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…

UGL, a subsidiary of Australian contractor Cimic, has won a five-year contract with a US$50m ceiling to provide power-line maintenance and construction services in the Australian state of Victoria. The…

Car-maker Honda is planning to team up with Mitsubishi Corporation to begin an electricity supply and storage business using the batteries of EVs. The two companies announced today that they…

Hitachi Energy and Vinci have won contract to connect the French and Spanish electricity grids with two high-voltage direct current (HVDC) links across the Bay of Biscay. Combined, the links…

Dutch grid operator TenneT has picked Dura Vermeer, BAM Infra Nederland, and Visser & Smit Bouw to carry out civil engineering works for the construction of converter stations to channel electricity from offshore wind farms onto the Netherlands’ national grid.