Two Norwegian councils have joined forces with local energy companies to develop a power plant containing up to 1.5GW of small modular reactors (SMRs), equivalent to 10% of the country’s…

French tunneller Bessac is using Japanese pump technology to dewater the land-based sections of a 2GW, high-voltage power line that will cross the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain.…

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…

Dutch grid operator Liander has warned that 317 of its construction projects are at risk because the government has delayed a decision on how to combat nitrogen pollution, the NL…

Maharashtra-based JSW Energy has started building a 1.6GW coal power plant and industrial park in the Indian state of West Bengal, in part to capitalise on the global economic chaos…

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…

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.…