Porirua College plugs into the power of PowerLogic

Knowing where and how we use energy is a critical first step to better managing our energy resource and, as Wellington’s Porirua College demonstrates, energy monitoring and reporting in the education sector has a surprising number of benefits. Porirua College near Wellington is the first secondary school in New Zealand to introduce students to the benefits of energy monitoring and reporting as a fundamental cornerstone of energy efficiency.

Pricing testing in recessionary times

There are two schools of thought when it comes to testing-and- measuring equipment costs By Kevin Kevany

Monitoring developments solve longstanding problems

Real-time processing, “particle characterisation” and a detachable wireless display advance monitoring processes

Kea and weather-proof solar roof for Milford hut

When a Government minister helicopters in to a remote South Island tramping hut to see what’s been going on there, you know it’s likely to be something big. In literal terms, what Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson went to check out at Dumpling Hut on the Milford Track recently was quite small.

Kiwi innovation taking on the world

Frank Calis of Motion Design in West Auckland wanted fast response times for the machines he was designing for the agricultural industry.

Taking electricity management way beyond what has previously been possible.

The recent 2010 Power & Electricity World NZ conference held in Auckland in mid-February, part of a rapidly expanding series which is intent on “synthesising the industry in the SE Asia and Australasian region”.