Industry News
Workers warned to guard against heat stress
WorkSafe has urged workers and employers to take precautions to avoid the risk of heat stress or heat stroke. [ + ]
Registrations open for 2019 Large-scale Solar Forum
The Clean Energy Council's 2019 Large-scale Solar Forum will discuss some of the opportunities and challenges facing the solar industry. [ + ]
Researchers trial sensors to manage summer crowds
RMIT will install hundreds of sensors at Rye that will monitor traffic, parking, crowd numbers and toilet usage over this summer and next summer. [ + ]
Vertiv to build Sunshine Coast submarine cable landing station
The $6.6m Sunshine Coast International Broadband Submarine Cable landing station will help deliver Australia's fastest data and telecommunications connection to Asia. [ + ]
Increasing the security of smart home devices
Swinburne's Cybersecurity Lab has received $360,000 in funding to research and develop technology that can prevent smart devices being hacked. [ + ]
Worker electrocuted on Melbourne roof
WorkSafe is investigating the death of a 19-year-old man who was believed to be electrocuted at a home in Melbourne on Tuesday evening. [ + ]
Signal Energy Australia powers ahead with NSW solar plant
Signal Energy Australia will be working alongside Canadian Solar to provide EPC services for the 175 MW Finley Solar Plant in New South Wales. [ + ]
Emerson app captures plant conditions
Operations teams can easily report plant safety and performance issues with Emerson's new application AMS Inspection Rounds for the AMS Trex Device Communicator. [ + ]
Batteries best for cheap energy storage
A model has predicted lithium-ion batteries will be the cheapest technology for storing electricity by 2050. [ + ]
Huge job boost for NT tradies
The Northern Territory Government's $100 million Public Housing Stimulus Program is expected to support up to 550 full-time jobs over the next 18 months. [ + ]
Emergency lights create smart building network
Buildings may soon be able to monitor themselves, report problems autonomously and even talk to smartphones with the rollout of an IoT solution known as EMIoT. [ + ]
New Wiring Rules become mandatory from 1 January 2019
The National Electrical and Contractors Association (NECA) is reminding electrical contractors that AS/NZS 3000:2018 becomes mandatory from 1 January 2019. [ + ]
Electrical workers fail to use independent earth for polarity testing
The Queensland Electrical Safety Office (ESO) is reminding electrical workers to use an independent earth whenever possible, rather than the installation earthing system. [ + ]
'Women in Electrical Trades Roadmap' launched
The National Electrical and Communications Association (NECA) has launched the 'Women in Electrical Trades Roadmap'. [ + ]
'Sun in a box' could power a small city
Researchers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable energy and deliver that energy back into an electric grid on demand. [ + ]
