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EC awards Mainstream cash for UK-Ireland transmission work

EUROPE: Mainstream has been handed a EUR 1.4 million grant by the European Commission to conduct sur...

GE to develop Vietnamese grid for wind

VIETNAM: GE is to develop a new grid code for Vietnam in order to integrate up to 6GW of the country...

German public shies away from Tennet grid investment

GERMANY: Tennet has fallen short in its bid to persuade the public to sign up to a subscription rais...

Electricity from offshore wind rises in UK

UK: There was a 5.9% increase in electricity generated from offshore wind in the UK from July to Sep...

Deepwater Wind proposes changes to Block Island

UNITED STATES: Developer Deepwater Wind is looking to change the shore landing and buried land route...

Windpower TV - ABB UK's grid system director, Stephanie McGregor

ABB UK's grid system director, Stephanie McGregor, talks about the biggest challenges in getting the...

Windpower TV - EWEA Offshore leaders debate - supply chain

GERMANY: An expert panel joins Windpower TV to discuss how to improve the offshore wind supply chain...

Windpower TV - TNEI Services, specialist consultant - regulatory lead, Anna Ferguson

UK: TNEI Services' specialist consultant, Anna Ferguson talks about what effect the addition of chun...

US approves 1.5GW transmission line

UNITED STATES: The US government has approved the majority of a 990-mile (1,600-kilometre) HVAC tran...

Xinjiang adds 1GW wind power in four months

CHINA: Grid-connected wind power capacity in north-west China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region rea...

Fukushima floating turbine receives subsea cable connectors

UK: Cable specialist First Subsea has supplied its self-activated cable connectors to the Fukushima ...

Fukushima floating turbine receives subsea cable connectors

UK: Cable specialist First Subsea has supplied its self-activated cable connectors to the Fukushima ...

Windpower TV -- Stephen Trotter, ABB managing director Power Systems Division UK and Ireland

UK: Moving from a largely centralised energy generation system to one that is more widely distribute...

Microsoft buys first wind PPA in green push

UNITED STATES: Microsoft has announced it has signed a 110MW PPA with RES for a project in Texas, fo...

The trouble with capacity markets

WORLDWIDE: Are capacity payments essential for guaranteeing security of supply in a high renewables ...

Storm shuts down offshore wind turbines off England

UK: A storm that swept across southern England today shut down offshore wind turbines in the region....

Storm shuts down offshore wind turbines off England

UK: A storm that swept across southern England today shut down offshore wind turbines in the region....

Tennet and Transnet plan 800-kilometre German link

GERMANY: Tennet and TransnetBW have teamed up to propose an 800-kilometre direct current line to car...

Belgian pumped storage islands closer to reality

BELGIUM: Belgium's latest marine spatial plan (MSP) has designated two zones where "energy atolls" c...

EIB approves EUR500m Tennet loan

GERMANY: The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced the formal approval of a EUR 500 million l...