Google and Brookfield Asset Management have announced a 20-year framework agreement for up to 3GW of hydropower to provide electricity to its datacentres. Initially, the US tech company will buy…

As tech companies invest heavily in big data centres to meet demand for cloud computing and AI, people in Tokyo’s greater metropolitan area are mounting opposition over concerns about about…

Luxembourg-based steel-maker ArcelorMittal has decided not to go ahead with plans to install electric arc furnaces at two of its German mills, citing concerns about the cost of electricity. The…

Oslo-headquartered lighting firm Glamox is lighting up a giant offshore platform that will convert electricity from a 900MW wind-power scheme in the North Sea some 100km off the German coast.…

Spain’s Acciona has won a €250m design, financing, construction, operation and 30-year maintenance contract for a 330km-long 220kV power line in southern Peru. The company will build two new substations…

A conference held in Tanzania last week to progress the electrification of Africa has resulted in a pledge to spend more than $50bn on expanding the continent’s grids and generating…

Global electricity demand in the coming years is set to grow faster than it has in two decades, adding the equivalent of Japanese demand to total demand every year, the…

An eight-storey, 45,000-sq-m hospital building has been completed at Canberra Hospital, the first in Australia to run fully on electrical power. Built by Australian developer Multiplex, the Critical Services Building…

Angolan engineer ProMarks and Swiss commodity trader Trafigura yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Government of Angola to develop a southern African power transmission network. The aim is…

Cimic subsidiary UGL has won a five-year, A$125m contract to upgrade Western Power’s electricity distribution and transmission network in the southwestern part of Western Australia. It will provide overhead maintenance…

The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has allocated $412m to help Sierra Leone build its first big power station. The sum comprises a loan of $292m for an 83MW…

China and Brazil last week signed a 30-year franchise agreement for a new, 1,468km high-voltage transmission line to bring renewable power from Brazil’s remote northeast to the more populated centre…

Iberdrola, the Spanish utility specialising in renewables, has announced plans to invest €41bn over the next three years, with the lion’s share to go on modernising and extending power grids…

The company that manages China’s electricity grid says it will invest more than $70bn in its network this year to improve long-distance transmission and accommodate more intermittent renewable generators. State…

Senegal’s electricity authority Senelec has awarded a €200m contract to France’s Vinci Energies to install 1,350km of high-voltage and very-high-voltage overhead and underground transmission lines. The project part-financed by France…

Swiss manufacturer ABB has teamed up with a UK startup developing a system for generating electricity in old mine shafts. Called GraviStore, the system drops heavy weights attached to cables…

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…

Vinci subsidiary Cobra IS has won three contracts worth a total of €720m to build 1,948km of high-voltage transmission lines in Brazil. Cobra has also signed two EPC contracts worth €550m…