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Energy traders will have the unique opportunity to get real life and real time trading experience during the EFET Academy Simulation workshop during the upcoming EMART Energy 2011 in Lyon, France on 22 November.

Europe needs more transmission lines to reach the European target for a single energy market by 2014, but the main obstacle is to get permits to build power lines, says Jukka Ruusunen, Vice-President of ENTSO-E.

The European Gas Conference in Vienna in January next year will offer the first formal opportunity for the gas industry to come together and discuss the latest developments in the Southern Corridor following the Azerbaijan-Turkey gas deals.

Smart Money, the pioneering mobile commerce platform of wireless leader Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) was awarded as Best Operator-led Mobile Money Program at the recent Mobile Money Global Awards held in Dubai.

The National Bank of Abu Dhabi has won the prestigious Mobile Money Award for offering the best IMT (international money transfer) programme in the industry.

Ausgrid MD George Maltabarow will deliver the opening keynote at the meeting of some 600 top utility professionals from around Australia and New Zealand in Sydney from Tuesday 8-10 November.

Siemens CMT (Communications, Media and Technology) is to launch its new walletXpress mobile payment platform, which offers new services and products in the area of multimedia, ticketing, energy and health, at the upcoming Mobile Money Global.

It would be great to hear an Australian utility announce a strategic plan for EVs along the lines of what is being done by DTE Energy in Michigan or PG&E in California says Kristian Handberg, of the Australian Department of Transport.

The Brazilian utilities Ampla, Light and Águas Guariroba have been awarded the Metering International’s Excellence Awards for Latin America for 2011.

European countries may need to increase their involvement within the internal sustainable development of North African countries to maintain and improve relations, which are crucial in the European energy panorama.