Tofts Sand, a Queensland farm in the Childers area, grows a number of different crops including sugarcane and peanuts and utilises a mains-powered pump to irrigate them. With increasing operating costs and competition, it sought help to see what options were available. [ + ]

Brunswick Town Hall is an iconic Melbourne landmark, built in 1876, which survived the wrecker's ball in 1974 after a local protest campaign. Although it earns its keep today as a popular social venue, it was one the top 10 energy users in the municipality. [ + ]

The taller a building, the more susceptible it is to damage from lightning strikes, which can cause devastating damage to both the structure itself and to plant equipment. [ + ]

Eletrobras, a major Brazilian electric utilities company, is completing major projects throughout Brazil using NOJA Power's Automatic Circuit Reclosers (ACRs). [ + ]

A low-carbon trigeneration plant is now providing power, heating and cooling for Sydney Town Hall and the neighbouring Town Hall House, home to 1,500 City of Sydney employees. [ + ]

ABB is providing a complete automation solution for the world's first portable solar-diesel/gas microgrid provider, SunSHIFT, a modular hybrid power system designed for quick installation that can also be easily dismantled and moved according to the changing needs of energy users in remote locations. [ + ]

The Polish city of Krakow has a new US$250 million waste-to-power plant thanks to Korean engineering company POSCO E&C. [ + ]

NZ-based multi-utility contractor Northpower has clocked up first — an engineering and technology collaboration with Schneider Electric to design and construct the first prefabricated portable data centre of its kind in the Asia–Pacific region. [ + ]

While MainPower brought power to the people, its data analysis needed an extra spark. Identifying that its previous data analysis system was time-consuming, slow and cumbersome, the company turned to Tableau for a centralised solution to increase business efficiency and clarity of information. [ + ]

Schneider Electric is working with the FKG Group to provide expertise for the development of the company's new Tier 3, 10 MW regional data centre, to be built in Toowoomba, Queensland. [ + ]

Bis Industries is a leading provider of underground equipment services, supplying critical mining equipment to the resources industry. As part of the company's equipment hire service, each piece of equipment must go through a pre- and post-hire inspection. [ + ]

A new CSIRO technology that takes the energy-sapping 'drag' out of industrial pumping has been adopted by Glencore's Minara Resources following a successful full-scale trial. [ + ]

Canberra Data Centres (CDC) was formed in 2007 with the purpose of being a trusted partner for data centre services. CDC currently operates three data centres, each of which is custom-designed and built to provide the utmost functionality, security and reliability, with a focus on environmental concerns. [ + ]

When it comes to successfully designing, engineering and delivering end-to-end solutions in any industry, it inevitably requires the combined knowledge and expertise of various companies to achieve a desired result. When the brief is to think outside the box to not only improve productivity and performance, but to increase flexibility and make significant savings on time and money, this is even truer. [ + ]

After many years of managing mutliple disparate systems, it became evident to promotional products manufacturer House of Uniforms that a change of business software and systems was essential for the company's continued growth. [ + ]