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However, the standards committees are concentrating on cables with contacts at the end, with Europe the laggard. The European Commission and European standards organizations hope for a common interface in general use by 2017. Quixotically, they hope their standards will become global despite the fact that North America, China and Japan are showing more urgency, already pushing for their standards to be adopted globally. Nonetheless, there are no agreed and adopted standards anywhere for the fastest "Level 3" form of charging  -- top request for public places. If Level 3 can be made safe and affordable, charging some EVs in ten minutes is possible if they have the right type of lithium-ion battery.  Fastest charging means expensive hardware and installation at present, often with a large lithium-ion battery and ultracapacitor bank in the charger. Copying the 40MW delivery of a gasoline station is not necessarily feasible, safe or affordable yet. The forecast of the 2015 split between options is shown below. Discrete Level 1 stations will be modest in number because so many EVs will be charged slowly using a regular domestic power socket, the inverter being in the vehicle itself.Percentage split in numbers of EV charging stations sold worldwide in 2015. Level 1:    6 percentLevel 2:  80 percentLevel 3:  14 percentSource IDTechEx report "Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure 2011-2021"

In a memorandum of understanding, ministers from Ireland, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden as well as the UK, agreed to explore the regulatory, legal, planning and technical issues that need to be addressed to create the grid.

Chinalco, as the Chinese state-owned mining company is known, will take a 51 per cent stake in the exploration joint venture. The venture’s initial focus will be discovering copper and coking coal deposits in the north and northwest of China, a country that has been a mostly closed kingdom to foreign companies eager to map and exploit its mineral riche

XTA - Xstrata Latest Prices LONDON (SHARECAST) - Xstrata has completed the sale of its 70% interest in El Morro SCM, which owns the El Morro copper-gold project in north-central Chile. The miner will get $463m in cash from New Gold

"Very strong transmission cable demand in the United States and Brazil as well as a growing business in Mexico offset normal seasonal volume declines in other product areas in North America and ROW. In Europe, the Company experienced better than expected demand across the majority of its businesses and the achievement of project milestones associated with our submarine energy cable business. Our project related businesses by their nature have been and we expect will continue to be volatile in terms of their revenues and earnings recognition. While the benefit of a stronger fourth quarter in our transmission and project related businesses is welcome, our end markets and overall demand have only started to improve in many locations.

It is part of a £3m Copper Kingdom tourism project, which will also see buildings like the Cornish Beam Engine House, renovated.

Superior Essex is part of LS Cable & System, a global leader in the manufacture of power cable products and a supplier for many energy transmission projects around the globe. The new 250,000-square-foot facility, announced on April 14, is expected to be completed next year, and will be the Company’s first North American location to manufacture power cable products.