ELPA aims to be SA’s lightning protection body
Last year, lightning deaths in the US reached an all-time low in that country's recorded history. This is according to a year-end report published recently by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which cited a total of 16 deaths across the US....
Engie, Fenix complete acquisition
Global utility company Engie and off-grid energy firm Fenix International have closed their acquisition agreement. Fenix is the first Solar Home System ompany to join a major worldwide energy company and has already delivered clean, safe and affordable energy and...
Fairbanks Morse shows PoweReliability-as-a-Service
Fairbanks Morse will be at Power & Electricity World Africa from 27 to 28 March, presenting its PoweReliability-as-a-Service platform powered by the Trident OP engine featuring a fuel-efficient opposed piston architecture. The Fairbanks Morse...
Does your data centre need more cooling?
Data centres are out of date, writes Neil Cameron, Johnson Controls area GM: building efficiency - Africa. They are built to last but, let's face it, technology changes fast. What's under the hood in a data centre today often far outpaces the capabilities of the...
Fujitsu wins environmental award
The Fujitsu Group Environmental Report 2017 has received the Grand Award of Global Warming Countermeasures Report (Japanese Environment Minister's Award) as part of the 21st Environmental Communication Awards, sponsored by Japan's Ministry of the Environment and the...
Track the impact you have on the earth
Schneider Electric and Global Footprint Network (GFN) launched a new mobile-friendly Footprint Calculator for Earth Overshoot Day 2017, which enables everyone to track their ecological footprint and personal Earth Overshoot Day. Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when...
Distributed generation saves costs
Cummins and NRG Energy of the US have announced a strategic commercial partnership to deploy a resilient, cleaner, and cost-effective distributed generation platform for commercial and industrial customers. This platform is believed to be the first-of-its-kind in the...
Cloud-enabled UPS for distributed IT
Schneider Electric has introduced what it believes to be the first cloud-enabled uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for distributed IT environments, letting SMEs stay connected while managing the health of their UPS systems. UPS battery failure on any piece of...
SustainPower unveils local biogas generator
SustainPower, together with Unique Hydra, has delivered a locally manufactured biogas electrical power generator to ibert, one of the leading biogas companies in southern Africa. The containerised combined heat and power unit (CHP) produces electricity and heat in a...
Li-ion UPS batteries offer lower TCO
Schneider Electric aims to capitalise on its first-to-market advantage in lithium-ion (li-ion) batteries, as Bloomberg predicts big gains in data centre UPS systems. "Key to this growth is the lower total cost of ownership," explains Riaan de Leeuw, vice-president: IT...
Wesbank switches on to solar power
The switch has been flipped on a world-class solar panel installation at the WesBank and FNB Campus in Fairland, north of Johannesburg. Just 12 months after construction began on the large-scale renewable energy project, the 150 000 square metre Fairland Campus now...
Commvault Announces ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS
Commvault has announced ScaleProtectTM with Cisco UCS, a scale-out data protection solution combining Commvault HyperScale Software with Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS). ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS provides enterprises a single, integrated solution that...