#Germany

Germany: TenneT is inviting tenders for sea and land stations for the first three German 2GW grid connections in the North Sea off Lower Saxony.

Germany: Naturstrom AG has announced completion its first hybrid project combining a 7.5-MWp solar plant and a storage facility in the state of Thuringia.

Germany: TenneT has awarded the contract for the converter stations at sea and on land to McDermott and GEIRI/C-EPRI consortium.

Germany, Munich: The Siemens Energy Supervisory Board appointed Karim Amin as Member of the Executive Board, effective 1 March 2022.

Germany, Munich: Siemens Energy presented on 25 January its Sustainability Report for fiscal year 2021.

Germany, Frankfurt: European power transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT might bring in private co-owners at some point to support huge investments.

Germany, Frankfurt: The operator TenneT is modernizing the power supply.

Germany, Wasseralfingen: The financing plan for the start-up has been successfully fixed with the Kreissparkasse Ostalb.

Germany, Kork: On behalf of transmission system operator TransnetBW, SPIE will install the Kork transformer station near Kehl in Baden-Württemberg.

Germany, Berlin: Siemens Energy is investing over €60 million in a new production facility in Berlin.

Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate: Westnetz GmbH has expanded the Bekond substation with an SF6 -free 24 kV switchgear panel.

Germany: There has been a change at the top of the German CIGRE Committee.

Germany, Munich: Siemens Energy and Voith have agreed that Voith will take over Siemens Energy’s 35 % stake in the joint venture Voith Hydro.

Germany, Dresden: A main power transformer at Dresden Station in Morris caught fire early on 16 October, but operators at the station quickly extinguished it.

Africa: The African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) will receive a cash injection of $134.5 M from the German government.

Germany, Pulverdingen: The Siemens Energy transformer was made ready by Siemens Energy and Flux Transformer Services in Pulverdingen Substation.

Germany, Regensburg: The European Composite Pylon is a project that aims to realize, test, and validate 3 full-scale 2 x 400 kV Composite Power Pylons.

Germany, Itzehoe: Schleswig-Holstein Netz AG (SH Netz) is investing around €750,000 in a new, high-performance transformer in the Itzehoe-Mitte substation.

UK, Dover: Megger Group and IPS Group have jointly announced that they have reached a definitive agreement to work together as strategic partners.

Germany: Four TenneT’s phase-shifting transformers consisting of eight transformer boilers expand the Würgau system into a Bavarian green electricity distributor.

South Africa, Hamburg: EDF Renewables says their 34.5 MW Wesley-Ciskei Wind Farm near Hamburg in the Eastern Cape has reached commercial operations.

Germany, Munich: The power grids of the future will face a wide range of challenges that require a rapid expansion of the infrastructure.

Germany, Regensburg: MR presents its MSENSE® DGA 2/3 online analysis device.

The Netherlands, Amsterdam: Arcadis announced on 12 August that it was awarded a contract by TenneT for power grid expansion.