April 10, 2020
As of the end of 2019, Saudi Arabia’s transmission network comprised about 90,224 circuit km of line length at voltages of 110 kV to 380 kV.
March 12, 2020
As of December 2018, Germany’s transmission network comprised about 36,731 circuit km of line length at 110 kV and above voltage levels.
March 12, 2020
As of December 2019, Germany’s total power installed capacity stood at over 212 GW, of which 58 per cent was renewable energy (RE)-based, 34 per cent was thermal energy-based, and 4 per cent each was based on hydro and nuclear energy.
March 12, 2020
During 2020-35, over 140 GW of capacity additions are planned across the country as per the Scenario B 2035 in the Germany’s Electricity Network Development Plan 2030, Version 2019.
February 14, 2020
Global Transmission Research recently tracked and analysed 6,954 high voltage substation projects (at voltage levels of 100 kV and above) in 100 countries across six regions – North America, Latin America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
February 14, 2020
Despite the slowdown in economic growth in various countries, the investment environment in the electricity transmission sector across all continents has remained more or less positive.
January 10, 2020
As of March 2018, India’s total transmission line length network stood at around 570,902 circuit km, with 1,142,731 MVA of transformer capacity.
January 10, 2020
In order to assess the operational performance of the power transmission networks of the top five STUs, trends in network availability and transmission losses for the 2013-18 period were used.
January 10, 2020
The total revenue and net profit were highest for MSETCL at INR39 billion and INR5 billion respectively, followed by GETCO with a revenue of INR37 billion and a net profit of INR3.7 billion.
December 10, 2019
The Sistema de Interconexión Eléctrica de los Países de América Central or the Central American Electrical Interconnection System (SIEPAC) is a regional interconnected grid linking the power grids of six Central American nations—Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
December 10, 2019
During 2018, peak demand in the Central American region reached 8,509 MW. Since 2013, peak demand has grown at a CAGR of about 2.4 per cent.
December 10, 2019
The SIEPAC countries, excluding Honduras, have witnessed a significant expansion in the transmission line network, which stood at about 15,703 km in 2018 at voltage levels of 69 kV and above.
November 11, 2019
The combined installed generation capacity of the seven South Asian countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka – in 2018, stood at over 402 GW.
November 11, 2019
The South Asian countries have witnessed a significant expansion in their transmission line length network, which stood at about 534,810 km in 2018 at a voltage level of 100 kV and above.
November 11, 2019
During the next five years, about 197 GW of addition to the installed generation base has been estimated to meet the growing electricity demand in South Asia.
October 9, 2019
The Western Balkan countries have faced significant energy challenges in the past and some of the member countries are still struggling to meet their electricity demand.
October 9, 2019
The WB6 member countries have proposed several interconnections to strengthen regional links as well as connect their grids with the rest of Europe.
September 9, 2019
As of 2018, the United States of America (USA) had an installed capacity of 1,243 GW, of which 43.7 per cent was based on natural gas, 23.4 per cent was coal-based, 12.35 per cent was renewable energy-based, 8.64 per cent was nuclear-based, 8 per cent was hydro-based, and the rest was based on other sources of energy.