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Wind Farm

Pattern Energy Selects EPC Contractors for America’s Largest Wind Energy Project

SunZia Transmission will enable access to the 3,500+ MW SunZia Wind project, powering the needs of 3 million Americans.Pattern Energy Group LP (Pattern Energy),…

Renewable Energy

Industry Veteran Adam Smith Joins ArcVera Renewables as Business Development Manager

ArcVera Renewables, a leading provider of consulting and technical services for wind, solar, and energy storage projects, announces the expansion of its busines…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Tokamak Energy’s Magnets to Be Tested at US Sandia Laboratories

UK-based Tokamak Energy in February announced that it had built the first set of new generation high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets to be assembled a…

Offshore Wind Power

NJBPU Launches Second Offshore Wind Transmission Solicitation

New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has requested PJM Interconnection (PJM), New Jersey’s regional grid operator, to include New Jersey’s c…

Geothermal Heating Project

PGPC to Increase Geothermal Capacity by 300 MW in the Next Five Years

Conglomerate SMIC will be spending PhP 3 billion annually over the next five years to develop 300 MW of additional geothermal capacity for PGPC.

Power Construction

National Grid and Tennet Collaborate on Proposed First-Of-A-Kind Anglo-Dutch Electricity Link

LionLink, which was included as a key project in today’s North Sea Energy Declaration, could connect wind farms to the electricity grids of both countries…

Electricity Transmission

Transgrid Begins Constructing Workers’ Camps in Lockhart for Australia’s Energyconnect Project

Transgrid plans to establish six workforce camps along the EnergyConnect alignment, with a total of 1,387 beds.Transgrid has begun construction of a 20-hectare …

Energy Safety

UNDP Hires Boskalis to Prevent ‘Enormous Oil Disaster’ Offshore Yemen

Dutch offshore services provider Boskalis has, through its subsidiary SMIT Salvage, reached an agreement with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to…

Offshore Wind Power

Tennet Awards New Multi-Billion-Euro Contract for Three Offshore Grid Connections in Germany

After recently awarding EUR 23 billion worth of contracts for eleven offshore grid connections, the German-Dutch transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT has n…

Hydropower Plant

900 MW HVDC Newfoundland Transmission Line (Finally) Successfully Commissioned

Map of the the Labrador-Island Link, in yellow. Credit: EmeraAfter nine years of planning, delays and billions in cost overruns, a massive new transmission line…

LNG

EU Gas TSOs Launch International Tender for Hydrogen Corridor Pre-feasibility Study

An international tender for a pre-feasibility study for the Nordic-Baltic Hydrogen Corridor, a cross-border hydrogen project being developed by six European Uni…

Wind Farm

Namibian-Chinese Joint Venture to Build 50 MW Wind Power Plant

Namibia’s power utility, NamPower, and CERIM Luderitz Energy, a joint venture between Energy China and locally owned Riminii Investments, on Monday signed…

Energy Storage System

Berkshire Hathaway-Owned Us Utility Pacificorp Targets 7.4GW Energy Storage by 2029

Western US electricity utility Pacificorp has released its 2023 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) outlining significant solar, wind and storage capacity expansions…

Power Construction

Saudi-Iraqi Power Interconnection Project Gets Boost

The project is part of the broader cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Iraq, aimed at improving reliability of the electrical networks in the two countries, en…

Electricity Transmission

A Tipping Point for America’s Grid

The American grid is reaching a tipping point. With electric vehicles (EVs) making up 5% of all new vehicle sales last year, there is an urgent need to prepare …