The shipping industry is not usually thought to be at the forefront of cutting-edge technology. Other transport industries are seen to be higher-tech and less conservative.

The IEC Young Professionals (YP) Programme was set up to increase the involvement of the next generation of IEC experts in standardization and conformity assessment activities.

All eyes are on Katowice in Poland ahead of COP24, due to start on December 2. Climate change, never far away from the headlines, is expected to become one of the major focuses of the news agenda in coming days.

The electricity utility industry is facing disruption. The worldwide trends causing the disruption – decarbonization, decentralization, deregulation, democratization and digitalization – are expected to continue.

Renewable energy is increasingly becoming an important source for electricity.

Electricity experts have met in  Côte d’Ivoire to study the use of low voltage direct current (LVDC) to increase access to electricity in rural areas. IEC ambassador Vimal Mahendru was among the IEC experts sharing their experience and technical insights.

Energy efficiency is one of the largest sources of available energy that every country possesses in abundance.

The transmission and distribution of electricity has to gear up to meet new challenges: a soaring world population and increasing pollution mean electricity will have to be delivered to more people and more efficiently as well.

Take a look around you. Is there anything we can do without electricity? Be it lighting, education, healthcare, productive work of almost any kind—everything requires electricity.

According to the Off-Grid Solar (OGS) Market Trends Report published by Lighting Global, the off-grid solar (OGS) sector provided electricity access to an estimated 360 million people worldwide in 2017.