Focusing on human factors such as fatigue, decision-making, and trust, the paper examines the limitations of traditional, manual fall protection methods and the cognitive and physical burden they place on workers. It highlights how hands‑free, continuously guided systems, such as permanent vertical lifelines, reduce repeated attachment actions, minimise reliance on individual judgement, and allow workers to maintain situational awareness while climbing and working at height.

Through practical insights and real‑world examples from power transmission environments, the whitepaper demonstrates how engineered fall protection can standardise safe behaviour across diverse workforces, support productivity, and contribute to long term asset integrity. Designed for safety leaders, engineers, and decision‑makers, it reframes fall protection as a cultural tool, one that embeds safety into everyday work and makes the safest choice the easiest one.

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Power-generation companies respond to a changing industry with a more efficient maintenance strategy. Instead of relying on calendar-based maintenance, companies use real-time operations data to perform condition-based maintenance (CBM), lowering maintenance costs and improving asset availability and reliability.

Read this whitepaper to learn about:

• The challenges that power generation companies face and the pressures that drive demand for more proactive maintenance strategies
• How CBM specifically affects solar, wind, and thermal power plants and how it promotes more efficient and effective outcomes compared to planned-maintenance methodologies
• How power companies, like Uniper and Vattenfall Hydro, are using CBM in concert with a real-time data infrastructure that collects and manages operations data from both fixed and mobile assets

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This whitepaper spotlights five nuclear power plants while examining the current situation regarding decommissioning and evaluating the strategic options available post shutdown now and in the future.

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In this first phase, the initial focus was on the integration capabilities as miners were afraid that adding intermittent renewables such as solar and wind could affect the reliability of power supply and even lead to production losses.

In various microgrid applications, renewables combined with diesel, HFO, or gas have proven to provide reliable power supply to remote mines.
For almost all mines, the integration of renewables will have a positive impact on their energy cost position. Mining companies do not have to invest their own money; independent power providers (IPPs) invest in the renewable energy infrastructure and sell electricity to mines through power purchase agreements (PPAs).

“This second market phase is characterized by price competition”, explains Thomas Hillig, managing director of THEnergy. “With the support of a leading renewable energy player, the new report analyses how IPPs can offer extremely competitive PPAs to remote miners.”

Large IPPs take advantage of economies of scale on components for solar and wind power plants not only for remote mining projects but also for much bigger grid-connected plants. Market leaders have managed to optimize the planning and construction processes substantially. However, conducting projects in remote locations, especially in Africa, requires an extended experience.  Amongst the challenges of undertaking projects in Africa is financing, which requires an excellent relationship with local and international banks.

Cost optimization does not necessarily mean minimizing CAPEX but rather focusing on the total lifetime of the project and including O&M. It is also important to take the interplay of the different energy sources into consideration. Not every kWh of solar and wind energy generated means equivalent fossil fuel savings. When gensets run at suboptimal loads, they lose efficiency and require additional maintenance.

 “During the last 14 years, we have gained experience in renewable energy projects including solar-diesel hybrid microgrids, projects in remote locations and in developing countries”, points out Alexis Goybet, Head of Hybrid Solutions at Voltalia. “Our experience adds up to our economies of scale in procurement and translates into significant overall cost-reductions in the range of 20-30% in comparison to new market entrants.”

These overall cost reductions will make solar and wind energy extremely attractive for many mines. The number of remote mines that add renewables to diesel, HFO or gas is expected to grow quickly all over Africa.

For further information and detailed results, please have a look at the report:
https://www.th-energy.net/english/platform-renewable-energy-and-mining/reports-and-white-papers/

About Voltalia (www.voltalia.com)
• Voltalia is an international player in the renewable energy sector. The Company produces and sells electricity generated from wind, solar, hydro, biomass and storage facilities, with a total capacity of 911 MW either in operation or construction as of today.
• Voltalia is also a service provider, assisting its investor clients active in renewables at each project stages, from conception to operation and maintenance.
• With 550 employees in 18 countries over 4 continents, Voltalia is able to act worldwide on behalf of its clients.
• Voltalia has been listed on the Euronext regulated market in Paris since July 2014 (FR0011995588 – VLTSA) and is a component stock of the Enternext Tech 40 index and the CAC Mid&Small index. The Group is also included in the Gaïa-Index, an index for socially responsible midcaps.

About THEnergy
THEnergy is a boutique consultancy founded in 2013 focusing on microgrids/mini-grids and offgrid renewable energy. For industrial companies, THEnergy develops energy concepts and shows how to become more sustainable – combining experience from conventional and renewable energy with industry knowledge in consulting. THEnergy also advises investors and energy companies regarding renewable energy opportunities in rapidly changing markets. The initial focus was on commercial and industrial offgrid renewable energy projects, for example in mining (th-energy.net/mining), hospitality, telecommunications or on islands (th-energy.net/islands). Driven by investor needs, rural electrification and energy access have become additional consulting focusses. THEnergy has led several large-scale due diligence processes in rural electrification.

Power generating portfolios, meanwhile, are likewise evolving rapidly, as new strategic balances are reached among fossil, nuclear, and renewable energy sources.As the winds of change continue to reshape the critical industry, every related business on the planet is racing to keep up.

Download our ‘Building a Global Presence for Growing EPC companies’ white paper to find out how your business can keep up with the changing industry and extend its competitive reach globally.

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Responding to growing market demand, LONGi will invest US$309million, including about US$240 million in construction investment and roughly US$68 million in working capital, to double the capacity of its cell and module factory in Andhra Pradesh from 500MW to 1 GW respectively.Construction on the expandedmodule factory is scheduled to be completed and production will commence by the end of August 2019, while the cell factory is set to start production in January 2020.

“The expansion of our Andhra Pradesh factory is part of LONGi’s global growth strategy. While global demand for solar modules continues to grow, LONGi is making moderate capacity investments in select markets to hedge against the risks of trade protectionism, while remaining focused on the Chinese domestic market,”saidMr. Wenxue Li, the president of LONGi Solar. “According to preliminary estimates, the new expansion will supportUS$380 million in annual sales and roughly US$19 million in net profit every year.”

“India is already China’s biggest export market for solar products by sales value. During 2017, China’s exports accounted for 24.1 percent of India’s solarproducts, with sales growth seen in both cells and modules,” Mr. Wenxue Li said.

The project is being operated by Lerri Solar Technology (India) Private Ltd, which is 40 percent owned by LONGi and 60 percent owned by LONGi Solar.

Expanding production capacity in India will enable LONGi to take advantage of India’s rich local resources, low costs and generous policies toward the solar industry. It’s also an opportunity for LONGi to accelerate its overseas expansion and boost its share of the global market for mono-crystalline products.
About LONGi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd

LONGi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltdis the largest manufacturer of mono-crystalline products in the world. Through 18years of efforts the company has expanded its product line from monoingotsand wafers to  cells and modules, and even thesolar solution.