Ségolène Royal, the French Minister for the Environment, Energy and Sea, has launched a third tender for the installation of an offshore wind farm off the coast of Dunkirk. This is an area identified as extremely favourable for this type of installation. The offshore...
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Digital transformation – how will industry and distributors be affected?
MDD Expo is hosting a conference on the 30th and 31st of March in Hall 4 at Paris-Porte de Versailles, an event that will surely interest all players in the industry of the future. The conference, presented by Jean-Louis Henriot, CEO of Lascom, and Franck Le Strat,...
Doubling renewable energy and generating huge savings
A report published last week by IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency, revealed that nearly 4.2 trillion (2.2 trillion) dollars could be saved each year by 2030 if the global energy mix contained two times more renewable energy than today. The report...
2015 World energy market in numbers
The Advanced Energy Economy (AEE), the American Association of Professionals in new energy technologies (energy efficiency, renewable energy, biofuels, smart grids, etc.) has released the figures of the global energy market in 2015. The worldwide turnover is a new...
Ffly4u and ThingWorx announce partnership
ffly4u and Thingworx have announced that they have concluded a deal to launch a partnership designed to offer manufacturers a supervisory interface and logistical data driver. ffly4u, a French startup specializing in the tracing of logistics assets, and will now...
Ademe publish waste heat recovery guide
The French Agency for Environment and Energy Management has just put online a short document promoting waste heat recovery in industry. The two-page document summarizes in brief the challenges of recovering industrial waste heat, and informs stakeholders on the...
LED’s creating light pollution
LED bulbs are often acclaimed for the energy savings they deliver, even more so now at a time which has seen the previously prohibitive prize of LED bulbs fall to more affordable prices. Not surprisingly, many cities and towns have therefore chosen to install these...
Floating solar panels making waves in London
Lightsource Renewable Energy, a British company specializing in solar energy, have announced that construction has begun on what is believed to be the largest floating photovoltaic complex in Europe. Walton-on-Thames, a town located on the Thames, about 20 miles from...
World’s largest photovoltaic plant launched
The King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, launched the first phase of a project that has been described as the largest photovoltaic plant in the world this Friday, February 5th, at a ceremony at Ouarzazate. In the first phase of the project, known as Noor 1, the plant will...
Dalkia invest in compressed air
Dalkia, a subsidiary of EDF giant, has announced the acquisition of 100% of the company Techsim Montpellier, specialist in the design, installation and maintenance of compressed air production systems. Compressed air is working fluid which has a significant energy...
