Industry is being invited to comment on a recommendation for legislation that requires that electrical substations in buildings be located at or above the defined flood level in Queensland. [ + ]

The City of Sydney has awarded Solgen Energy a $6 million contract to fit solar photovoltaic (PV) panels to more than 30 sites over the next two years. [ + ]

VSS Monitoring has announced that it has earned the 2012 Global Competitive Strategy Leadership Award in the infrastructure packet broker market from Frost & Sullivan. VSS Monitoring was recognised with this independent, third-party award due to its leading technical innovation, differentiated product offerings, extensive customer base and ROI/cost savings. [ + ]

Migrant worker issues will be the focus of the AMMA Migration and Labour Sourcing Conference, to be held tomorrow in Brisbane. [ + ]

Budding electrical stars take note: nominations for the 2012 Electrotechnology School Student Awards are now open. [ + ]

The CEC has launched the Clean Energy Career Hub, an online hub for people seeking work in the clean energy industry and those already in the industry wanting to upgrade their skills and qualifications. [ + ]

The Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) passed nine governance changes at an extraordinary general meeting held on 23 July in Sydney. [ + ]

The global optical networking (ON) equipment market is expected to reach US$20 billion by 2017, according to new research from Ovum. [ + ]

REFUsol, a manufacturer of solar inverters, is showcasing its 5, 10 and 20 kW inverters and innovative accessories for monitoring PV systems at Clean Energy Council Week in Sydney from 26-28 July 2012. [ + ]

Austest Laboratories has been awarded the contract for check testing swimming pool pumps by the Australian Government’s Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. [ + ]

ABB Australia has announced that the University of Queensland entry was the winner of its Smart Grid City Model competition for university engineering students, launched earlier this year. [ + ]

Schneider Electric has identified the renewable energy market as a key growth opportunity and will increase its business focus in the Australian commercial, residential and solar farm markets. [ + ]

Nutanix, said to be the first company to offer a radically simple compute and storage building block for virtualising data centres without the need for shared storage, has announced it has achieved record growth across US federal agencies for its Complete Cluster SAN-free data centre. [ + ]

The energy and telecom cables and systems company Prysmian Group has supplied approximately 350 km of high-tech, fire-resistant cables for power distribution within the recently inaugurated Shard skyscraper, the tallest building in London and Western Europe. [ + ]

In-fighting between the Victorian and National branches of the ETU continues, with the CEPU calling Dean Mighell’s statements about foreign workers “just plain wrong”. [ + ]