15 May 2012
Two Latin American utilities sign agreement with Ventyx … while Honduras hydropower plant receives partial credit guarantee … and Brazil receives over 52GW of new power projects.
Ventyx: Closes Multimillion Dollar Network Control Deals with Leading Utilities in Latin America
Ventyx reports that it has signed multimillion-dollar contracts with power utilities:
CDEC-SIC in Chile and
UTE in Uruguay.
Each utility will receive a complete control center solution. The Ventyx Network Manager™ SCADA/Energy Management System (EMS) solution will ensure the “secure, efficient and reliable management” of the electric networks.
Roberto Falco, Vice...
16 May 2012
The factors that influence changes in the electricity sector … Nissan and GE prepare the grid for the EV “culture” … and California is ready to rumble about the net-metering cap!
Smart Grid Sherpa – Power grid changes from Japan to California – the inevitable shift in our energy industry
Elaine Hsieh of DNV KEMA writes that California’s governor issued a “bold executive order” that targets net-zero energy consumption for:
Half the square footage of all state-owned buildings by 2025
All new or renovated state buildings beginning design after 2025
It also requires new or renovated state buildings larger than 10,000 square...
16 May 2012
Aussie’s NSW biodiesel plant gets go ahead … while Kiwis prepare for GreenWave’s easy-to-use HEMs … Origin Energy enters record-breaking deal … and NZ smart homes project gets top tech platform!
EnergyBusinessNews.com: New South Wales biodiesel plant ago
Lachlan Colquhoun announced that NSW Premier, Barry O’Farrell, gave the green light to a US$273m soybean processing and biodiesel production facility. The Port Kembla, south-Sydney factory will produce soybean meal, used in stock feed, and also soy biodiesel, to be used as fuel.
The plant will produce 288 million litersof biodiesel annually to supply to major companies like Caltex, Xstrata and BHP. The company in charge of the...
15 May 2012
China and EU co-operate on shared energy goals … Endesa rolls out smart microgrid in La Graciosa (Canary Island) … EU DSOs should be incentivized.
China Daily: China seeks to expand green energy ties
Lan Lan of China Daily reports that China and the European Union (EU) will work more closely in the alternative energy industry, in terms of:
Energy saving
Emission cuts
Nuclear technologies – Including uranium enrichment and experimentalfast reactors
New-energy vehicles
Han Wenke, director-general of the Energy Research Institute under the National Development and Reform Commission, points out that...
15 May 2012
Japan sounds alarm bells at electricity shortages… Smarter innovations stand to overshadow AMI … South Korean lawmakers unite for carbon trading vote … China courts EU green energy leaders
Prensa Latina: Japan admits to seriousness of energy crisis
Prensa Latina reports that Japan’s Minister of Industry, Yukio Edano, acknowledged his country may face an unprecedented energy crisis. The minister’s admission comes after Japan retired the last of its 54 nuclear plants on May 5, 2012, thereby losing about 30% of its electricity generation.
Edano said there...
15 May 2012
As Alstom Grid wins substation contract for Egypt’s biggest wind farm, Egypt moves closer to its 2020 renewable energy goal.
What happened
The Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) awarded Alstom Grid a €12m (US$15.5m) contract to manufacture and deliver a Gas-Insulated Substation (GIS) to the new Gabal El-Zeit wind farm by 2013, reports Electric Energy Online.
The wind farm, Egypt’s largest onshore, is located on the Gulf of Suez and covers 625km2. The new GIS substation will be the first to transmit the farm-generated power to the electricity network. Alstom...
17 May 2012
“It is so easy to develop such waste management projects because there really is so much support out there across all sectors for such projects.”
Exclusive interview with Palesa Mathibeli, Senior Project Manager, Waste Treatment Technology Project, City of Johannesburg. She will address the Waste Management track at African Utility Week in May on the first PPP in South Africa to create a waste-to-energy facility.
What will the City of Johannesburg waste-to-energy project entail?
The waste-to-energy project, or more specifically, the Waste Treatment Technology Project will entail a new waste disposal method in which in...
15 May 2012
Smart grid plans in Africa … while Eight19 solar technology expands … and the objectives of the South African Smart Grid Initiative (SASGI.)
Smart Grid News: Is there a smart grid in Africa's future? The answer may surprise you
Doug Peeples of Smart Grid News points out that despite the continent’s “terrible odds,” some countries are using smart grid initiatives to help their economies recover and develop a smart, sustainable energy future.
Although some infrastructures are seen as “inadequate, unreliable and...
11 May 2012
It’s easy to get the impression that technology game-changers happen in a near flash. And the stories of Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple leave us thinking that genius pops right out of the dorm room.
But in the energy industry it’s not that easy. The innovation we see today often stems from years of late nights, deep discussion and hard negotiation.
Take, for example, the Massachusetts story. The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy named it number one for energy efficiency in October. You may wonder, how did that happen? Why not California – isn’t it the greenest of states?
But for Steve Cowell, chairman and CEO of Conservation Services Group, it...
15 May 2012
Costa Rica’s Reventazón Hydroelectric Dam receives a US$670m loan from the Inter-American Development Bank, bringing the country closer to its 100% renewables by 2021.
What happened
Costa Rica’s biggest, and most intricate...
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