Nov 16, 2018
As global energy consumption continues to rise, energy is becoming more decentralised and decarbonised. While demand is estimated to increase by 70% by 2040, 50% of new energy generation capacity will be represented by solar and storage by 2030. In answer to these...
Nov 2, 2018
Power management company Eaton Africa’s operations manager Eugén Ranft won the “Distinguished Industry Award” at the inaugural Africa International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. The award is presented to...
Sep 6, 2018
Coca-Cola Beverages SA (CCBSA) is going solar by installing rooftop solar photovoltaic units at 11 of its sites, with a combined installed capacity of 10,4MWp renewable energy once completed. Under a 25-year power purchase agreement with the Mulilo Group, the plants...
Sep 3, 2018
Experts in the fields of safety, monitoring and network communication are familiar with the problem of surge arresters often needing to be installed in extremely exposed locations. This generally meant that they had to be laboriously protected against weather-related...
Aug 24, 2018
Power management company Eaton South Africa won the Best Paper Award for its ‘Microgrids for Commercial and Industrial’ paper at the Power-Gen and DistribuTech Africa Conference, held in Johannesburg. An example case study of a microgrid installed on...
Jul 26, 2018
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...
