Features
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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National Gas’s summer outlook highlights gas system resilience and interdependence. Lower gas-for-power demand does not remove the network’s role in supporting maintenance, storage cycling, exports, and rapid power-sector response.
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NESO’s summer outlook puts low-demand system balancing in sharper focus. Record spring solar, new demand flexibility tools, and long-range network constraints are converging as Britain adapts to heavier midday surpluses.
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March pushed Europe’s power transition into the business of delivery. Grid access, procurement, building standards, flexibility markets, and contractor competence all moved closer to the centre of the energy conversation.