Features

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  • Summer has become a recurring stress test for Britain’s grid

    Summer has become a recurring stress test for Britain’s grid

    Summer operating conditions are becoming harder for Britain’s electricity system. Record solar output, heat driven demand, and sharper evening ramps are expanding the range NESO must manage each day.

  • Thermal imaging improves photovoltaic maintenance decisions

    Thermal imaging improves photovoltaic maintenance decisions

    Flir’s Chinese field case applies thermal imaging across photovoltaic maintenance. The feature examines defect detection, inspection safety, and the limits of supplier-reported results.

  • IN Power Issue 3 examines electrification’s delivery gap

    IN Power Issue 3 examines electrification’s delivery gap

    IN Power Issue 3 examines electrification beyond headline generation figures. The complete summer magazine is free to read, covering microgrids, grid resilience, conductor materials, and industrial power quality.

  • Grounded: Q2 2026

    Grounded: Q2 2026

    Q2 advanced Britain’s connections, storage, standards, and transmission programmes further. Renewable growth continued, while fuel-price volatility and inverter controls kept system resilience central to energy engineering.

  • Why Britain buries cables — but still builds pylons

    Why Britain buries cables — but still builds pylons

    Britain already buries cables, but not across every voltage level. As transmission projects advance, the pylon debate now turns on cost, capacity, landscape impact, repairability, soil disruption, and how communities share the burden of national infrastructure.

  • Data centres urged to protect themselves from growing voltage instability threat

    Data centres urged to protect themselves from growing voltage instability threat

    Data centres face growing risk from voltage instability and surges. Dr Vincent Thornley, managing director of Fundamentals at EA Technology, argues that operators should consider in-house voltage control as grid infrastructure struggles to adapt to more dynamic generation and demand.

  • Power takes centre stage at Hannover Messe

    Power takes centre stage at Hannover Messe

    Power took centre stage at Hannover Messe for good reason. As industrial AI, EV charging, electrified production, hydrogen systems, and digital factories increase demand on electrical infrastructure, the event pointed to a more complex transition built around controllability, protection, storage, and grid edge resilience.

  • Vestas Bulgaria order revives onshore wind pipeline

    Vestas Bulgaria order revives onshore wind pipeline

    Vestas has secured a 70MW Bulgarian wind turbine supply order. The Strazhitsa project adds 11 EnVentus machines and a long-term service package, giving fresh momentum to onshore wind investment in Bulgaria.

  • Hitachi Energy and Samsung widen AC grid alliance

    Hitachi Energy and Samsung widen AC grid alliance

    Hitachi Energy and Samsung C&T have widened their grid pact. The agreement points to the growing weight of AC transmission, substations, and digital grid control as networks absorb more renewable power.

  • Nordseecluster substations move German offshore build forward

    Nordseecluster substations move German offshore build forward

    RWE has installed two offshore substations for Nordseecluster A project. The milestone moves the German North Sea scheme deeper into delivery, with cable work under way and turbine installation due this summer.