A German student could face charges for stealing less than a penny's worth of electricity from a train station. Jan Michael Ihl, a 23-year-old student, plugged his laptop computer into a socket beside an unused information stand to find out the address

Fisher Electrical says Moeller's Mini Panel Board halves expense and installation time. The Shrewsbury-based firm recently installed one at Alcotrol Laboratories in Langley, Berkshire, where it feeds power for equipment in a 3,000 sq ft lab. It is configured for a 250A,

Brand new lighting design software that complies with the latest industry guidelines is to be demonstrated for the first time at Interbuild. Fitzillume 2004 – the upgraded version of the package produced by the Fitzgerald Lighting Group – will be available free

CGE power has made an offer to the Board of Drax Holdings for the UK's biggest power station, located in Yorkshire. The proposal suggests Drax Holdings exchange all its assets, except for the benefits associated with Drax's claims in the TXU administrations,

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) last week published extensive research on ladder stability devices in a bid to educate designers, manufacturers, employers and workers in how to prevent falls from height. Undertaken for HSE by Loughborough University, the research was heralded

Ofgem has fined ScottishPower and npower penalties of £200,000 each after some 9,000 direct debit customers were unfairly stopped from switching to a different gas or electricity supplier last year. The regulator's chairman, Sir John Mogg, said: “Our decision will demonstrate to