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GE Engineers Tackle Grid Congestion on Europe's Low Voltage Networks
2014-08-25 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
UK Power Networks and Scottish Southern Energy adopt new operational techniques<br /> GE Redefines Low Voltage Management Strategies; Optimize Existing Infrastructure<br /> Industry Best Practice Can Be Applied Globally<br /> <br /> PARIS — GE (NYSE: GE) today announced that it has set a new industry milestone to support global utilities in their management of grid congestion on their low voltage networks. GE made the announcement on the first day of CIGRE, a global Transmission and ...This story is related to the following:Energy, Power & Utility Software | Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
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ABB to Provide UK Grid Connection for Europes Largest Tidal Energy Project
2014-08-22 16:45:00| Transmission & Distribution World
ABB has been awarded a contract by Atlantis Resources Limited to provide the onshore grid connection for Phase I of the MeyGen tidal stream project in Scotlands Pentland Firth. read more
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The cost of caring for Europe's elderly nuclear plants
2014-08-17 10:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Europe's ageing nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing plant operators many millions of dollars. Nuclear power provides about a third of the European Union's electricity generation, but the 28-nation bloc's 131 reactors are well past their prime, with an average age of 30 years. And the energy companies, already feeling the pinch from falling energy prices and weak demand, want to extend the life of their plants...
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Europes Forests Suffer Effects of Climate Change
2014-08-16 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Climate change is here, it's happening now, and for the last few decades it has been demonstrably bad news for many of Europe's forests. A report published in the journal Nature Climate Change shows that damage from wind, bark beetles, and wildfires has increased significantly in Europe's forests in recent years. An international team of researchers say in a report from the European Forest Institute that climate change is altering the environment, and it is long-lived ecosystems like forests...
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China and Europe's outsourcing of soy production impacts the Amazon
2014-08-14 21:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Soy consumption in China and Europe is having significant ecological impacts in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, finds a study published in Environmental Research Letters. The research, led by Michael Lathuillire from the University of British Columbia, used five footprint indicators - forests, land, carbon, water, and nutrients - to evaluate the environmental implications of Mato Grosso's soy production and exports during the 2000s. They found that the soy sector was associated with 65 percent...
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