Transmission & distribution and smart grid - Page 1

GE and Sembcorp seal Sofia transmission deal
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 by The consortium of GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions and Sembcorp Marine has been awarded the full contract to supply the HVDC transmission system converter substations for RWE’s 1.4...

Ørsted to develop huge renewable hydrogen plant
Tuesday, April 06, 2021 by 'SeaH2Land' is an ambitious vision, linking GW-scale electrolysis to the large industrial demand in the Dutch-Flemish North Sea Port cluster through an envisaged regional...

Crete’s record-breaking subsea interconnection completed
Tuesday, April 06, 2021 by On 1 April Prysmian Group and independent power transmission operator IPTO successfully completed the submarine interconnection between the island of Crete and the Peloponnese...

Prysmian finalises Sofia offshore cable contract
Tuesday, March 30, 2021 by Prysmian Group has finalised its contract agreement with RWE Renewables, worth over €200 million, for the development of the turnkey high voltage submarine and land export...

‘Future-ready’ grid control centre system
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 by Ellevio, Sweden’s second largest grid company, has contracted with Siemens Smart Infrastructure for the delivery of a new grid control system for its distribution network. The...

GE begins microgrid study
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 by GE Energy Consulting along with its subcontractor and partner Nexant, has started work on a microgrid feasibility and evaluation study for the town of Bedford in Massachusetts, USA....

IFA2 interconnector is open for business
Tuesday, February 02, 2021 by 22 January marked the opening of the new power line, IFA2, linking France and England, after 33 months of construction and 3 months of testing.

Hitachi ABB launches first HV hybrid switchgear for offshore
Wednesday, December 23, 2020 by Hitachi ABB Power Grids' latest high-voltage hybrid switchgear for offshore wind applications is the first-of-its-kind to enable the wind tower connecting grid to operate at a...

Hitachi ABB Power Grids energises NordLink
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 by On 9 December Hitachi ABB Power Grids announced energisation of the NordLink project, a 623 km long high voltage direct current interconnection that for the first time links German...

Accenture makes strategic investment in Reactive Technologies
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 by Accenture has made a strategic investment and formed a strategic alliance with Reactive Technologies, a London-based provider of power and grid technology, to help utilities...

Power firms to deliver underwater super-highway
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 by Three of the UK’s largest energy firms have confirmed that they are developing ambitious plans to deliver an underwater super-highway that will see the North Sea become the hidden...

50Hertz and Energinet inaugurate world’s first hybrid interconnector
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 by On 20 October, 50Hertz and the Danish system operator Energinet inaugurated the world’s first hybrid offshore interconnector, integrating the German Baltic 1 and Baltic 2 offshore...

Hitachi ABB system for IFA2 interconnector
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 by Hitachi ABB Power Grids will be delivering its HVDC Light system for the IFA2 Britain-France interconnector project, which is now entering its final commissioning phase.

Emerson to buy Open Systems International Inc.
Tuesday, September 01, 2020 by Emerson has agreed to acquire Open Systems International for $1.6 billion in an all cash transaction. OSI Inc. is a leading operations technology software provider that...

Siemens delivers technology for seventh offshore wind farm connection
Wednesday, August 19, 2020 by Siemens Energy is to supply a new HVDC connection to the BorWin5 offshore array in the North Sea. A contract has been agreed between the German-Dutch network operator TenneT and...

Shetland link supplier announced
Wednesday, August 05, 2020 by Hitachi ABB Power Grids has won the order from Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks Transmission, part of the UK energy major SSE plc, to enable Europe’s first...

Green light for Scottish island link
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 by UK energy regulator Ofgem has given the go-ahead for the construction of a 600 MW HVDC interconnector between the Scottish mainland and the Shetland Islands. The decision was...

Longest subsea link reaches construction milestone
Wednesday, July 08, 2020 by National Grid and Statnett report that North Sea Link, a 1.4 GW, 720 km subsea interconnector between Norway and Britain, has reached the halfway point of construction. On the way it...

SuedLink contracts awarded to Prysmian and NKT
Wednesday, July 01, 2020 by German TSOs TenneT and TransnetBW have selected NKT and Prysmian to supply and install two 525 kV XLPE insulated underground cables for the SuedLink. The two cable manufacturers will...