As 2024 comes to a close, it’s worth looking in the rearview mirror to see how far we have travelled and look ahead at the journey to come. Spencer Thompson, CEO of Eclipse Power Group shares his thoughts on the progress made in 2024 towards the UK’s energy system transformation and what we might expect in 2025.
The Canadian Government has announced it will provide Saskatchewan province with C$265 million to modernise and upgrade its power grid and to build more renewable power projects.
Cuba was struck by a nationwide blackout following a failure at the Antonio Guiteras power plant in Matanzas, which shut down at 0200 hrs on 4 December.
The South Australian state government is seeking to have two mothballed diesel-powered power plants restarted due to concerns that a new power cable with New South Wales will be delayed.
Wong Shuk-han, Hong Kong’s Undersecretary for Environment and Ecology, has announced that Hong Kong is planning to strengthen its electricity interconnection with the mainland through a new infrastructure project.
Canada’s Hydro-Quebec is upgrading its 735 kV grid in order to support the energy transition of the province of Québec.
The Indian conglomerate Adani has warned that it is considering cutting all of its supplies of electricity to Bangladesh as a consequence of unpaid dues.
Iraq’s Ministry of Energy (MoE) and GE Vernova have jointly announced the early completion and energisation of five critical substations across Iraq.
On 19 October, Nigeria’s national electricity grid failed for the third time in one week. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said that the latest grid collapse was the result of a transformer explosion.
The Hanbit Nuclear Power Plant in Yeonggwang, South Jeolia Province, South Korea, located in a region with a high concentration of renewable energy sources, has had to reduce its power production five times in the first half of the year due to limitations in the transmission and distribution network.