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Hitachi, Ltd. announced that as of February 2023, Hitachi received an MSCI ESG Rating of AA. MSCI ESG Research provides MSCI ESG Ratings on global public and a few private companies on a scale of AAA (leader) to CCC (laggard), according to exposure to industry-specific ESG risks and the ability to manage those risks relative to peers. sustainability initiatives In this assessment, Hitachi has been highly evaluated for its sustainability initiatives, such as the promotion of compliance trainin...

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announces that it ranks fourth globally and first among Japanese companies in terms of international patent applications filed in 2022 according to the Switzerland-based World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). A high level of both ranking and the number of patent applications reflect Mitsubishi Electric's strategy to actively promote international patent applicants along with the globalization of its business. In 2022, the company has ranked within the...

Jiangsu SHEMAR Power Co., Ltd. is pleased to announce its expansion into the North American market with the establishment of a new local subsidiary located in Memphis, TN. The company is now well-positioned to bring its innovative solutions and unwavering commitment to support the ongoing evolution, expansion and modernization of the electric grid with our carbon reduction technologies and exceptional customer service. Cutting-edge T&D external insulation products Shemar aims to achieve s...

C&S Electric celebrated their Foundation Day with great excitement and enthusiasm at all their marketing offices and manufacturing plants. The central event of the grand celebration was held at their Noida Phase 2 plant, which was attended by more than 2100 employees who participated with joy. The gathering was addressed by the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Mr. Manav Adlakha and Managing Director (MD) & Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr. Prakash Chandraker. C&S Ele...

Ameren Illinois announced key senior leadership changes to support the company's strategic priorities and the retirement of two vice presidents, according to Lenny Singh, Chairman and President of Ameren Illinois.  Kristol Simms has been promoted to the newly created position of Vice President of Clean Energy Transition, Economic, Community and Business Development for Ameren Illinois. In this newly created position, the functions responsible for energy efficiency, beneficial electrifica...

  Schneider Electric, the pioneer in the digital transformation of energy management and industrial automation, appointed Ruben Llanes as Chief Executive Officer of AutoGrid Systems Inc. (AutoGrid), a Schneider Electric company advancing solutions for the grid. Llanes will also assume the responsibility of Segment President for Schneider Electric’s North American Power and Grid segment. Llanes succeeds AutoGrid founder Amit Narayan, who will continue to serve on AutoGrid’s...

An ABB delegation joined Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon and the UK’s Secretary of State for New Energy and Net Zero, Grant Shapps MP, at an energy transition summit on Wednesday 1 March in London. The one-day event, attended by 500 energy business leaders and government officials from Norway and the UK, strengthened collaborations between the two countries to achieve net zero by 2050. Event Agenda The event emphasized the significance of policy frameworks, investments, advancement in dig...

When thinking of gas detector calibration and how often it must be performed, it is dependent on many variables. First and foremost is determining if a gas sensor is out of calibration. The best way to establish this is through a 'bump' or functional test using a certified standard gas mixture of known concentration. If the device is functioning properly and still measuring gas within tolerance, calibration is unnecessary. Bump testing should be performed as regular maintenance on any gas det...

Franklin Electric Co., Inc. announced the formation of a new employee resource group (ERG) dedicated to providing an avenue for women to grow both professionally and personally through education, networking, and advocacy. Known as Franklin Women’s Network (FWN), the Group’s promise is to, “Build a welcoming, inclusive community, provide professional alliances, equip Franklin women with relevant development tools and resources, and guide Franklin women to identify and achieve...

C&S Electric celebrated the Foundation Day with great excitement and enthusiasm at all the marketing offices and manufacturing plants. The central event of the grand celebration was held at our Noida Phase 2 plant, which was attended by more than 2100 employees who participated with joy. new heights of success Mr. Chandraker spoke about the progress they have made in the last two years since the acquisition The gathering was addressed by the CFO, Mr. Manav Adlakha, and MD & CEO, Mr....

