Thursday, 01 April 2021 The cross-party Environmental Audit Committee has concluded its three month examination of tidal power technologies in the UK by urging government to engage with industry and establish appropriate revenue support for the emerging sector.
In a letter to Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, the committee concluded that the UK has demonstrated world-leading technological development and that if the sector is supported to commercialise it could make a significant contribution the UK’s future energy mix, increase investment in coastal regions supporting the ‘levelling-up’ of the UK economy while also boosting the export potential of UK manufactured tidal turbines and associated supply chain.
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Vestas has secured a 56 MW order from Energix for the Banie lV project, including supply, installation and commissioning of 16 V126-3.45 MW wind turbines combined with a 20-year Active Output Management 5000 (AOM 5000) service agreement.
Energix is the majority owner of the wind farm and is a well-established wind project developer in Poland. The project, located in Banie in Western Pomerania, Poland, adds to the approximately 2.5 GW of onshore wind turbines currently installed by Vestas in Poland. Vestas has also secured a further 1.2 GW of orders to be installed.
“Vestas has been present in Poland since 2002” said Nils de Baar, President of Vestas Northern and Central Europe. “We are here to stay to support our customers and contribute to the clean energy transition in one of Europe`s largest onshore wind markets. I am particularly pleased to take this next step with our valued partner Energix”.
Courtesy of Bristol City Council.
The award will be used to improve existing connections on the Redcliffe and Old Market sections of the heat network, allowing Bristol City Council to disconnect the hot water system at its Temple Street offices from the existing gas boiler and replace it with a more efficient system.
The money will also fund the replacement of existing gas boilers with low or zero carbon heat sources, allowing rapid growth in the numbers of buildings connected to Bristol’s Heat Network and helping the authority to cut emissions as it heads towards carbon neutrality.
The network, sometimes referred to as district heating, replaces individual buildings’ own heating systems, and often uses heat recovered from industry or renewable sources. Bristol’s heat network currently supplies more than 1,000 properties with low carbon heat from different sources across the city and continues to expand to new areas.
Courtesy of Nissan.
Delivery of parts by an AGV means a worker doesn t waste time searching for a component and can stay focused on installing it. Saving time in this manner therefore also boosts a plant s efficiency.
Car plants are busy places and AGVs have become indispensable. At Nissan s Oppama plant, south of Tokyo, there are more than 700 AGVs. Inside Nissan s car factories around the globe there are more than 4,000 AGVs hard at work, moving around in perfect harmony and making car production more efficient.
Nissan was exploring new ways to reuse its Nissan LEAF batteries, the mass-market electric vehicle that has spearheaded the company s journey towards zero emissions since 2010. The first-generation LEAF was fitted with a 24-kilowatt-hour battery pack. These lithium-ion packs were made by combining 48 modules. About eight years ago, Nissan s engineers found a way to take three of these modules, repackage them and fit them inside an AGV. Last year, they took this idea to
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