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Nigg follows Ardesier development
The purpose of the Nigg Development Masterplan for the former oil fabrication yard, oil terminal and surrounding land at Nigg, is to outline a ‘vision’ and feasible options for development of the site as a multi-user industrial facility.
Teamworking: Amantys,Hitachi, Varonis & Fuji,
Hitachi offers IGBT Module and gate drive subsystem with Amantys Power Insight performance monitoring. In data markets, Hitachi teams its NAS platform with Varonis to deliver data storage visibility and intelligence. Amantys and Fuji Electric also launch two new IGBT (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors0 Gate Drivers for High Power 2-pack modules, operating at 1200V and 1700V respectively, current ratings from 450A to 1400A.
Power networks launch
The University of Strathclyde’s PNDC (Power Networks Demonstration Centre) first of its kind in Europe is officially opened, established in response to demand for secure, reliable and environmentally-friendly electricity across the globe.
Renewables: hybridise & morph
World renewable energy and its necessary complimentary power storage focus is showing signs of hybridising and morphing towards new approaches for raising efficiencies, with a mix of better and different design, better modelling, simulation and weather prediction; changing attitudes ranging from the benefit of renewable variety, usually by historical accidental development or as in the case of Finland, an announced national focus on renewable emerging to centre on bio-hydrogen as its dominant power source.
License to touch
Peratech, touch technology innovators develop an ultra-sensitive sensor using its award winning QTC (Quantum Tunnelling Composite) material that changes its resistance when pressure is applied, enabling it to be used to make pressure sensors respond to light touches, even through steel or glass.
Smart grid software success
Alistair Buchanan, CBE, and energy regulator Ofgem CEO, officially opens a new head office for pioneering grid software developers, Smarter Grid Solutions in Glasgow today.
Do as you would be done by
Princess Anne, patron of the Northern Lighthouse Board has made clear her incredulity at the proposal to site hundreds of wind turbines in the close vicinity of the Grade A listed Skerryvore Lighthouse, south of the Isle of Tiree.
Heading for Pliocene
Carbon dioxide above 400 parts per million was first seen in the Arctic last year, and also spiked above that level in hourly readings at Mauna Loa observatory. The average reading for an entire day however surpassed that level at Mauna Loa for the first time in the 24 hours that ended at 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday.
Longevity Glasa hydro-power
SSE (Scottish & Southern Energy) is to proceed with construction of its 7.5MW Glasa hydro-electric scheme, near Ardross, Ross-shire. The £30m project, earlier named Kildermorie, will be the largest hydro-scheme built in the UK in over five years and the second largest conventional hydro-scheme built in over 50 years.
Chaotic efficiencies
An international team of physicists, including researchers from the Universities of St. Andrews and York, has demonstrated chaos beats order - at least where light storage is involved.
Auld alliance Scottish jobs
A French management services company is creating 400 new jobs across Scotland's central belt. Webhelp TSC which acquire Falkirk customer manager business HEROtsc and now employs almost 3,000 people in Scotland – is setting up 294 new positions in its Glasgow base, 76 in Larbert and 30 in Kilmarnock.
Fife gets Methil wind funds
Scotland, having offered Korea a tidal sweetener in its renewables partnerships, now approves the construction of a 7MW wind turbine by Samsung Heavy Industries Co, allowing the South Korean manufacturer to test different offshore models at a the Fife Energy Park in Methil, north of Edinburgh.
Tidal energy MOU
A Memorandum of Understanding, between SDI (Scottish Development International) and Incheon Metropolitan City was signed in South Korea today. The MoU is intended to foster knowledge sharing, ideas and technology for the development of marine energy industries while also creating a new market for Scottish tidal energy companies to export products and services.
Ardesier looks to the winds
The Port of Ardersier has submitted plans to the Highland Council, Marine Scotland and Transport Scotland for consents needed to make the site a major European manufacturing port for the offshore wind industry. A renewables jobs boom could result in the Highlands if plans to turn the Port of Ardersier into a manufacturing ‘super-hub’ for offshore wind turbines get the go-ahead.
Intersolar Munich
Intersolar Europe is supported by the leading solar industry associations: the German Solar Industry Association (BSW-Solar), the German Solar Energy Society (DGS), the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation (ESTIF), the International Solar Energy Society (ISES), the SEMI PV Group, and VDMA-PV, the platform for photovoltaic production equipment within the German Engineering Association.with the support of the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA).
Photo competition & geese habitats
Any windfarm planner would be well advised to access three Scottish Natural Heritage publications that make clear how to avoid bird rich feeding areas. But if they keep their cameras handy, they may even win the SNH photographic competition.
Hot fashion: bioMEMS
Anyone who is submitting work for the 2013 IEDM should wake up to its deadline as June 24 and get cracking on their paper. The 2013 Call for Papers in all areas of Electron Device Technology; with the special focus sessions this year being for BioMEMS, Analog Devices & Circuits, Advanced Semiconductor Manufacture and Terahertz Devices
Augmented Reality roadshow
In this AmbiTion Scotland Roadshow, you'll be introduced to some of the issues and opportunities raised by augmented reality (AR) technologies. Participants will be able to explore the emerging potential of using AR technologies to enable published and displayed output to have increased levels of interactivity and depth of engagement.
All Energy 2013
As an annual event, All-Energy is the only face to face UK forum bringing together all element os the renewable, sustainable energy industry and provides a platform for business professionals, academia, finance, community and government to drive innovation, business and investments and networking.
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