GREEN ELECTRICITY FOR MORE AFFORDABLE HYDROGEN


Schneider Electric has added the new Easy UPS 3M, a 60kVA to 100kVA UPS, to its 3-phase UPS family of products. schneider-electric.co.uk


Manufacturer of electrical test equipment, Martindale Electric, has supplied Baxi Heating with testers for checking appliance wiring and earthing. martindale-electric.co.uk


Zumtobel Group has been chosen to provide the lighting for the Milton Keynes HQ of Aston Martin Red Bull Racing. zumtobelgroup.com


Pacifico Energy has started construction of a solar power generation plant in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, which will generate approximately 125m kilowatt hours of electricity every year.


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The James Dyson Award 2019 is now open for entries. Each year the company challenges students to design something that solves a problem - creating the next innovative and ingenious invention. jamesdysonfoundation.co.uk


BP is to launch a new Fuel & Charge fuel card this summer which can be used by fleet drivers to pay for petrol, diesel or electricity, offering a solution for if and when they chose to move to electric vehicles. bp.com


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ydrogen sourced from green electricity can increase the share of renewables in the transportation sector, and reduce particulate


matter and nitrogen oxide emissions. There is a catch, though, says the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden- Württemberg (ZSW): green gas production is still too expensive. ZSW and its partners recently tested an option on a research platform that could help cut costs. The consortium deployed a research electrolyser for a trial at a commercial power-to-gas plant in Germany, which performed well. With the benefit of new electrode coatings, scientists managed to increase power density, outperforming the plant’s industrial equipment by 20 per cent. What is more, the research electrolyser consists of just a few


parts and is better suited for mass manufacturing. This advance could drive down the cost of electrolysers. The researchers are now investigating the improved electrode coating’s durability. ZSW says that gradually replacing fossil fuels with renewables in


electrical power stations is a start, but the same will have to happen in transportation and buildings, with hydrogen being the perfect enabler for this transition. This gaseous energy carrier can buffer surplus green electricity for other sectors to use.


LIGHTING UP THE GARDEN CITY


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K Power Networks is delivering 77 megawatts of power to light up


the Ebbsfleet Garden City’s proposed 15,000 new homes, schools and businesses on the banks of the River Thames in north Kent. Work is currently taking place at an


existing electricity substation, which is connected to a second site by an existing overhead power line. At the first site, demolition work has taken place to make way for two new 132,000V points of connection. Meanwhile, at the second site, work is due to get underway to construct new electrical equipment, which will enable electricity to be safely delivered to local homes and businesses. UK Power Networks is delivering the


project for Ebbsfleet Development Corporation, which was set up by the government to speed up the delivery of thousands of new homes and create a 21st century ‘garden city’. Ebbsfleet Development Corporation


will invest £30m in the provision of new electricity substations and connections in order to ensure the supply for up to 15,000 homes and a new city centre. The first stage of the electricity


infrastructure work is due to be completed by summer 2020.


SCIENTISTS GENERATE ELECTRICITY FROM RARE ELEMENT U


K experts have generated electricity from a rare chemical element for the first time, which may mean future space missions can be powered for up to 400 years. The rare element, americium, is not found in nature but is a byproduct of


the decay of plutonium, which itself is produced during the operation of nuclear reactors. A team of scientists, led by the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and working with the University of Leicester, have


extracted americium from some of the UK’s plutonium stockpile and used the heat generated to create enough electric current to light up a small lightbulb within a special shielded area in NNL’s Central Laboratory in Cumbria. The breakthrough means potential use of americium in radioisotope power systems for missions which would use the heat from americium pellets to power spacecraft heading into deep space, or to challenging environments on planet surfaces where other power sources, such as solar panels, no longer function.


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