Atmos has closed financing for two major Australian power projects. The package moves a 1.6GWh Queensland battery and 470MW Western Australian wind farm towards construction and operation.
HD Hyundai will build Taean’s 500MW offshore wind substation system. The EPCIC contract covers engineering, procurement, fabrication, offshore installation and commissioning for the South Korean project.
Kentucky Power plans major transmission works for Muskie’s data campus. A new 765kV substation and parallel 345kV circuits will support up to 1GW of contracted electrical service.
Project Marinus has entered its main construction phase across Australia. Transmission works are advancing in Tasmania while HVDC cable and converter-station activity ramps up for the Bass Strait interconnector.
Doble and Megger have completed their electrical asset management merger. The combined ESCO Technologies business brings together portable testing, substation diagnostics, continuous monitoring, software and engineering services.
Vattenfall has completed all fourteen Clashindarroch II wind turbine foundations. The 63MW Aberdeenshire project used lower-carbon concrete and recycled reinforcing steel during an 11-week foundation programme.
CIP has approved a major 350MW Scottish battery investment programme. The four-hour Kilmarnock South system will store 1.4GWh and is scheduled for commercial operation in early 2028.
Ofgem proposes new delivery conditions for SP Energy Networks funding. The licence change would tie electricity system restoration allowances to defined outputs under the RIIO-ED2 price control.
Ofgem has approved higher voltage limits across Britain’s 275kV network. The change restores a 10% upper operational tolerance to reduce transmission outage restrictions during reinforcement and maintenance work.
Great British Energy has widened its £300m manufacturing support fund. Seventeen additional offshore wind and network components are now eligible for capital grants supporting UK production capacity.