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Seaway wins Sandbank substation work

GERMANY: Seaway Heavy Lifting has won the contract to transport and install the substation for the 2...

Interconnectors eligible for UK capacity market auction

UK: Operators of interconnection cables will be eligible to be entered in the 2015 capacity market a...

SSE hires ABB for Scottish transmission project

UK: SSE has awarded a £460 million (EUR 580 million) contract for the 1.2GW subsea cable system in S...

Illinois clears 3.5GW wind transmission link

UNITED STATES: The Illinois Commerce Commission has approved plans to build a 3.5GW transmission lin...

Companies invited to tender for 288MW transmission work

BELGIUM: The consortium behind the 288MW Rentel offshore project in Belgian waters has invited expre...

Balfour Beatty to be awarded Thanet transmission licence

UK: Balfour Beatty is set to be handed the Offshore Transmission Owner (OFTO) licence for the 300MW ...

Pondera and Arcadis win Dutch EIA work

NETHERLANDS: Pondera Consult and Arcadis are to oversee the environmental impact assessment for the ...

Noordoostpolder set for grid connection

NETHERLANDS: System operator Tennet has completed testing the connection cables for the 370MW Noordo...

Costs force ABB to abandon offshore converter work

SWITZERLAND: ABB has announced plans to stop constructing offshore platforms, as part of a new busin...

Costs force ABB to abandon offshore converter work

SWITZERLAND: ABB will stop constructing offshore platforms, as part of a new company business model....

Block Island transmission granted go ahead

UNITED STATES: The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has approved the transmission system ...

Vos wins UK cable hang-off order

UK: Vos Prodect Innovations has won an order to supply 15 of its cable hang-off systems to an offsho...

German 2016 renewables levy set out

GERMANY: Germany's renewable energy levy is expected to be between EUR 0.0566/kWh and EUR 0.0727/kWh...

Question of the Week: Do we need energy storage?

WORLDWIDE: Following the news that Siemens is developing a system to store thermal energy in rocks, ...

Belgium tests wind for grid balancing task

Belgium's transmission system operator Elia is carrying out a pilot project to see if wind project c...

Grid delays cause further SA delays

SOUTH AFRICA: Ongoing grid extension delays will likely force postponement of South Africa's 1.1GW "...

Lincs transmission ownership awarded

UK: UK energy regulator Ofgem has awarded the Transmission Capital Partners (TCP) consortium the lic...

Siemens developing thermal energy storage system

GERMANY: Siemens is developing a system of storing thermal energy in rocks with the aim of using it ...

Humber Gateway substation in place

UK: MPI Offshore has completed the installation of the offshore electrical substation at the 219MW H...

EIB supports Irish wind connections

IRELAND: The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed a EUR 100 million loan facility with transmis...