£20 million for ambitious technologies to build UK resilience following coronavirus outbreak
	Businesses could help boost the UK’s resilience to the long-term impact of the coronavirus outbreak and similar situations in the future, as a result of £20 million government funding announced on Friday 3 April.... more

TE Connectivity support global fight against COVID-19
	TE Connectivity, a world leader in connectivity and sensors, and the TE Connectivity Foundation, a private charitable foundation funded entirely by TE, have donated more than $1 million to organisations supporting the fight against COVID-19... more

The Defence Industry Is A Great Space For Electrical Engineers
	When you’re just starting out as an electrical engineer, there are a wide variety of specialist industries that you can enter into, each with its own merits and challenges... more

SP Energy Networks’ COVID-19 commitment

SP Energy Networks has enacted contingency plans to ensure 3.5 million homes and businesses maintain their electricity supply throughout the coronavirus crisis.

The electricity distributor has ... more

ANM Strata 3.0 launched to accelerate net zero carbon transition	Scottish construction bodies issue new guidance
The release of ANM Strata 3.0, Smarter Grid Solutions’ third generation DERMS, moves power companies a step closer to being able to monitor and manage tens of thousands of distributed energy ... more	The newly-established Construction Industry Coronavirus (CICV) Forum has taken immediate to provide clarity for the sector in Scotland, following advice from First Minister Nicola Sturgeon last week ... more

ChargedUp supports fight against COVID-19
	ChargedUp, Europe’s largest phone charging network, is switching its network of charging stations to hand sanitiser stations, in an initiative dubbed CleanedUp aimed at supporting the UK’s efforts to ... more

SELECT cautiously welcomes measures to assist self-employed, but urges clarity
	SELECT, the trade body for electrical professionals in Scotland, has given a cautious welcome to the Chancellor’s measures, announced on Thursday 26 March 2020, to provide financial support to the ... more

Light + Building to take place with the 2020 Battery Experts Forum
	It has been announced that the 2020 Battery Experts Forum will now take place at the same time as Light + Building, from 28 September-11 October 2020 in the Congress Center and Hall 6.0 on the ... more

Irish electric vehicles sales lag behind 2030 target levels
	Research into Irish electric vehicle (EV) uptake by Cornwall Insight Ireland shows that EV sales are up 53 per cent year-to-date. However, this still lags behind the Irish government’s Climate Action ... more

UK energy statistics, 2019 and Q4 2019
	Energy Trends and Energy Prices publications have been published today by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The publications cover new data for the fourth quarter of 2019 (... more

Sustainable Development Capital Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEEIT): Investment in US industrial energy efficiency portfolio
	SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust plc, the first UK-listed investment company of its kind to invest exclusively in the energy efficiency sector, has agreed to acquire a 50% interest in Primary ... more

Coronavirus job retention scheme could lead to ‘worker resentment’, says ECA

The detail of the government’s new coronavirus job retention scheme, announced on Friday, has been questioned by engineering services trade body, ECA.

While ECA supports the principle and ... more