Exclusive interview with Göran Näslund, Global Business Development Manager Metering, Vodafone. Göran will address African Utility Week’s T&D/Smart Grids track on “M2M communications and an enabled grid”.

[img:Consultants%20-%20Pic%201_0.jpg| ]17 May 2012 - Twenty six partners of the Smart Energy Collective have signed a renewed cooperation agreement for the approval of the second phase of its smart grid initiative, which involves the development of five large-scale smart grid demonstration projects in the Netherlands. The signing follows a successful preparation period, and marks the start of the actual design phase of the five trial test sites.

[img:Peter-Davidsonwebsite.thumbnail.jpg|Peter Davidson,
Chartered Chemical
Engineer, IChemE]17 May 2012 - Dispersing fine (sub-micron) light-scattering particles into the upper atmosphere could help to combat climate change, suggests a former UK government advisor and chemical engineer.
The technology concept developed in the UK and first revealed in this month’s tce magazine, advocates dispersing benign titanium dioxide particles as used in paint, inks and sunscreens into the stratosphere to deflect the sun’s rays.

[img:nuclear_0.jpg| ]17 May 2012 - Kenya’s Business Daily reports that Kenya Power has begun recruiting staff to manage its planned nuclear energy project

The company has called for applications for a project feasibility team leader, internal auditor, financial accountant, procurement officer, legal assistant, audit assistant and an ICT officer related to plans to build a nuclear energy project.

Throughout the last decade, PONOVO POWER CO., LTD (previously known as Power Advanced Co., LTD) has been focusing on providing professional solutions to over 5000 clients in the fields of intelligent testing and power quality control.
 
2001: Foundation of PONOVO POWER CO., LTD
2001: Launch of PWA, the relay test system with in-built output monitoring and recording function

The City of Johannesburg will welcome some 5000 power professionals from more than 60 countries for the annual African Utility Week, the continent’s largest utility services conference and exhibition, taking place from 21-24 May at Nasrec Expo Centre.

[img:Report%20d_0.jpg| ]16 May 2012 - The International Energy Agency (IEA) says that while progress is being made on renewable energy, most clean energy technologies are not being deployed quickly enough.

It released a report earlier this year called Tracking Clean Energy Progress, which highlighted the rapid progress made in some renewable technologies, notably the solar panels easily installed by households and businesses (solar photovoltaics (PV)) and in onshore wind technologies. In fact, onshore wind has seen 27% average annual growth over the past decade, and solar PV has grown at 42%, albeit from a small base.

[img:Durbs%20f_0.jpg| ]16 May 2012 - Professor Fritz Vahrenholt, former environment senator and CEO of RWE Innogy, told Welt Online his thesis that global warming will be significantly less substantial than previously thought. By the end of the century, he believes, there will be just an increase of one degree Celsius. He believes the influence of the sun on the Earth’s climate has been significantly underestimated until now.