Electricity and Control December 2024

CONTENTS

INDUSTRY 4.0 + IIOT

Features

INDUSTRY 4.0 + IIoT

4 Moving to faster connectivity in industry Kobus Vermeulen, Schneider Electric

5 Products + services

ENERGY MANAGEMENT + THE INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT

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9 Building sustainable battery gigafactories Peter Hodgkinson, WSP in Africa

11 Regular energy assessments help optimise efficiency Brenainn Cross, AES

13 Products, services + projects

MEASUREMENT + INSTRUMENTATION

18 Products + services

TRANSFORMERS, SUBSTATIONS + CABLES

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20 Measurement and control in smart grids Q&A with Dr Fabian Assion, Beckhoff

23 NTCSA shares its Transmission Development Plan 2024 NTCSA

25 Ethiopia-Kenya electricity highway – shaping regional connectivity African Development Bank

26 Products + services

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Regulars

1 Comment Resilience has become a key resource

3 Cover article Powering the future with smart transformers

30 Engineering the future Modelling of rotor aerodynamics could improve wind turbine design 32 Write @ the back Manufacturing to meet the growing market for green energy technologies

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2 Electricity + Control DECEMBER 2024