News California’s $12.6bn plan to become first US ‘hydrogen hub’ The US is planning to invest as much as $12.6bn in a programme of works that will turn the state of California into a hydrogen hub. The project will receive…
News Helsinki’s first green hydrogen plant to fuel trucks and heat homes Finnish energy company Helen has picked Sweco as engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) partner to build Helsinki’s first green hydrogen plant, called the 3H2 Helsinki Hydrogen Hub. Helen aims…
News Uzbekistan to start work on SMR-based power plant in September Uzbekistan will start work in September on a nuclear plant for six small modular reactors (SMRs), local media report. UzAtom, the country’s nuclear energy agency, signed a protocol with Russian…
News Chinese energy engineer pulls out of Russia Chinese energy engineering firm Wison New Energies will discontinue all ongoing Russian projects and will “stop taking any new Russian business”, the company said in a LinkedIn post on Friday.…
News Team picked to build substations on Belgium’s €2bn energy island 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…
News SOM designs building prototypes that integrate energy generation and storage 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.…
News Dutch firm to build 75MW waste-to-energy plant in Lagos 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…
News China starts $3.9bn project to bring green power from remote northwest 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…
News Chinese firm to build $2.4bn green hydrogen plant in Vietnam 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…
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…
News Ontario to spend $1.5bn refurbishing Canada’s third-biggest nuclear plant 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…
News Chinese, Spanish companies to build $3.3bn Saudi gas refinery 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,…
News Vinci, Acciona sign €6.15bn power transmission PPP for New South Wales 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…
News UGL and CPB land role on New South Wales’ HumeLink 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…
News Danish government mulls using platforms for its “energy island” 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…
News Northvolt completes work on Europe’s largest energy storage factory 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,…
News World Bank donates $200m to help fix Ukraine’s energy infrastructure 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…
Projects Arcadis designs solar microgrid for remote northern Queensland 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…