Latest electrical product news
On Thursday 19 January, Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker announced that the Government has laid before Parliament draft licence modifications which provide for a reduced FiTs rate of 21p/kW from 1 April 2012 for eligible new solar PV installations on or after 3 March 2012.
Announcing the latest development, while Government awaits the judgment of the Court of Appeal about the challenge to its proposal to reduce the FiTs from 12 December, Greg Barker MP said “this is too importan... [more]
Power supply manufacturer PULS UK believes that many supposedly fail-safe systems are not as secure as operators think, and urges companies to look closely at the redundancy back-up systems providing emergency power to mission-critical production equipment.
Common problems affecting redundancy systems include batteries in DC UPS and AC UPS units not functioning correctly - either because their useful life has expired or they are working outside their temperature range; AC UPS or generators t... [more]
TE Connectivity has developed an enhanced generation of electrical circuit breakers for trains which eliminate the disadvantages associated with conventional mechanical, pneumatic circuit breakers.
The innovative “VESA vacuum circuit breaker” (VCB) for electric trains is the world’s first all electro-magnetically operated system for 25 kV and 15 kV vehicles.
After five years of development and design evolution based on field data, the VESA VCB impressively demonstrates what is possible: more... [more]
The Electricians Tax Safe Plan (ETSP) will begin in February 2012 and give an opportunity for electricians and electrical fitters to come forward and declare unpaid tax.
Stephen Barratt, private client director at James Cowper comments: “A similar initiative for plumbers has so far generated an additional £1.98million, so it is no surprise HRMC is utilising similar tactics with electricians.”
It’s likely that the Revenue holds information relating to electricians as they did for plumbers... [more]
EnOcean launched the third generation of its mechanical energy converters, the ECO 200 energy converter.
Combined with the PTM 330 transmitter module the result is an entire system for batteryless wireless operations. This new pairing creates an optimum basis for speedy and simple implementation of energy harvesting switching solutions. EnOcean again shows the way for new possibilities of various self-powered wireless switching elements – in building automation, in industry and in household app... [more]
In many processes heat occurs which is then released into the environment unused. It can actually be saved and made useful as energy. However: the processes are often too expensive for wide-ranging uses in industry or in private households and for that reason are not often viewed to be genuine alternatives to the use of fossil fuels. So that this situation changes, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Franziska Scheffler of the Institute for Chemistry at Magdeburg University is working on a project. Saxony-Anhal... [more]
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