Switches are no longer the blind, ‘dumb’ electromechanical devices of a generation ago. Signals from sensors in critical safety loops (e.g. protecting against high temperature or pressure) are typically integrated with the plant control system via a discrete or analog input channel. A switch provides a binary (on/off) input, while transmitters provide a continuous (4 to 20 mA) analog input. Both signal types have a role to play in Safety Controls, Alarms and Interlocks (SCAI) inclu...

Volta Trucks, the disruptive all-electric commercial vehicle manufacturer and services provider, has confirmed that the European Investment Bank (EIB) is engaging with the company for €40 million venture debt financing. The funding from the EIB would support the rollout of Volta Trucks’ Truck as a Service (TaaS) infrastructure over the period 2023-2026. electrification of the road transport sector The aim of the European Investment Bank’s funding support for Volta Trucks is t...

Sval, Storegga, and Neptune have formed a partnership to apply for a CO2 storage license in the Norwegian North Sea for the Trudvang project. The Trudvang license, located to the East of the Sleipner field, has the potential to store up to 225 mn tonnes of CO2 and comes after the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy announced a new area in the North Sea for applications related to injection and storage of CO2. Assessment of the CCS value chain Truls Olsen-Skåre, Senior Vice Presid...

The ONE Series Field Safety Transmitter is a complete safety instrumented system (SIS) all together in a single package. The ONE Series Field Safety Transmitter complies with the IEC 61511, the technical standard that ensures the safety of industrial processes using instrumentation. The One Series Field Safety Transmitter is Exida certified. It has a Safe Failure Fraction (SFF) of 98.8% and a Probability of Failure on Demand (PFDavg) ≤ 2×10-3. Also, the Safety Transmitter won the Exida...

Back in 1681, Denis Pepin designed the first pressure relief valve to keep his experimental steam chamber from exploding. His idea was simple – to use the process’ own power as the safety operator, rather than an external system. Fast forward to 1931 when the modern rupture disc was invented using the tensile strength of various materials to provide both barrier and relief if things went wrong. That same year, United Electric Controls connected a metal bellows to the snap-action ele...

Many times, when specifying replacement switches I&E technicians may feel most comfortable replacing “like-with-like”, and stick with a mechanical switch. Users may be acclimated toward electromechanical switch maintenance and may not be fully aware of the hidden maintenance costs vs. those associated with an electronic switch serving the same function. Electromechanical switches  Electromechanical switches are built from an array of moving parts including mechanical swit...

Each year the folks on Hunt Electric’s Employee Engagement Committee round up a list of local organizations that they would like to consider donating their annual employee match funds to. The list is long, votes are cast, and they pair it down to three. Then, for most of the month of December, employees are able to drop off a monetary donation or have it directly taken from their payroll check. Hunt Electric makes a 100% company match donation. Hunt Electric’s Employee Match Progra...

SemperPower proudly announces that it is entering the realization phase of its third large-scale energy storage project: Project Pollux. This battery system, with a capacity of 30 megawatts and a capacity of 68-megawatt hours, will be the largest operational battery energy storage project in the Netherlands when it comes into operation in the fall of 2023, and thus also one of the largest in Northwest Europe. Together with their project partners, they are accelerating the Dutch energy transiti...

Plug Power Inc. and ACCIONA Energía have presented to the Government of Navarra (Spain) their Valle H2V Navarra joint project to build an industrial-scale, green hydrogen production plant in Rocaforte, Sangüesa. The project, currently in the development stage, involves the construction of a 25MW electrolyzer on the land plots adjacent to the Sangüesa biomass plant. The electrolyzer will be powered by hybrid renewable energy produced at a photovoltaic plant (25MW) and a wind far...

Delta, a global provider of power and thermal management solutions announced it has been honored for the second consecutive year as one of the Top 100 Global Innovators™ (2023) by Clarivate for its superior innovation and patent intellectual property portfolio. As of the end of 2022, the total number of patents approved for Delta exceeded 15,000 mainly in the United States, mainland China, Taiwan, and Europe, of which 1,070 patents were approved in 2022 alone. Innovative ideas and soluti...

