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Italy's Terna earmarks over EUR 7bn for grid upgrades
Italian grid operator Terna SpA has committed to spend EUR 7.3 billion (USD 8.27bn) to modernise and strengthen the country’s power network over the next five years in support of climate targets requiring higher volumes of green power.
read more... 12/03/2020
Germany faces possible 7 GW supply deficit from 2022 – TSOs
Germany may need neighbours to cover up to 7 GW of its peak potential power demand during cold, dark periods of low wind output from 2022, network operators said in a study on Wednesday.
read more... 27/02/2020
Grid-Scale Batteries to Provide Balancing Services for Largest Transmission-Connected Storage Network
Pivot Power, an EDF Renewables company specializing in battery storage and infrastructure for electric vehicle charging, has placed an order with technology group Wärtsilä to deliver 100 MW of energy storage in the UK.
read more... 26/02/2020
Centrica and sonnen team up to create UK's 'most advanced' virtual power plant
Network of 100 batteries in homes across the UK will be linked via the cloud to provide demand response services to the grid
read more... 20/01/2020
World's 1st floating nuclear power plant connects to grid
The world's first floating nuclear power plant (NPP), Akademik Lomonosov, was grid-connected to provide electricity for the first time in the remote Chaun-Bilibino network in the coastal gold-mining town of Pevek, in Russia's Far East, Russian State Atomic Corporation Rosatom announced on Thursday.
read more... 20/12/2019