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Elsewedy Electric and The Arab Contractors have connected three hydro turbine generators to Tanzania’s national grid.

The initiative focuses on the deployment of advanced conductors and grid enhancing technologies, aiming to enhance transmission capacity and efficiency.

The projects include the installation of substation equipment, 28 underground and 69 overhead transformers, 938 sections of underground and overhead cable and 241 poles.

Germany, Munich/Denmark, Fredericia: Siemens Energy and Danish state-owned Energinet have announced a €1.4 billion (DKK 10.5 billion) framework agreement to renew Denmark’s energy infrastructure. To…

Kuwait Oil Company has sealed an agreement with the Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy to link 1 GW of renewable energy plants to the national electricity grid.

National Grid is working with Smart Wires on an innovation project to make better use of grid enhancing technologies such as advanced power flow controllers.

Terna announced plans to help the country integrate renewable energy sources into its economy and make the network digital and more flexible.

The country aims to reduce its reliance on coal.

This includes the first five awards totalling $139 million under the Powering Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) program and $2.2 billion in funding to 39 projects.

The firm will conduct a project for 500 kV underground power network between Badr City and the new HVDC converter station.

Distribution system operators of DTEK Grids plan to invest UAH 4 billion ($103.7 million) in the power grids in Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv regions and Kyiv in 2024.

Iraq has approved funds for long-term plans to expand power transmission and distribution with the help of Germany’s Siemens.

Overnight on January 29-30, Russia carried out an attack with Shahed loitering drones, and caused damage to equipment at one of Ukrenergo’s substations in central Ukraine.

The project is part of a wider programme to expand Senegal’s transmission and distribution grid.

The Department of Energy has announced $34 million for 12 projects across 11 states to strengthen and modernize America’s aging power grid.

Electricity transmission company Power Grid Corporation of India was declared a successful bidder under a tariff based competitive bidding (TBCB) for a transmission project in Rajasthan.

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group approved a $33.25 million grant to Mozambique to implement the Songo-Matambo transmission line project.

New substations and thousands of kilometres of overhead transmission lines to connect them to older ones are to be built in Nigeria to supplement its electricity grid.

ESO has announced its plans for power grid upgrades and expansion by 2023.

The Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company (KEGOC) built five 220-kilovolt power transmission lines with a total length of approximately 780 km.

The funds across 11 states will strengthen efficiency of grid operations and prevent outages to achieve a net-zero economy by 2050.

Greece and Saudi Arabia agreed to set up a jointly-owned company that will look at linking their power grids.

President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is giving Ohio $14 million, which will be used for enhancement of the state’s power grid.

More than $14 million in federal funds is flowing into Montana to improve the state’s energy grid.