Effective monitoring can save your UPS

The cornerstone of network reliability and availability, the uninterruptible power supply – or UPS has, for more than three decades, ensured the protection of hardware, software and data for small, medium and large networks all around the globe. While UPSs...

Schneider Electric debuts Easy UPS 3S

Schneider Electric South Africa has announced the launch of its Easy UPS 3S in Africa. Making business continuity easy for small and medium businesses, Easy UPS 3S is a 10-to-40kVA Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) that offers robust electrical specifications and...

Thyssenkrupp launches advanced water electrolysis

As renewable energy sources continue their global success story, the demand for integrating them into the current South African energy and industry landscape grows Thyssenkrupp now offers a key technology for renewables integration: Industrial scale water electrolysis...

Wind-free technology drives energy efficiency

Since the recording of global temperatures began in 1951, the 17 warmest years were within the past 18 years. Natural resources are continually under pressure and the global temperature is rising. South Africa’s natural resources are strained as the main...

Predictive maintenance unlocks lower costs

African power utilities are evolving as they are unbundled into separate generation, transmission and distribution companies and as they come under growing pressure to service unserved communities as well as to support industrial growth. By Colin Beaney, global...

GE tests desulphurisation at Kusile

GE’s Steam Power business has successfully completed tests for performance of Unit 1, of the Wet Flue Gas Desulphurisation Plant (WFGD) at Eskom’s Kusile newly built plant, the first air quality control system of its kind in Africa. The WFGD Plant will be...