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Written by Dr Steven Fawkes, ‘Energy Efficiency: The Definitive Guide to the Cheapest, Cleanest, Fastest Source of Energy’ provides managers, policy makers and governments with answers to the burning questions about energy efficiency and the world’s response to it.

Automation and Power World will be held in Mexico City on August 21 and 22.

By Stewart Thompson, CAS DataLoggers Power Factor (PF) is the ratio of real power to the apparent power flowing to the load from the source. From a business standpoint it’s important to understand how having a low Power Factor raises your plant or factory’s power bill.

Yogawa will supply a CENTUM VP integrated production control system, InsightSuite AE plant asset effectiveness optimization services, PRM plant resource manager, Exaquantum plant information management system, and a plant operation training simulator.

Overall, close to $78 trillion is expected to be spent globally between now and 2025 on five industry sectors - extraction, utilities, manufacturing, transport and social.

Siemens Energy will perform service and maintenance for three Siemens (SGT6-5000F) gas turbines that will be installed at Shell Canada's Carmon Creek project.

The power generation system will operate on the gas from a landfill in Jyvaskyla, Finland.

Generator sets are used for emergency standby, continuous prime power, and peak shaving applications across a wide range of industry sectors that tend to be quite volatile from year to year.

MISTRAS will provide Computed Radiography (CR) and Digital Radiography (DR) inspection services Balance of Plant (BOP), Flow Accelerated Corrosion (FAC) programs, in-service and vendor location inspection services.

But ABB had a lower operational EBITDA margin because of ongoing project-related challenges in the Power Systems (PS) division.

RENEX SOUTH AMERICA will be held 26 to 28 November 2014 at the FIERGS Exhibition and Convention Centre in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

OSI has been awarded a contract by Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L) to implement an Energy Management System (EMS) based on OSI’s monarch platform.

OSI will supply a SCADA/EMS system to Empresa de Transmisión Eléctrica Dominicana (ETED), which has more than 4,700km of 345kV, 230kV, 138kV and 69kV transmission lines and over 140 transmission substations.

Solectria manufactures high performance photovoltaic (PV) inverters for residential, commercial, and utility-scale power systems.

The design, based on the aerodynamics of a seagull’s wing, is 45% efficient and uses advanced automation control technology for continuous optimization based on wind conditions.

The Maritime Link Project is a 500 MW high voltage direct current (HVDC) connection that will enable clean, renewable electricity generated in Newfoundland and Labrador to be transmitted to the North American grid in Nova Scotia.

In the small town of Ybbs an der Donau, Kamstrup is installing the first complete smart metering project for the regional supplier of electric energy - E-Werk Wüster in Austria.

Metso will supply a DNA automation system, information management system and a fully integrated Machine Monitoring solution to predict mechanical faults in critical machinery.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Fluke recently introduced Fluke Connect, a system which allows maintenance technicians to wirelessly transmit measurement data from their test tools to their smart phones. There is a lot of hype about the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing. To date, from what I have seen on the market, Fluke Connect is the most useful, productivity-increasing industry solution based on these technologies.