The average consumer thinks about energy only about six minutes per year, according to a statistic often quoted in energy efficiency circles.
Europe – and the UK in particular – is leading offshore wind development, but several deaths and other incidents in the last two years have put the spotlight on the industry's Health and Safety (H&S) regime.
Brussels' Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) will become law at the beginning of 2013, forcing prevaricating fossil fuel generators to take tough decisions about the future of their coal, gas and oil fired plant.
A brief scan of any recent newspaper, magazine, journal, blog or podcast will reveal that there is only one subject on the minds of the media and the public: the current economic crisis and the varying effects it is having around the world.
The scale of the challenge that Germany may have set itself was underscored at POWER-GEN Europe in Milan this July.
In practice, the significance of measuring the performance of components used in thermal power stations is frequently underestimated.
India's electrical equipment and industrial electronics sector's annual production is currently around $25 billion, which represents 1.5 per cent of the national GDP, while its exports total $4.5 billion, according to IEEMA, the Indian Electrical and Electronics Manufacturers Association.
Latin America's largest economy plans to install as much as 30 GW of additional electricity generation capacity by 2015, boosting output to 145 GW in readiness for Brazil to play host to the 2014 World Cup, and in 2016 the Olympic Games.
One of the major shifts taking place in the global power generation market is the rapidly increasing share of renewable energy resources as we seek to reduce carbon dioxide emissions over the long-term.
Last month's announcement by the UK government's Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) that it had withdrawn its funding from the carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, due to be implemented at the 2.4 GW Longannet coal fired power plant in Scotland, came as quite a shock to the CCS community and the wider power industry.
The financial impact of Germany's nuclear phase out is now being felt in the boardrooms of the country's energy companies. But it will be a case of no pain, no gain, for its future energy mix.
China, India and Russia will drive global energy growth in the next 25 years, any significant withdrawal from nuclear will have "alarming implications", and a major cut renewable energy subsidies because of economic austerity would make it "very difficult for the sector to come back to life".
Investment in transmission grids will need to almost double in the next 20 years if European Union decarbonisation targets are to be met, according to an energy thinktank.
A Smart Grid is to be set up in Tokyo as a solution to the power problems the city faced in the days following the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
The total value of merger & acquisitions deals in the US power and utilities sector fell significantly in the third quarter of this year compared with the same period in 2010.
UK utility SSE claims that the foundations supporting 52 turbines at the Greater Gabbard wind farm are defective.
Cummins Power Generation, a business unit of Cummins Inc, has launched a C3000 Series genset offering up to 3.5 MW, which it describes as the highest output for a high-speed diesel genset.
John Crane UK has introduced an advanced new method of wirelessly monitoring the condition of rotating equipment and associated machinery in difficult or hazardous environments.
Smart metering, although intended to cut households' bills while averting carbon emissions, has met widespread popular opposition and even alarmed many within the power industry over its potential threat to data security.
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