Brazil’s Growth Acceleration Programme (PAC) is supporting 474 energy-related projects, involving a total investment of $47 billion.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has announced up to $50 billion for new energy initiatives by 2035 across Asia, aiming to connect power grids and expand cross-border electricity trade.
China has started construction of the Tibet section of an ultra-high-voltage (UHV) power transmission line that will transmit clean energy from Tibet to the southern coastal province of Guangdong.
Taihan Cable & Solution has announced that it has won a project to supply EHV submarine cables for a solar power generation project in Sinan County, Jeollanam-do, South Korea.
India’s power grid struggled on 18 April as peak electricity demand hit a record for April of 239 GW, driven by high heat and consequent high cooling demand. This demand was higher than last April’s peak, indicating a hard summer ahead.
The UK’s grid connection queue is being reordered according to readiness rather than arrival date. But the so-called Under Gate 2 reforms risks locking small developers and communities out of the energy transition.
By Simon Reilly, Chief Executive of Aurora Utilities
ScottishPower has won financing of £600 million from the UK’s National Wealth Fund to support development of the Eastern Green Link 4 (EGL4), a 2 GW HVDC cable between Fife in Scotland and Norfolk in England.
Cuba’s Electric Union (UNE) has announced that the nation’s power grid suffered a total grid on 16 March, with the whole island being subjected to a blackout. UNE, the state power utility, said that efforts are underway to restore power.
The Caribbean Transmission Development Company (CTDC) has announced that the US Department of Energy (DOE) has granted a permit for the $2.5 billion Project Hostos to enable power to be transmitted from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico.
The UK investor Gridworks has signed agreements to develop and finance around £350 million in electricity transmission projects in Ethiopia. The projects are the first public-private partnerships in Ethiopia’s transmission sector.