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Oil Pipeline

China's Sinopec Completes Qingdao-Nanjing Gas Pipeline Construction

The 536.13-kilometre pipeline, which also connects to the existing Sichuan-East gas pipeline, is expected to help improve energy security in China's eastern dev…

Nuclear Power Plant

Leningrad NPP Unit 6 Connected to Grid, Delivers First Electricity to Russian Power System

23th October 2020, Sosnovy Bor, Russia. The Leningrad NPP Unit 6 equipped with Rosatom’s flagship Generation III+ VVER-1200 reactor was connected to the grid a…

Power Construction

50Hertz and Energinet Unveil World’s First Offshore Interconnector

German transmission system operator 50Hertz and Danish system operator Energinet have inaugurated the world’s first hybrid offshore interconnector to link Germ…

Oil & Gas Trade

Israel And The UAE Sign Historic Oil Deal

Israel and the United Arab Emirates signed this week a preliminary agreement under which crude oil from OPEC’s third-largest producer could be shipped to Europ…

Intersolar Europe 2021

"Connecting Solar Business"Intersolar Europe is the world's leading exhibition for the solar industry. Both the exhibition and the conference focus on the a…

Hydropower Plant

Uganda Waits for Karuma Hydropower Dam to Lower Power Tariffs

If all goes according to plan, the Karuma hydropower dam will be connected to the national grid before the end of this year, a move that could bring down the co…

Electricity Trade

Great Britain Could Become a Net Exporter of Power by 2040s

Cornwall Insight’s ‘Benchmark Power Curve’ predicts that by the 2040s Great Britain (GB) could be an annual net exporter of power to the European continent t…

Macedonia

North Macedonia Submits Draft National Energy Climate Plan to Energy Community

North Macedonia is the first Energy Community Contracting Party to submit its draft National Energy and Climate Plan to the Secretariat.

Gas power plant

Power Link to Replace Gas-Fired Plants in S Australia

The proposed 800MW electricity transmission link between South Australia and New South Wales, known as EnergyConnect, will replace gas-fired plants in South Aus…

Solar Power Plant

China Completes World’s Second-Largest Solar Power Plant

Huanghe Hydropower Development connected its photovoltaic park of 2.2 GW to the grid.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Bosnian Lignite-Fired Plant to Close Until Late October

Bosnia-Herzegovina's 300MW lignite-fired Stanari plant will be disconnected from the grid until the end of October for planned maintenance.

Electricity Transmission

Landmark Transmission Project for China Offshore Wind Turbine

One of China’s largest offshore 8MW wind turbines has been connected to an eco-friendly power transmission system.

Tennessee Power Group Takes Tentative First Step Towards Planned 5GW of Energy Storage

The US state of Tennessee is set to join the advanced energy storage age with the deployment of a 40MWh stationary grid-connected battery storage plant.

Offshore Wind Power

National Grid and TenneT explore North Sea Interconnector Between Offshore Wind Farms

National Grid Ventures, the commercial development arm of National Grid plc, and Dutch Transmission System Operator TenneT have announced a cooperation agreemen…

Electric Vehicle Charging

UK Energy Firms Could Switch Off EV Chargers As Demand Peaks

New rules proposed in the UK could see electricity distributors switching off electric vehicle chargers at home connected to the smart meter system to prevent g…