Fujitsu system wins Energy Conservation Grand Prize
Fujitsu has received the Energy Conservation Grand Prize for 2018 in the Product and Business Model category of the Agency of Natural Resources and Energy Director-General's Awards for the first time. The prize was awarded for the Fujitsu Server Primergy Immersion...
France leads in renewable energy investments
Most G20 countries including several emerging countries have enhanced their conditions for investments in low-carbon energy in the past year. Nonetheless, more renewable energy investments have to be undertaken in order to meet the Paris climate targets. In addition,...
Fujitsu powers near-zero emissions data centre
Fujitsu server and storage technology is powering one of the world's first near-zero emissions data centers located inside a wind turbine in Germany. Part of the WindCORES initiative from German electricity provider WestfalenWIND IT, the new hosting solution enables...
Optimise power quality for critical applications
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...
Eaton wins top accolade
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 practitioners recognised by...
Coca-Cola taps into the sunshine
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...
All-weather surge protection with Dehnpatch
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...
Eaton wins Best Paper Award at POWER-GEN Africa
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 Eaton's premises...
Making hospitals safe from lightning, surges
From the skills and training of medical staff members to the sensitive equipment and sterile measures that are used on patients, hospitals are synonymous with efforts to save lives and improve health and well-being. The greatest threats to sensitive life-saving...
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 themselves...
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...