Industry News

  1. Siemens Gamesa To Supply Innovative Hybrid Plant In The Philippines For Berkeley Energy, Reducing Fossil Fuel Use In A Remote Location 5/12/2020

    Siemens Gamesa is fast advancing on an innovative hybrid energy project in Puerto Galera on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines that will provide a stable electricity supply in a location with a weak link to the grid, reducing its dependence on diesel.

  2. Prysmian Wins Again - Securing Over €500M Contract For A-Nord Power Cable Link In Germany 5/11/2020

    Prysmian Group (MI: PRY), world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a contract by Amprion GmbH, the German grid operator, for the A-Nord underground cable connection, part of the 2GW German Corridor "A" electricity transmission project.

  3. GE Energizes The Largest And First-Of-Its-Kind STATCOM Scheme In Europe For UK’s National Grid 5/7/2020

    GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions business [NYSE:GE) has successfully energized the Dynamic Reactive Compensator (DRC) project for National Grid in the UK.

  4. Form Energy Announces Pilot With Great River Energy To Enable The Utility's Transition To An Affordable, Reliable And Renewable Electricity Grid 5/7/2020

    Form Energy, a company developing ultra-low-cost, long-duration energy storage for the grid, today announced it signed a contract with Minnesota-based utility Great River Energy to jointly deploy a 1MW / 150MWh pilot project to be located in Cambridge, MN.

  5. ABB Power Grids Commissions World’s First Transmission Line Under The Yangtze River 5/4/2020

    In a bid to decrease coal consumption and move towards clean energy, China is introducing technologies that reduce carbon footprint. Due to China’s large geographic size, power sources are mostly located away from cities.

  6. Power Grid - New Controlled Switching Device For HV Circuit Breakers - Actionable Results For Asset Health Management And Predictive Maintenance 4/29/2020

    The SynchroTeq Lite sets up a landmark for controlled switching devices (CSDs) that help transmission system operators (TSOs) streamline the maintenance of multi-vendor HV circuit breaker (CB) fleets.

  7. ABB Wins $100M Framework Contract To Strengthen South America’s Power Grid 4/14/2020

    ABB’s Power Grids business has signed a five-year framework contract estimated to be worth around $100M with South America’s largest utilities company, Interconexion Electrica S.A. E.S.P. (ISA).

  8. Northern Vertex Commences Construction Of Powerline To Moss Mine 4/14/2020

    Northern Vertex Mining Corp. (TSX.V: NEE) (OTC Nasdaq Intl.: NHVCF) (the "Company" or "Northern Vertex") is pleased to announce that the Company has commenced construction of a $2.1 million, 6.9 mile electrical transmission system, and has completed a definitive, non-dilutive term loan financing agreement, which will secure the long term low cost power supply to the Moss Mine.

  9. HOMER Grid Users Can Now Design Custom Microgrid Control Strategies 4/13/2020

    HOMER Energy by UL recently released two powerful, customizable Controller APIs that give users the ability to create and simulate their own dispatch strategy in HOMER Grid, software for modeling the design of behind-the-meter distributed energy systems.

  10. Landis+Gyr's Gridstream Connect IoT Network Deployed By EEGSA In Guatemala To Support Variable Electricity Rates 4/8/2020

    Landis+Gyr (Swiss: LAND.SW) continues to expand smart grid capabilities in Central America with the recent completion of an advanced metering project for Empresa Eléctrica De Guatemala S.A. (EEGSA) to support the utility's time-of-use (TOU) rates for reducing peak electricity demand.