If you intend on visiting this years Data Centre World, taking place over the 12th and 13th April at London’s ExCel, then make your way over to stand A30.
Specifying for Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems will continue to take on more importance over the coming year, thanks to failings of the National Grid and advancements in CHP technology.
According to new research by prominent law firm, Bircham Dyson Bell, the UK faces a “looming energy crunch”, with almost 25GW of generating capacity due to close by 2030.
Britain’s biggest energy supplier, Centrica, warned this week that the UK faces a ‘looming gap’ in its energy supplies, due to a series of failures in the Government’s scheme to keep the lights on.
Another National Grid proposal will be debated by ministers in the UK and Norway soon and that is the prospect of linking the UK’s National Grid to Norway via an under-sea cable. Enabling Britain to tap into the prosperous Scandinavian country’s vast supply of green energy, the provision of a multi-billion pound inter-connector would need realising.
Considering that beer and pubs contribute some £22bn to the UK GDP and generate £13bn in tax revenue, it’s no wonder that thousands of industry professionals are flocking to Pub16 this week to find out as much as they can about the industry’s innovations, trends, products, services and people.
We’re proud to have just dispatched for install two 1,400 kVA standby generators to a major UK clothing retailer’s large distribution centre. Following extensive testing at our Andover HQ, the large, capable units will protect the business from increasingly probable mains power supply outages.
It announced ‘emergency measures’ late last year to ensure that blackouts were avoided, but is the National Grid’s latest announcement of planned ‘Transitional Arrangements’ auctions going to improve matters for 2016 and beyond?
Andover standby generator specialists, shentongroup were visited by Jan Treacher-Evans, Senior community fundraiser for the British Red Cross recently and they presented her with a cheque for £100.
We’ve spoken a great deal about the very low National Grid power reserves this year. Although the National Grid has expressed confidence in its management of what has been referred to as ‘emergency measures’, it’s not just organisations that are taking control of their own uninterruptible power supplies.