AEI Cables has made an appeal to individual decision-makers in the electrical supply chain including building managers: “Make yourselves more aware of the dangers of not using approved cabling for Category 3 Control fire performance cables.” The company has been communicating the dangers of not following the technical guidance for the selection and installation of cables for Category 3 Control fire performance cables under the revised British Standard. It has sent out a message to t...

The reliability of CORE’s electric service ­— already better than the industry average — improved in 2023. The System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI), or average outage duration in minutes for each member served, decreased from 92 minutes in 2022 to 63 minutes in 2023 — an improvement of nearly 32%. CORE’s SAIDI is about half the five-year national average of approximately 120 minutes, as reported by the U.S. Energy Information Admini...

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has announced that it entered into a share transfer agreement on February 16 to wholly acquire Scibreak, a Swedish-based company that develops direct current circuit breakers (DCCBs). The two firms aim to strengthen the competitiveness of their unified business by working closely on developing DCCB technologies for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) systems to support the increasing global deployment of renewable energy. Purpose of Acquisition The introduction...

Horisont Energi and Neptune Energy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the international energy major - E.ON with the aim to develop a European carbon capture and storage (CCS) value chain.  The MoU covers several areas such as project financing, funding, and the development of a complete value chain for CO2 handling. If Horisont Energi´s and Neptune Energy´s application for CO2 storage for the Errai project is awarded, the intention is that this will be the fi...

A Cummins Inc.-led project to develop battery charging and hydrogen (H2) fueling stations along the Interstate 80 Midwest Corridor will accelerate with the Biden Administration’s announcement this week of the standards and funding for the National Network of Electric Vehicle Chargers. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, passed in 2021, invests $7.5 billion in electric vehicle (EV) charging, $10 billion in other forms of clean transportation and over $7 billion in EV battery components, cri...

MOBOTIX has installed and commissioned twelve charging points with 11 kW each for e-vehicles at the company headquarters in Langmeil. With the use of solar energy from the large photovoltaic system with 600 kWp, which was commissioned on the roof of the production hall in the fall of 2022, the company is thus taking the following steps on its sustainable path, also with regard to important ESG key figures. "The 600kWp photovoltaic system on the production building helps to reduce CO2 consumptio...

Balance for an electric motor refers to ensuring that the rotating parts of the motor, such as the rotor and the shaft, are evenly distributed in weight and properly aligned. When a motor is balanced, it means that these parts spin smoothly and evenly, without causing any unnecessary vibration or wobbling. Balancing the electric motors during a repair is important for several reasons: Reducing Vibration: When an electric motor is out of balance, it can cause excessive vibration, which can d...

Texas Instruments Incorporated announced that Curtis C. Farmer, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Comerica Incorporated and Comerica Bank, has been elected to TI's board of directors, effective April 1. "We're pleased to welcome Curt to our board," said Rich Templeton, TI's Chairman, President and CEO, adding "His financial acumen and breadth of knowledge on the economy and financial services for commercial enterprises will make his perspective a valuable addit...

Siemens and Swinburne University of Technology have agreed to set up the most advanced future Energy Transition Hub of its kind in Australia in at the University’s Hawthorn campus in Melbourne. Featuring some of the most advanced digital energy technology from Siemens and the technical, R&D and teaching expertise of Swinburne, the US$ 5.2 million Hub aims to build a future energy grid laboratory accessible to students and industry. Energy Transition Hub When fully operational, the E...

The introduction of the new P1RD type enables installation of auxiliary contacts and connection of both residual current operated and miniature circuit breakers on a single power bar. They are available up to 63A, in 2 and 4 pole versions with AC or A class tripping, and for residual class tripping, and for residual currents of 30mA and 300mA. A device to padlock the lever is also available. Protection rating of IP20 Residual current operated circuit breakers with overload protection P1RE. Th...