Belgian grid operator Elia has awarded the contract to design and build four substations on the world’s first “energy island” in the North Sea. The planned Princess Elisabeth Island, which…

US architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has teamed up with Swiss energy storage company Energy Vault to create four building prototypes that can generate and store their own energy.…

A Dutch waste-to-energy specialist has formed a partnership with the government of Lagos State in Nigeria to build a plant to power some 40,000 homes. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Harvest…

China’s State Grid Corporation has started a $3.9bn project to boost the ability of its national grid to deal with intermittent generation. It will string a 1,069km ultra-high voltage transmission…

Chinese energy company Huadian has proposed the construction of a $2.4bn green hydrogen plant in central Vietnam, local media report. The state-owned company is looking to carry out the project…

US company Energy Vault’s first commercial-scale gravity energy storage plant is preparing to go live in Jiangsu province, China. The 100MWh project in Rudong district uses the New York-listed company’s…

Ontario will refurbish a nuclear power station near Toronto to extend its life by 30 years amid rapid growth in demand for electricity. Province-owned company Ontario Power Generation (OPG) will…

Energy company Saudi Aramco has chosen Spanish engineer Tecnicas Reunidas and China’s Sinopec to build a $3.3bn gas refinery in Saudi Arabia. Tecnicas Reunidas will own 65% of the project,…

A consortium of Vinci subsidiary Cobra IS, Acciona, and energy distributor Endeavour Energy has signed a commitment deed contract for a €6.15bn public-private partnership (PPP) project to erect a transmission…

Cimic Group companies UGL and CPB Contractors have been selected by Transgrid to deliver the western section of the HumeLink high voltage electricity transmission project. Spanning some 385km, HumeLink will…

The government of Denmark last week suspended plans to build an “energy island” in the North Sea and is investigating the possibility of replacing it with platforms. The idea had…

Swedish battery maker Northvolt has completed work on Europe’s largest factory for energy storage solutions. The 50,000 sq m Northvolt Dwa plant, located in the port of Gdansk in Poland,…

The World Bank will give $200m in grant financing to help Ukraine repair the energy infrastructure Russia has destroyed in its invasion. The money will pay for critical equipment needed…

Arcadis and Volt Advisory are designing a renewable microgrid for the Daintree region of Far North Queensland as an alternative to burning 4 million litres of diesel in generators a…

Egyptian prime minister Mostafa Madbouly announced yesterday that China Energy Engineering Corporation will break ground in May on one of the country’s first green hydrogen projects.

SNC-Lavalin’s Candu Energy has won a two-year project worth C$65m to prepare for the life-extending refurbishment of a nuclear reactor in Romania.

EDF Renewables has formed a partnership with Belgian utility Luminus and marine and wind specialist Jan De Nul to bid for the wind power element of Belgium’s first offshore ‘energy island’.

More than half of German construction companies expect a decline in output this year and only 15% think their businesses will expand, according to a survey by the German Economic…