#France

France, Saint-Nazaire: Fabrication of the offshore substation topside for the Fécamp offshore wind farm is progressing in Saint-Nazaire.

France, Paris: A new high-voltage power line between France and Britain is expected to go live by the end of January.

France, Paris: Nexans is to supply specialised power cables to Australia’s solar farms.

SRD and GÉRÉDIS Deux-Sèvres awarded Efacec the modernisation of the command centres responsible for managing the electrical distribution network in New Aquitaine.

France, Paris: Global power producer ENGIE has appointed Gillian-Alexandre Huart as CEO of ENGIE Energy Access.

Atlantique Offshore Energy has begun construction of the Fécamp offshore wind farm electrical substation with its partners GE Grid Solutions and SDI.

Michel Augonnet has taken the position of the new President of CIGRE, and Michael Heyeck became the Vice President of Finance (Treasurer).

France: Trench has developed, tested, and launched the first high voltage bushing insulated with biodegradable ester fluid.

France: The installation of Saint Nazaire’s offshore substation is due to start in summer 2020, despite COVID-19 impacts.

Consortium Atlantique Offshore Energy, GE Grid Solutions, and Société de Dragage International made a contract to deliver electrical substations to 2 wind farms

France: RTE is proposing to invest $36.4 B (33 B euros) by 2035 to renovate the French network and add more international power lines.

France: French duo Ideol and Atlantique Offshore Energy have unveiled market-ready plans for a floating substation for the offshore wind sector.

France, Paris: Exxelia, a global designer and manufacturer of highly engineered passive components, will exhibit two innovative products.

France, Cadarache: Last week a 14-metre long transformer supplied to ITER, world’s largest tokamak, by a manufacturer in China was moved to its permanent location.

France, Paris: GE has successfully commissioned back-to-back high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter facilities for the Brazil-Uruguay interconnection project, as well as extended and equipped existing substations for Interconexiones del Sur (ISUR).

France, Paris: Last week in Paris, Eskom’s technology master specialist, Dr Rob Stephen, was elected President of Cigre, an international council on large electric systems.

France/Ireland: France and Ireland plan to build a 1-billion-euro (USD 1.10 billion) power link to connect the two countries by 2025.

France: The passengers in Eurostar have been evacuated outside Paris after a fire had broken out in one of the transformers which affected its service log.

France, Paris: GE has announced it recently introduced the first environmentally-friendly transformer designed for railway applications in Germany.

KOREA and FRANCE, Paris: GE and LSIS signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for comprehensive cooperation in power, smart energy, and smart factory solutions.

UK, London: Over the next two years General Electric plans to cut up to 6,500 jobs in energy units the company bought from Alstom.

South Africa: South Africa’s largest utility company Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. signed a 150 million-euro (nearly $160 million) credit agreement with France’s development agency to enhance reliability of the power grid and help the power company improve distribution of electricity.

France, Paris: Yesterday GE announced that it had completed the acquisition of Alstom’s power and grid businesses, following the regulatory approval of the deal in over 20 countries and regions including the EU, U.S., China, India, Japan and Brazil.

France: Toshiba T&D Europe has awarded Alstom with a contract to supply its high voltage equipment for the power transmission interconnection between Italy and Montenegro.

France: Alstom has been awarded a contract worth over €300 million by TERNA Rete Italia, a company fully owned by TERNA, the Italian electricity transmission system operator, and Réseau de Transport d’Électricité (RTE), its French counterpart, to build two High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) converter stations for the transmission link between France and Italy.

Switzerland, Zurich: The electrical transmission system operator RTE France has awarded ABB a contract worth around $25 million for the supply of transformer products and services for the ongoing offshore wind power projects that will help boost France’s renewable energy supply.

ABB to exhibit eco-efficient distribution transformers at CIRED in Lyon

France, Brittany: France’s first subsea tidal power plant built by GE Power Conversion for Electricité de France (EDF) near Paimpol-Brehat, Brittany, will be completed at the end of 2015.