Industry barriers to decentralised energy strategies must be addressed, admid rising costs and fears over energy security, concludes a new report by Aggreko. ‘Bridging the Energy Gap’ highlights the findings of a survey of 200 key energy decision makers from industry and show that energy security remains a major or significant concern for most respondents (82%). Reducing energy consumption is also viewed as a medium or high priority for the vast majority (94%). Some 55% Read more…
Cyber attacks to power networks could cost £111m daily
Cyber attacks on London electricity networks are likely to disrupt over 1.5 million people and could cost £111 million daily, even for a relatively small attack, according to new research from Dr Edward Oughton, from the UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium (University of Oxford and the Centre for Risk Studies at the Cambridge Judge Business School). “Critical national infrastructure such as smart electricity networks are susceptible to malicious cyberattacks which could cause substantial power outages Read more…
68% of businesses are wasting energy
Schneider Electric UK has launched its ‘Rethink Energy’ initiative, a programme aimed at changing business, consumer and government attitudes to energy waste and help combat climate change. A Schneider Electric commissioned study, of 2,000 UK adults and over 600 UK businesses, revealed that 68% of business leaders reported their organisations wasted energy, particularly in the form of inefficient building and office space. Under half (43%) of company chiefs also shared their organisation had not implemented Read more…
Li-ion chosen for Japan’s first fully battery-powered vessel
GS Yuasa has announced that its industrial lithium-ion batteries have been installed as the only power source in Japan’s first fully battery-powered, zero-emission passenger ship. Built by Oshima Shipbuilding Co. Ltd, the state-of-the-art 340 tonne vessel, known as “e-Oshima”, uses GS Yuasa lithium-ion storage batteries as its only propelling power source, as well as for all additional power required during operations. The ocean-going passenger ferry, which had its naming ceremony on 12 June, is the Read more…
Crestchic Loadbanks provides Pakistani port with a solution to regenerative power
The container shipping industry is an ever-growing, fast-paced environment, and power infrastructure cannot always grow in-line with power requirements. For this reason, many container ports are choosing to expand their power capacity by using stand-alone temporary power solutions, such as diesel generators, rather than waiting for additional power infrastructure. This is often the best way to secure additional crane power, thereby increasing the number of containers that can be moved simultaneously. It does, however, come Read more…
Panduit awarded approved supplier status by Kao Data
Panduit EMEA, the physical infrastructure and connectivity company, has achieved approved supplier status to the Kao Data Campus, for its Universal Containment, hot aisle containment enclosure and rack systems. This energy efficient and leak-free solution is in situ at Kao Data London One, data centre on the 15-acre campus located in the London-Stansted-Cambridge corridor. Ralph Lolies, Managing Director, Panduit EMEA, commented: “We welcome the opportunity to provide Kao Data’s customers Panduit’s world-leading hot-aisle containment solutions Read more…
Potential for micro-grids to increase resilience in an uncertain energy landscape
The rise of virtual power plants will be a key trend in 2019, according to ABB’s Sagnik Murthy. He says there is wider uptake of distributed energy resources, but there are challenges around the intermittency of solar and wind generation, which means battery storage has a key role to play. Murthy points out that the energy landscape has faced challenges around regulation and uncertainty, in recent years, and this has prompted developers to change their Read more…
High-efficiency cooling solution to support increasing power densities
Schneider Electric has expanded of its EcoStruxure Ready cooling portfolio, with the introduction of a 30kW InRow DX solution. Available in a 300mm rack format, this data centre cooling solution offers high levels of efficiency and addresses the increasing demand for higher density cooling in the data centre. The trend toward modernisation and consolidation of data centres is driving the need for a cooling solution that provides more cooling capacity in a smaller footprint and Read more…
Real-time visibility needed to tackle edge infrastructure challenges
In their digital transformation, many companies are using cloud-based IT resources, from compute power to storage and applications, in order to improve the customer experience, streamline operations, and create new business opportunities. To meet user expectations they need to complement these cloud-based resources — which is where edge computing comes in. Edge data centres help achieve higher bandwidth, lower latency, regulatory compliance around location and data privacy. Edge data centres are often dispersed “lights out” Read more…
Socomec launches fast and flexible UPS power solution
Critical equipment within every electrical infrastructure requires high quality energy which – in turn – is dependent upon a faultless and continuous power supply. Furthermore, the management of existing resources within tightly packed IT spaces can bring complexity to each unique operating environment. The latest release from specialist manufacturer, Socomec, has been developed to deliver the highest quality power that’s easier than ever to deploy. Socomec’s new three phase, medium power UPS Masterys range has been Read more…
Public opinion on demand-side response: share your views!
