Work starts in June on a 1.4GW pumped storage power plant in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi, the latest start in China’s intense campaign to build hundreds of gigawatts…

A 50-50 joint venture between Egyptian contractor Orascom and Técnicas Reunidas of Spain has been chosen to build a 3GW combined-cycle gas-fired power plant in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province. The…

Four countries are considering a plan to lay the world’s longest undersea power line between wind farms in the Caspian Sea and southeast Europe. Azerbaijan, Georgia, Bulgaria and Romania discussed…

A Chinese industrial conglomerate is to invest $1bn in a pumped-storage system in southwest Cambodia. According to news site Yicai, the Upper Tatai Pumped Storage Power will be added to…

The first 525km of Germany’s hydrogen grid will be built this year, the Zeit Online website reports. Some 507km will be converted from existing gas pipelines, and the rest will…

Businesses in Zimbabwe are warning of severe power outages as the country struggles to repay a Chinese loan that funded a $2bn expansion of its main thermal power station. The…

With new powers to develop independent electricity supplies, the Nigerian state of Lagos has invited bidders to express interest in building a series of gas-fuelled power plants totaling 4GW of…

Oracle is planning to use three small modular reactors (SMRs) to power a 1GW datacentre, according to founder Larry Ellison. He told investors and analysts in an earnings call this…

Iraq has chosen a team of China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) and Siemens to rehabilitate unit two of the Baiji gas power station. The 1.6GW power station in Salahuddin…

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…

Engineering consultant RVA Group has overseen phase one of a three-stage decommissioning and demolition project at the disused Lucy III coal power station in Montceau-les-Mines, France. The works involved the…

Indian contractor Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has won engineering, procurement and construction contracts worth between $300m and $600m in India and Saudi Arabia through its power transmission and distribution subsidiary.…

Vietnam has approved a scheme to prevent a looming power shortage and meet net-zero goals with a $135bn investment package that will favour renewables and gas power rather than coal,…

German grid operator TenneT has hired UK-headquartered Turner & Townsend to project manage part of the SuedOstLink, an underground high-voltage direct-current transmission line that will carry electricity generated from renewables…

A Canadian First Nation community is seeking damages against Quebec’s state-owned utility for the destruction of its land caused by the construction of a dam in Labrador some 50 years…

Norwegian energy company Equinor has teamed up with German utility RWE to develop a supply chain for hydrogen power stations. The aim is to replace Germany’s coal-fired power stations with…

North Carolina clean energy company Net Power plans to build the world’s first utility-scale gas power plant in Texas that will emit almost no CO2 thanks to its carbon capture…

If retailers and developers in the US put photovoltaic panels on the roofs of some 100,000 thousand existing malls and superstores across the country, it could generate 84.4 terawatt-hours (TWh)…