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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...

Grid is key to selling wind's benefits

The US and China may be the biggest generators of wind power, but they are also the two worst pollut...

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...