Gulf Keystone Petroleum Take Over

Very interesting times in Iraq at the moment, GKP court case coming to an end and looking positive for a good outcome and for our share price to relfecct on the assets we have.

Then next few weeks we should really see some action with the aim listed Company, and the bulls take charge. the upward momentum looks strong and price rise looks imminent.

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The pipeline from Kurdistan to Turkey should nealy be complete also.

DYOR 1200p + GKP

Exciting Times

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2013 certainly looks to be an exciting year for Glasgow, next year Glasgow itself hosts the commonwealth games, which in itself is goig to be massive for the city of Glasgow. Mean-while in the westend of Glasgow a small company called WES Electrical works away at keeping Glasgow electrically safe. Since the turn of the year WES Electrical has seen a massive influx of new customers ranging from commercial customers in the retail sector to new private home owners and landlords. This has been the best start to a year (January) in our 8 year history so something has defiantly changed sentiment towards getting work done and new contracts being issued.

Glasgow 2014 will be interested, the start of next year im sure we will see a rush of companies prepare for the games in many different ways. This is certainly good for the scottish econemy and i personally know of a few companies who have started apprenticeships on the back of contacts won. My hat goes off to these companies and it is difficult to keep busy enough to keep on employing new yound staff in order to train them up to enter a trade.

hopefully the need for electricians in the westend glasgow keep in the upward trend throughout this year.

Electricians

www.weselectrical.co.uk

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Westend Glasgow maryhill road

tuesday is a big day for wes electrical, starting our first rewire of 2013. working from our new office based in the westend glasgow. the job is on maryhill road so its not far from our offfice

we also have a new electricians starting today. exciting times.

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Solar panels

Tasked with a mandate to source 50% of the energy required for its shore-based operations from renewable sources by 2020, the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) turned the construction of Bachelor Enlisted Quarters (BEQs) into another opportunity to advance on this goal. With excellent solar resources at Twentynine Palms, California, the USMC selected solar power for their Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center and enlisted Baker Electric Solar to install a 1.5 MW solar system. However, there was one stipulation: solar panels couldn’t be installed on any BEQ rooftop.

 

Up to the challenge, Baker Electric Solar turned an amphitheater, parking lot, and parking garage into dual-purpose solar systems. Due to space constraints, SunPower high-efficiency solar panels were chosen because they were the only commercially available panels that could meet the military’s energy requirements. Completing an estimated six-month project in only two months, Baker Electric Solar’s ingenuity, attention to aesthetics, and overall installation quality earned the project SunPower’s prestigious Intelegant Award for Excellence as well as an award from the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) and the Solar Energy Industries Association® (SEIA). With this award-winning solar solution, the USMC is one step closer to their energy goals and can look forward to saving $3.2 million over the next 25 years.

This is a quick look at companies in the Usa USing solar power but it will be more and more present in Glasgow over the coming years

 

PROJECT CHALLENGES DRIVE INNOVATION

Located in the Mojave Desert, the USMC base at Twentynine Palms was ideally located to turn sunlight into electricity. Consequently, solar power was included as part of the design of the BEQ-9 construction project, which featured three 4-story BEQs, a landmark projection tower, an outdoor amphitheater, and a parking garage. However, the opportunity brought with it the challenges of extreme heat and wind storms. In addition, the USMC’s request for proposal (RFP) included restrictions on where the solar panels could be placed. To address the extreme conditions and space restrictions, Baker Electric Solar created two work shifts using two different crews each day to maintain productivity in high heat, developed an attachment clip to better secure the panels against extreme winds, and turned the amphitheater and other buildings into dual-purpose structures by integrating solar panels into the existing design.

 

SUNPOWER OVERCOMES SPACE CONSTRAINTS

Advanced 3D modeling helped develop a design that successfully integrated the solar system with the available structures, but a regular-efficiency solar panel still couldn’t meet the RFP’s electricity production requirements. “The only way we were able to achieve the capacity that the military required was to use the highest-efficiency panel on the market. The SunPower modules were really the only way of getting it done,” said Baker Electric Solar’s Solar Project Development Engineer Quinn Laudenslager. By incorporating SunPower solar panels, Baker Electric Solar was able to design and install a system that not only met the base’s energy specifications, but will also save the base more than $3 million in electrical costs.

 

MARINE CORPS PROJECT WINS AWARDS

In two short months, Baker Electric Solar met all the RFP requirements and completed the BEQ-9 solar project. BES also integrated a monitoring system into the base’s existing building management system, enabling quick and easy review of the solar system’s performance. The innovation, aesthetics, and high quality of this USMC solar project have garnered several awards, including the 2011 SunPower Intelegant Award for Excellence and a 2012 Photovoltaic Project of Distinction Award conferred by SEPA and SEIA. The BEQ-9 project is also registered for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum, which highlights the overall environmental commitment of the USMC. While these accolades are great, the bottom line is that the Marine Corps base can look forward to substantial energy cost savings for the next 25 years and are another step closer to achieving critical renewable energy objectives.

