Power Briefing recap: week of Sept. 9

With another week of Power Briefing behind us, here’s what you might have missed:

• Cummins’ HELM strategy will allow customers to choose their internal combustion (IC) engine’s fuel type. Jim Nebergall, general manager of Cummins’ hydrogen engine business, said two of the HELM program’s engines are on track for use with hydrogen. He discussed the future of hydrogen IC engines with Power Progress.
• Camera technology is growing significantly in precision agriculture applications. Despite this and the prevalence of modern digital cameras, interoperability issues exist. The Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation (AEF) is working to address this.
• The SMM maritime trade show last week in Hamburg, Germany, featured many products focused on addressing the challenge of maritime decarbonization. Power Progress did a recap, which included new IC engines that could operate with alternative fuels as well as hybrid solutions.
• For decades, tower cranes have been built to operate on grid-supplied electric power. However, battery electric (BE) solutions have been elusive. Ampd Energy’s Enertainer rechargeable battery energy storage system (BESS) is addressing that, and it’s being used in Birmingham, England, with a Potain tower crane.

Other news addressed some personnel moves, including Karin Rådström taking over as CEO of Daimler Truck and Alan Dunne’s appointment to managing director of Aggreko UK and Ireland.

Power Briefing recap: week of Sept. 2 Advice on battery passports, a fuel cell electric refuse vehicle test and the shifting dump truck market.

Power Briefing recap: week of Aug. 26 A convo with Accelera by Cummins, hybrid heavy vehicle retrofits and an FTC noncompete ban milestone.