Grid

Power Construction

Hitachi ABB Power Grids Unveils New Substation Monitoring Technology

Hitachi ABB Power Grids has launched a new reliability-based service solution, RelCare.

United Kingdom

SonnenBatteries, V2G and EV Smart Chargers Feature in UK’s First ‘Combined Grid Service’ Offering

"Intelligent energy platform" company Kaluza is claiming a UK first as it provides one of the country's distribution network operators (DNOs) with flexibility f…

Power Construction

Enel Romania Investing EUR 100 Million in Electricity Network Modernization in 2020

Enel Romania’s power distribution companies will invest about EUR 100 million during 2020 in electricity network modernization in the capital Bucharest and the…

Power Construction

South Africa Seeks to Boost Grid System with Dispatchable Power

South Africa has been experiencing power supply issues and is now looking into available options including dispatchable power to boost the grid.

Power Construction

Another 500MVA Transformer Unit to Aid in Supporting Eskom Grid

In South Africa, a local Pretoria-based transformer manufacturer’s high voltage unit effectively passed all factory acceptance tests at the end of July.

Electric Vehicle Charging

Australia’s Rectifier Technologies Unveils its First Bi-Directional DC Charger

Rectifier Technologies is seeking trial program coordinators and utilities to test the incorporation of bi-directional capabilities with electricity grid networ…

Power Construction

California’s Renewable Energy Conundrum

Amid a heatwave in the West, the largest U.S. solar state, California, is grappling with power issues and with keeping its electricity grid stable as demand exc…

Power Construction

GE Secures $1.2bn of Power Contracts from Iraq Power Ministry

The Government of Iraq has awarded two power generation and transmission contracts, valued at more than $1.2bn, to General Electric.

New-Build Energy Storage System with Solar, Lithium & Victron

With solar on the roof and lithium batteries, they want ket house circuits to remain on even if the power grid goes off.

Ultra-high voltage grid

Video: India's Ultra High Voltage DC Power Transmission Project

India is building mega HVDC power transmission lines across the country and upgrading its electric.

Power Construction

German Power Grids Spend 750 mln Euros as Frankfurt Adds Data Centres

More power is also required to digitalise the German energy industry's transition to reliance on volatile green power, and to support the mass arrival of electr…

Nuclear Power Plant

The UAE's Newly-Launched Nuclear Power Plant Connects to National Grid

The UAE's newly-launched nuclear power plant connects to national grid.

Energy Storage Battery

LS Power Energizes World’s Biggest Battery, Just in Time for California’s Heat Wave

Gateway Energy Storage heralds the arrival of a new era of mega-batteries on the U.S. grid.

Nuclear Power Plant

UAE's Nuclear Power Plant Connects to the National Grid in a Major Regional Milestone

Unit 1 of the UAE's Barakah plant — the Arab world's first nuclear energy plant — has connected to the national power grid.

Microgrid

Annual Revenue for DER in Microgrids to Expand 18% by 2029

Revenue generated for the deployment of distributed energy resources in microgrid projects will expand by 18% between 2020 and 2029.