#UK

National Grid’s Viking Link has started construction on its UK converter station at Bicker Fen in Lincolnshire with Siemens Energy.

UK, Leads: Heavy lifting services company, Collet & Sons Ltd, transported three transfomers for company Winder Power Group

Centrica’s Cornwall Local Energy Market (LEM) flexibility trial has completed, involving over 200 homes and businesses trading stored renewable electricity.

UK: Utility installs S&C’s TripSaver® II Cutout-Mounted Recloser at 10 sites throughout its service territory.

ReneSola Ltd and Novergy announced they have entered into a strategic partnership to co-develop utility-scale projects in the UK.

UK, Newcastle: Siemens Energy is to install innovative grid stabilisation technology equipped with a Sensformer® unit.

AfDB and EnergyNet, organisers of the AEF, have created the ‘African Utility of Future’ competition enabling teams to compete for a $5,000 prize.

Hitachi ABB Power Grids is contributing to National Grid’s interconnector, IFA2, the second direct current electrical interconnector between Britain and France.

Wilson Power Solutions are now able to service UK network competitive connection projects utilising SSE, UKPN and SPEN approved transformers.

UK, Bedfordshire, Sandy: UK-based transformer manufacturer announced to expand its Sandy, Bedfordshire factory

The last the Moray East substations left the fabrication yard and sailed away to its offshore location in the UK North Sea over the weekend.

An electricity transformer, the size of a large motorhome, will be delivered by barge and beach to a National Grid substation at Trawsfynydd next month.

UK: ABB has delivered and installed three shunt reactors in the onshore substation of the Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm in the UK.

National Grid agreed contracts with 5 parties worth £328 M over a six-year period for services to manage the stability of its electricity system in Britain.

The $22 M (£17 M) facility has been delivering power to homes and businesses in St. Helier since late 2018, and its exterior has recently been completed.

UK: Siemens has launched a new undergraduate sponsorship programme to discover, inspire and nurture the next generation of engineering and tech talent.

Strukton is putting a new substation concept to the test in the Netherlands as part of a pilot project for a programme involving more than 100 upgrades over the next 10 years.

The National HVDC Centre in the UK has tested two devices that monitor and detect faults in DC multi-terminal grids and aims for a public demonstration next year.

The government has announced an inquiry into the power cut on Friday that left people stuck in trains for up to nine hours and almost a million people in England and Wales without electricity.

UK: National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) has unveiled plans to spend $9.3 B (£7.4 B) to establish the future electricity transmission system.

UK: Scottish Power said it would invest $1.7 B (£1.4 B) into transmission networks in southern Scotland between 2021 and 2026.

MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has contracted ABB to supply transformers for the turbines at the 950 MW Moray East offshore wind farm off the coast of Scotland.

UK: National Grid has given Balfour Beatty a $63 M (£50 M) contract to replace a high-voltage substation at Littlebrook Power Station in Kent.

UK: R V Ahilan has been officially appointed to the role of Chief Executive Officer of the LOC group.