July 21, 2022
China-based Dalian Rongke Power Company Limited has commissioned the first phase (comprising 100 MW/400 MWh) of an 800 MWh vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) energy storage system in Dalian City’s Shahekou District, which is in Liaoning Province in northeastern China.
July 20, 2022
Indian state-owned Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) has awarded a tender for 10 MW/20 MWh of a grid-connected battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Kerala, to Hero Future Energies (HEF)—a renewable energy project developer and independent power producer (IPP), as well as a subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Hero Group.
July 20, 2022
The New South Wales (NSW) transmission system operator (TSO), TransGrid, has completed the Powering Sydney’s Future Project, which will help secure electricity supply in the Sydney central business district (CBD) and surrounding areas.
July 19, 2022
Indian state-owned Uttar Pradesh (UP) Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) has cancelled contracts of four companies for delay in the completion of power transmission projects awarded to them.
July 19, 2022
Indonesia’s state-owned PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PT PLN) has planned to install two more circuits of 150 kV line that will transmit electrical power from Surabaya to Madura via Suramadu Bridge, to strengthen the Madura electricity network.
July 18, 2022
Construction works of the 500 kV Chakwal substation project has begun, after Pakistan’s National Transmission and Despatch Company Limited (NTDC) finished acquisition of the required land.
July 13, 2022
Reportedly, the Indian union ministry of power is on track of its target to install 27,000 circuit-km of inter-state transmission line systems and 28 substations by December 2024 under the PM Gati Shakti Programme with an investment of INR700 billion.
July 13, 2022
Vietnam’s Powergrid Project Management Board-Northern Power Corporation (EVN-NPC) has invited competitive bids for three 110 kV transmission projects.
July 13, 2022
Russia’s state-owned power transmission company, Rosseti FGC UES, has begun working on the replacement of core insulation at two 220 kV substations, Metallurgical and Terbuny of the Lipetsk power system.
July 12, 2022
Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (REC Limited), a public sector undertaking that finances and promotes power projects across India, has suggested the government sell its stake with Power Finance Corporation (PFC), an Indian financial institution under the ownership of Ministry of Power (MoP), to the country’s largest transmission network developer, Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (POWERGRID).
July 11, 2022
India’s nodal agency for awarding transmission projects through the tariff-based competitive bidding (TBCB) route—Rural Electrification Corporation Transmission Projects Company Limited (RECTPCL), has selected the country’s largest transmission network developer, Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (POWERGRID), as the successful bidder to establish an inter-state transmission system (ISTS) for Transmission System for Evacuation of Power from Neemuch SEZ (Special Economic Zone), on a build, own, operate, and transfer (BOOT) basis.
July 9, 2022
Indian state-owned utility, Punjab State Transmission Corporation Limited (PSTCL), has completed two key transmission projects with an investment of INR360 million.
July 8, 2022
Indian PFC Consulting Limited (PFCCL) has issued a request for proposals (RfP) for the appointment of a technical consultant for the survey of two transmission projects using modern survey techniques and preparation of a report.
July 7, 2022
The Board of India’s largest transmission network developer, Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (POWERGRID), has accorded approval for about INR48.6 billion worth of investment for three transmission projects.
July 7, 2022
Indian engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company, Kalpataru Power Transmission Limited (KPTL), has completed the acquisition of 15 per cent stake in Sweden-based EPC company Linjemontage i Grastrop AB for USD11.5 million.
July 6, 2022
Nepal's Rastriya Prasaran Grid Company Limited (RGPCL), a government-owned entity established in 2015 to develop the country’s transmission network to transmit and evacuate hydropower, has invited international competitive bids for the design, supply, installation and testing of 400 kV, 130-km, double-circuit (Quad Moose Conductor) transmission line on the Phukot (Kalikot)–Betan (Surkhet)–Dododhara (Kailali)–Karmadev (Kailali) route.
July 6, 2022
The state-owned power utility, Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), has energised the 132 kV Butwal–Lumbini transmission line to improve power supply and control power losses in the Bhairahawa area of Rupandehi district, Nepal.
July 5, 2022
India has withdrawn its BDT1.06 billion line of credit (LoC) for the construction of a river-crossing transmission line proposed to facilitate power transmission from the Rooppur nuclear power plant (RNPP) in Bangladesh, as the latter failed to comply with the funding conditions.
July 5, 2022
Chinese State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) has completed the ±800 kV Baihetan–Jiangsu Ultra-High-Voltage (UHV) Power Transmission Project.