 

Electric Cars 2013

Although electric cars are not really to do with being an electricians in the westend glasgow but i thought i would put some findings down for you to enjoy. With several new electric models due to be launched during 2013, and the Plug-in Car Grant still available, the next few years promise to be exciting ones for electric cars. Buying an electric car is now a real option as a number of major manufacturers launch high quality, fully electric models onto the UK market.

Who should buy an electric car?

There are three key issues that determine whether a battery electric car is right for you.

• Do you have access to off-street parking?
• Is your daily mileage under 100 miles?
• Are you looking to buy a new car?

First, you need to have access to a garage, drive or other off-street parking area to be able to recharge an electric car overnight, the most common form of recharging method. Recent research suggests that around 80% of UK car-owning households already have access to a garage or other off-street parking facility (<50% urban, 70% sub-urban, and >95% rural).

Unless proper provision is made with the permissions of your the local authority, it is not advisable to trail an electric cable across pavements or other public areas to connect a car parked on-street with your household electricity supply.

Second, your driving mileage needs to be limited to less than around 100 miles per day, preferably on a regular route that you know well. For example, regular commuting trips are well suited to electric cars – around two-thirds of commuting trips are less than 10 miles and, most significantly, they are routine journeys for which the driver knows what to expect with respect to distance, route, congestion, road conditions and parking.

Third, you need to be able to afford a new car – very few electric cars (as opposed to electric quadricycles) are yet available on the used car market. And, as is discussed later in the guide, electric cars are significantly more expensive than their conventional equivalents, a situation likely to remain the case for some time.

Recent trials have also made a useful observation regarding the way electric cars are used within multi-car owning households. While manufacturers initially thought that electric vehicles would be bought to replace a second or third car, research shows that once an electric car is purchased by a household, it tends to be preferred for all short local trips, with the other 'main' car only being used for longer journeys.

FAQ: I need a car for work and family and drive approx 10-12k miles p.a. Does it make more economic sense for me to buy a diesel, hybrid or electric car at the moment?

As a general rule, the cost differential scales with the level of electrification; from around a 10% premium for a hybrid (relatively small battery), 30%+ for a plug-in hybrid (assuming a 20 mile electric range), to 70% more for a pure battery electric car. On the plus side, fuel costs for EVs are significantly less (by around 80%), due to electricity not being taxed as a transport fuel. However, depreciation rates are high due to uncertainty of the battery life – overall expectwhole life costs to be higher for battery electrics.

For an BEV to be right for you, you need to have: (1) access to off-street parking for place to charge, (2) be looking to buy a car new, (3) be prepared to pay more for your car use, (4) be prepared to have a car with a 70-100 mile range between charges, and (5) be an early adopter who wants to have the latest gizmos – its going to get the neighbours talking for sure.

What models are available now?

Although electric vehicles have been available for decades, only recently have the major manufacturers invested in high quality electric models to meet the needs of twenty-first century. This has involved increasing driving range and reducing vehicle price. A new recharging infrastructure is also being rapidly developed across the UK.

While a number of specialist companies had already developed small electric city cars (which are actually legally classed as 'quadricycles') – including the Reva G-WIZ micro-car and the MEGA City – more recently, mainstream auto makers are now offering proper electric cars, with most of the major manufacturers likely to follow suit in the next two years in the westend glasgow.

With this accelerated development, the price of electric cars is also falling. Although they remain more expensive than conventional cars, some new electric models such as the Nissan LEAF are now priced at around £25,000, supported by the new Plug-in Car Grant worth up to £5,000 is available for the purchase of selected new electric vehicles in the UK. That said, a recent report by LowCVP clearly shows that (on average) electric cars will continue to have higher whole life costs at least until 2030 – see also EV costs.

The vehicles that qualify for the Plug-in Car Grant now include at least nine electric cars – with more to become eligible during 2013. Both private car buyers and fleets can receive the Grant, which is administered by the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) – no applications forms are required as the dealership completes all the necessary paperwork on the buyer's behalf and the grant is automatically deducted from the vehicle price at the point of purchase.
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FAQ: If I buy a new electric car, how many years will I get out of my batteries before they need to be replaced? And how much will they cost to replace?

This is the question EV manufacturers would really like to know with a higher confidence level. It depends... on how you treat your electric car, the climate and terrain where the car is used, what type of recharging system is used and the vehicle's battery technology. In general, the industry is betting on at least 7 years battery life from new - until they can only retain around 80% of their original capacity. So they should still be usable, but the vehicle's range would be lower by 20%. In reality, some packs are going to last longer and some will give up the ghost well before. Replacement cost? For a lithium-ion pack, expect to pay £7-£10k. partick

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Happy new year westend Glasgow

Im sure that most of 2013 wont be all happy all of the time but as long as for the most part it is we wish you a happy new year!

Westend glasgow electricians that is us and what we are about, so this year we plan to advertise more locally in the westend Glasgow

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This is the last blog of 2013 from WES Electrical, its been a fantastic year always learning year on year on how to deal with business, new situations that can arise, new customer we meet and new business relationships in Glasgow/ clarkston / giffnock / newton mearns that we have made.