Mission Critical Power‘s sister title, The Energyst, is conducting its annual demand-side response and storage survey, to obtain views from those that have opted to provide flexibility from load or assets, and those that have not. The five-minute survey also seeks views around battery storage. The aim is to provide a snapshot of challenges and opportunities from an end-user perspective. As energy-related failures can cost businesses as much as 17% of their annual revenue, the case Read more…
Rackspace LON5 facility receives OCP Ready recognition
The Open Compute Project has announced that the Rackspace LON5, a state-of-the-art data centre facility located in Crawley, West Sussex, has achieved OCP Ready status. “Data Centres that have achieved the OCP Ready recognition have implemented the best practices for operations and energy efficiency, applicable for all IT equipment. When facilities and IT equipment are designed in harmony, breakthrough efficiency is achieved, which is the case for the Rackspace LON5 facility,” stated Bill Carter, Chief Technology Read more…
Rittal forms global strategic partnership with Atos and Siemens for Edge and IoT initiatives
Rittal has formed a new global strategic partnership with Atos and Siemens to develop intelligent edge data centre solutions for smart industries, smart cities, smart retail, energy and utility companies, and public sector organisations. The new ‘Intelligent Edge Data Centre’ (IEDC) is a highly configurable, data centre solution that enables companies to process IoT data in real-time – using solutions such as MindSphere, the cloud-based, open IoT operating system from Siemens, plus the new BullSequana Edge Read more…
Prysmian launches eco-friendly cabling technology
Prysmian Group claims to have made a significant step in advancing cable technology to enable more efficient, reliable and eco-friendly power transmission over long distances. After completing one-year qualification testing in accordance with international standards, the Group introduces two new 525 kV extruded land cable systems, one qualified with P-Laser and one with XLPE insulation. These cable systems are designed at a higher voltage level and with large conductor cross-sections to provide optimal technical solutions Read more…
Equinix and GIC form Joint venture to operate hyperscale data centres in Europe
Equinix has signed a $1 billion joint venture in the form of a limited liability partnership with GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, to develop and operate xScale data centres in Europe. The initial facilities in the joint venture will serve the core workload deployment needs of a targeted group of hyperscale companies, including the world’s largest cloud service providers. The facilities, on or proximate to some of Equinix’s existing IBX campuses, will allow these key enablers of digital transformation to Read more…
Vertiv survey highlights future growth of the ‘edge’
Five years ago, Vertiv led a global, industry-wide examination of the data centre of the future. Data Centre 2025: Exploring the Possibilities, stretched the imaginations of more than 800 industry professionals and introduced a collaborative vision for the next-generation data centre. Today, Vertiv released a mid-point update – Data Centre 2025: Closer to the Edge – and it reveals fundamental shifts in the industry that barely registered in the forecasts from five short years ago. Read more…
Interxion signs agreement with Aqua Comms on US subsea cable connection
Interxion, a provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre services, has announced that it has signed an agreement with Aqua Comms, the operator of subsea fibre-optic networks interconnecting the United States and Europe, enabling interconnection to the America Europe Connect-2 (AEC-2) subsea cable system from Interxion’s data centre in Copenhagen. AEC-2 is Aqua Comms’s portion of the Havfrue subsea cable project, connecting New Jersey, US, to Ireland, and Denmark. The America Europe Connect-2 cable Read more…
Nidec to install microgrid for tropical island
Nidec ASI has won the tender for the creation of a microgrid on a tropical island in the Bahamas. The aim of the project, worth €1.5 million, is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by the year 2020 and, at the same time, decrease by 70% the use of power generation from conventional sources (diesel) for the production of the energy necessary for the island’s consumption. More specifically, Nidec will supply the electricity grid’s entire Read more…
Digital Realty opens new data centre in Osaka, Japan
Digital Realty, a global provider of data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions, has announced the official opening of KIX11, the second facility on its Osaka connected campus in Japan. Development of the second Osaka data centre was anchored by a multi-megawatt, multi-year agreement with a leading global cloud service provider for state-of-the-art capacity reached in November 2018, shortly following the opening of the first Osaka data centre in May 2017. The facilities will be Read more…
Keppel Data Centres invests in Etix Group
Keppel Data Centres has invested approximately €14 million in the Series C funding of Etix Group S.A. (Etix), giving it a minority stake in Etix. Etix is a Luxembourg-based data centre developer and provider of data centre colocation services. It leverages prefabricated data centre modules for quick data centre deployment and has built up a network of edge and high-performance computing data centres across Europe, Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia. To date, the company Read more…
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