News Skanska to lay foundations for major carbon capture plant in Sweden Skanska has won an €89.5m (SEK 990 million) contract to build foundations for a major new carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant in Stockholm. The client is heating and electricity…
News China starts $1.5bn pumped-storage plant as water-power campaign gathers steam 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…
News Orascom and Técnicas Reunidas picked to build $2.6bn Saudi power plant 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…
News €10bn plan hatched to bring power to Europe from Caspian Sea 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…
News Chinese group to invest $1bn in Cambodian pumped storage 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…
News Germany to start first 525km of its €19bn hydrogen network this year 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…
News Businesses fear more blackouts as Zimbabwe struggles with Chinese loan 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…
News Lagos seeks companies to build 4GW-worth of power stations 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…
News Oracle to use three SMRs to meet ‘crazy’ electricity needs of AI datacentres 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…
News CSCEC, Siemens picked to restore Iraq’s 1.6GW gas power plant 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…
News US firm’s first gravity-power plant set to go live in China 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…
Projects RVA blows up French power station 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…
News Larsen & Toubro wins contracts in Saudi Arabia and India 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.…
News After two-year delay, Vietnam approves $135bn power plan 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,…
News Turner & Townsend wins role on Germany’s SuedOstLink scheme to power the south 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…
News Canadian First Nation group sues Quebec power company for $1.6bn 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…
News Equinor, RWE to build hydrogen power stations for Germany 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…
News Almost no CO2: US firm to build world’s first carbon captured gas power plant 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…