Business is fantastic and hopfully going into 2013 we maintain the standard going forward. As per every start of a new year we work out an advertising budget going forward this year we are going to focus on paisley the westend of glasgow, and bearsden. with a busdget of around 2000£ p/m we aim to be pretty busy.
As our goal is to take on a new electrician by february and a new apprentice for the start of june.

We have updates to our websites electricians westend glasgow and to our electricians bearsden.
over the festive period we have been busy with call to attend mostly domestic clients but it is difficult to get materials at this time of year but, usually with the stock we have in our vans and our office in the westend of glasgow we usually get the job done.

thanks for reading our blogs this year, this has been the first year of blogging for us and look to continue into the foreseeable future.

Have a great time tonight for the bells and have a great new year....dont drink too much.

W.E.S Electrical 01418405236

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ELECTRICIANS EICR GLASGOW

Coming to the end of 2012 after a long year, and reflecting on how much things can change in business in a year, first off you would not believe a year ago how much of an importance blogging is and website 2.0 maintenance can have an effect on website traffic. But throughout this year i have learned more and more in regards to this and aim to put it all to goo use for W.E.S Electrical in 2013. Still working through the holidays but was in the westend Glasgow earlier today before a journey to Bearsden Glasgow. First job was to price up a job for the new year and second job was a shower installation in Bearsden. The shower install was the only real work i had on today as i dont usually count quoting for jobs as work. Firstly i have to inspect the shower to see if it was fixible or not, after removing the cover i noticed that the terminal cables on the shower side of the installation and they were burned.Futher testing with my electrical meter tells me that the element has shorted and most likely has caused the electrial burning. next i have to isolate the water,now finding the water isolation switch can be challenging , and this one certainly was, it was located somwhere in the attic, but noone in the house know which one, so up i went into the dark attic with my torch, to follow the pipe work. Luckly the plumber who installed the pipe was sensible and installed a isolation valve on it. so it turned out to be not to bad to find after climbing over some things in the attic. Next it was off to bnq to get a triton shower, and then back to fit the shower. the cable at the original installation was a 6mm2 twin and earth which limits me to what wattage of shower i can install, i chose to install the 8.5kw option. the triton shower goes on with no real issues and after connecting the pipe and the cable i turn the power and the water back on and the shower is now fully operational. Bearsden electricians westend glasgow electricians feel free to check out our website www.wesuk.co.uk

Hyndland road Rewire beofre xmas

hi there > this will be the last blog for a few days as we took on a last minute rewire in hyndland road in the westend of glasgow. 6 bedroom house - fully rewired 4 socket points per room and kitchen install, this is goiny be a crazy week but wee aim to have this done 5 days tops so looks like we will be working over the weekend....need to get christmas shopping aswell. we have a team of 3 electricians and one laborer on site just to get it moving rather swiftly, this job is for a client who has used us many times before for renovation projects and asked us to take on this rewire project. cable we will use 1.5mm t+e 2 core and 3 core and earth 2.5mm t+e 2 core and earth 4mm t+e 2 core and earth 6mm t+e 2 core and earth 10mm t+ 2 core and earth this client found us straight from an internet search for 'electricians westend glasgow' which is down to the hard seo work i do day in day out over the past 4 years aswell as my day job, i feel to be competitive you need to do seo, ideally if i had a bigger turnover i would employ someone to work in my office at seo and maby look to that next year. havr a great xmas www.weselectrical.co.uk

Electrician in Clarkston

My new website is up and running finally. my site is www.weselectrical.co.uk and we are based in Clarkston in Glasgow. We have recently moved from the westend Glasgow to southside Glasgow - Clarkston, this is my 3rd website as i have moved over the years and look to keep my work as locally as i can. these are my top tips for electrical safety in the home

1. DON'T plug a bunch of stuff into one outlet or extension cord. It could damage the electrical system in your house or even cause a fire. 2. Make sure all electric cords are tucked away, neat and tidy. Pets might chew on electrical cords, and people might trip and fall. 3. DON'T ever climb the fence around an electrical substation. If a ball or pet gets inside the fence, ask a grown-up to call the electric company - they'll come and get it out for you. 4. DON'T yank an electrical cord from the wall. Pulling on a cord can damage the appliance, the plug or the outlet. 5. Fly your kite far away from power lines or substations. The kite and the string may conduct electricity - sending it right through you to the ground. 6. Ask a grown-up for help when you need to use something that uses electricity. 7. DO look up and look out for power lines before you climb a tree. The electricity can go right through the tree branch - and right through you! 8. Have a grown-up put safety caps on all unused electrical outlets. Covering outlets will also help save energy by stopping cold drafts. 9. Remind your mom or dad to watch out for power lines when they're using a ladder, chainsaw or other outdoor equipment. 10. Keep electrical stuff far away from water. Most electrical accidents around the house happen when people use electricity near water. Always consult a qualified electrician before doing any work