Energy efficiency News for September 2016

Energy efficiency News Archive

ViZn Energy Systems and Jabil Inala partner to power Africa

ViZn Energy Systems Inc. has announced that they will be partnering with Jabil Inala to offer turnkey storage solutions to the African power market. Africa has 13 percent of the world’s population, but accounts for only four percent of the world’s energy demand, leaving a gap of around 600 million people with no access to electricity according to the International Energy Agency’s Africa Energy Outlook.

ABB wins $85 million in orders to strengthen power grid in Canada

ABB has won orders worth over $85 million from leading Canadian utility Hydro-Québec (HQ) to upgrade its 800-kilovolt air-insulated switchgear (AIS) substations and transmission grid.

CooperÖstlund helps Andigestion Ltd to operate grid-free

With the decision to operate grid-free, Andigestion’s owners have collaborated with CooperÖstlund to install a 350Kw, 8-cylinder combined heat & power (CHP) engine.

Ceres Power, Cummins win US DOE award for solid oxide fuel cell power in data centres Ceres Power, Cummins win US DOE award for solid oxide fuel cell power in data centres

UK-based Ceres Power has a key development role in a recently selected US Department of Energy programme award to Cummins Inc, to develop a novel, modular 5 kW solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system that is scalable up to 100 kW, initially targeted at data centres.