The state of Texas has reached its goal of 10,000MW of installed renewable energy capacity this year, 15 years earlier than scheduled, thanks to the explosive growth of wind farms. Ninety-nine per cent of the 10,367MW of installed capacity is in the form of wind power and the state has some of the USA’s best …
The Canadian province of Quebec is to invest CAD32bn by 2035 on additional hydropower capacity and transmission lines, on top of the CAD25bn already budgeted by Hydro-Quebec between now and 2015.
According to US Natural Resources Minister Nathalie Normandeau, the additional investment is being made to both expand power production for regional users and to export …
‘Roadmap 2050: a practical guide to a prosperous, low-carbon Europe’ was published today by the European Climate Foundation (ECF).
The project finds that in a decarbonised power system, the future cost of electricity is comparable to the future cost of electricity in the current carbon-intensive infrastructure. Roadmap 2050 also shows that with the necessary investments in …
A study performed by researchers at the University of Delaware has indicated that if all US offshore wind farms were connected via transmission lines, much of the variability and intermittency associated with this form of power generation would be eliminated. As a result, there would be no point at which the whole system would not …
Sempra Energy (NYSE:SRE) has told analysts via a meeting Webcast, that it is looking to selling its trading joint venture it owns with the Royal Bank of Scotland (LSE:RBS.L). It intends to sell the JV’s European and Asian trading operations to JP Morgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) for US$1.7bn, by June or July, and the …
A group of 10 European companies will today launch an ambitious plan for the creation of an electricity supergrid in the North Sea, that will connect Germany, Norway and the UK at an estimated cost of EUR34bn (US$46.42bn).
According to the Friends of the Super-grid group, which is launching the plan in London, the project …
According to China’s State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, State Grid Corp of China, the country’s largest power utility, will soon begin construction on what will be its first smart grid project. Located in Tianjin, North China, the first phase of the project is expected to be complete by the end of 2011.
According to …
According to Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan, the Sarawak Public Utilties Minister, Sarawak Energy Bhd (SEB) has completed technical studies for five proposed hydroelectric dams, which together represent over 3000MW of generating capacity.
The dams will be situated at Balleh (1400MW), Pelagus (410MW), both in the upper Rejang River basin in central Sarawak, Baram (1200MW), …
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth US$107m from SNEL (Société Nationale d’Électricité), the national power company in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to upgrade key technology on one of the world’s longest electricity transmission systems. The contract was signed in the fourth quarter of 2009.
ABB will refurbish the …
Power Grid Corporation of India has announced that it will invest INR500bn (US$10.85bn) in developing seven transmission corridors across the country over the next five years. This will enable more efficient use of around 55,000MW of power, generated from independent power producers and merchant power plants in Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Jharkhand.
A PGCIL executive said that: …
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