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The project, names Sa.Co.I.3, aims to make the electricity system more efficient, reliable, and sustainable.

The link will use advanced converter technology at both ends to stabilize and integrate renewables into the grid, a first for Australia.

SSEN Transmission has announced it has selected Sumitomo Electric Industries and its subsea cable installation partner, Van Oord Offshore Wind UK as preferred bidder for Shetland 2.

This contract, with a total amount of €4.5 billion, marks an acceleration in the development of offshore farms.

ALLETE and North Plains Connector have signed development agreements for the North Plains Connector project.

Hitachi Energy has announced that it is expanding its production in Smedjebacken and Ludvika, in the Dalarna region of Sweden.

Hitachi Energy has announced that it has enabled more than 150 GW of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) links around the world integrated into the power system.

The project linking Hungary and Romania is valued at more than EUR 3 billion.

National Grid and SP Energy Networks to deliver new HVDC subsea transmission link from East Lothian in Scotland to County Durham in England.

Prysmian Group has secured a major €630m Adriatic Link submarine cable project.

L&T secured a contract worth $1.5 B for a 525 kV HVDC line in Saudi Arabia’s NEOM.

Colombia will develop seven power transmission projects to provide additional grid generation capacity.

Power T&D Business by Larsen & Toubro won several orders, including a Saudi Arabia HVDC transmission line.

SSEN Transmission selected Hitachi Energy to supply onshore HVDC converter stations.

HVDC power transmission infrastructure to be used for a Khavda Renewable Energy (RE) zone evacuation scheme in Gujarat.

National Grid and SSEN Transmission agree on a joint venture for UK’s largest ever electricity transmission project.

The $1.8 B project is the first large-scale high-voltage direct current (HVDC) interconnection in the MENA region.

Hitachi Energy signs agreements with ENOWA and Saudi Electricity Company to design and develop phase 1 of NEOM region’s transmission system.

Hitachi’s new structure for Japan’s power grids business with the intention of early achievement of a carbon-neutral society and resiliency of Japan’s electricity network

The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) successfully energized the Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection Project (MVIP).

UK, London: Undersea power cables between UK and Morocco receive funding.

USA: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode Island have proposed to build up to three new HVDC transmission lines for offshore wind in New England.

Sweden, Stockholm: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has contracted the acquisition of Scibreak AB, a Swedish-based company that develops DCCBs.

Hitachi Energy has recently inaugurated a new HVDC and power quality factory in Chennai.