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Electric Power Industry Needs Urgent Transformation, Huawei's New ICT Empowers Smart Grids

Today marked the Seventh Huawei Global Power Summit themed “Bits Drive Watts, Building a Fully Connected Smart Grid”.

Smart Grid

Bits to Watts for a Fully Connected Smart Grid

Electric power companies around the world want to improve their quality and efficiency by deploying data centres.

Electricity Transmission

Turkey's Karpowership Signs 5-Year Power Deal with Sierra Leone

Karpowership, one of the world's largest operators of floating power plants, has agreed a 5-year deal to provide electricity to Sierra Leone's state power utili…

Electricity Transmission

Britain's National Grid Starts Construction on UK-Denmark Electricity Link

Britain's National Grid said on Monday it had started construction on Viking Link, an electricity interconnector between Britain and Denmark.

Power Construction

Statkraft to Install GE Rotating Stabilizers in Grid-Stabilization Project in Scotland

Statkraft, Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy, has agreed to a deal to help further decarbonize the UK’s power sector and deliver a new approach t…

Power Construction

TSMC Signs Power Purchase Agreement with Ørsted in Taiwan

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has signed a corporate power purchase agreement with Danish renewable energy company Ørsted.

Electricity Transmission

GE Grid Solutions and Sembcorp Bag Sofia Contract

RWE has selected a consortium of GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions and Sembcorp Marine to provide the electrical transmission system for the 1.4 GW Sofia of…

Power Construction

Hellenic Cables to Deliver Seagreen Inter-Array Lines

Seaway 7 has selected Hellenic Cables to deliver inter-array cables for the Seagreen offshore wind farm in Scotland.

Power Construction

Long Recovery Ahead for India's Power Generation

The relaxation of lockdowns failed to drive power demand.

Power Construction

Critical Grid Reforms for Battery Power Delayed

The power supply industry will get only an extra three months to prepare for the major overhaul of IT systems required to move to a five-minute settlement in th…

Electricity Transmission

Adani Transmission to Buy Power Line Operator for $172m

This could bring the company’s cumulative network to 15,400 circuit kilometres.

Electricity Transmission

Combined Generation Saves RWE During Network Failure

Two energy generation plants owned by RWE in the UK have been used to ensure secure energy supply following a network failure which would have caused grid insta…

Power Construction

GE's Grid Solutions To Digitize Oman's Electricity Grid

GE's Grid Solutions established a National Condition Monitoring Center integrated with OETC's operations, to prioritize maintenance strategy for six key 400 kV …

Electricity Trade

India to Ban Imports of Power Equipment from China and Pakistan

The Government of India is reportedly planning to stall power equipment imports from neighbouring countries China and Pakistan.

Power Construction

AEP Energy Signs Power Purchase Agreement with CIP Affiliate

US-based American Electric Power subsidiary AEP Energy has signed a 400MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with a Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners affiliate.