergy Econnect is enabling the connection of additional power generation on a remote part of the EDF Energy’s Southern Power Network area. Dr Vincent Thornley, Products Manager with Senergy Econnect and David Reid, a Project Manager at EDF Energy Networks explain.

Solar electricity in Australia Solar electricity in Australia

The challenge for Australia has always been to take clean energy inventions - such as those coming from the solar PV and Concentrating Solar Power (CSP)/Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) sectors - to market, in a very large country, where most of the population lives in the southeast corner, and which has substantial reserves of coal.