Digitalisation
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ABB will support Ferrari Hypersail’s renewable 800V DC power architecture. The self-sufficient marine microgrid combines generation, storage, and intelligent distribution while providing a demanding test environment for technologies relevant to industrial power systems.
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Europe has opened its next cross-border electricity infrastructure selection round. Transmission, storage, and smart-grid projects can now seek PCI or PMI status under the TEN-E framework.
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Korkia is expanding powered-land development for energy-hungry data centre projects. Projects in Finland, Sweden, the UK, and Chile will combine grid access with renewable generation and storage.
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FlexGen has commissioned a 160MW Texas battery in six weeks. Houston IV used preconfigured systems, laboratory testing, remote support, and coordinated field commissioning to compress delivery.
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Eight European TSOs are seeking technologies to unlock grid capacity. Their joint call targets congestion, monitoring, power-flow control, and uprating of existing transmission infrastructure.
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SolarEdge and Infineon extend 800VDC protection into solid-state circuit breakers. Their collaboration combines SolarEdge distribution design with Infineon silicon-carbide JFET technology to target microsecond-scale fault isolation between solid-state transformers and high-density AI computing loads.
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IREC has quantified flood exposure across Barcelona’s metropolitan electricity network. Its methodology estimates €3–4 million of expected annual damage while separating direct infrastructure losses from customer impacts and cascading failures across other critical systems.
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ABB and BCG argue hybrid AC/DC systems are moving mainstream. Their report puts 800VDC distribution among the immediate applications in AI data centres, while fragmented standards and shortages of DC-specific engineering skills remain barriers to wider deployment.
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Smart charging could cut Europe’s EV-related grid investment by €10.6bn. Siemens modelling across 64 urban centres still identifies €14.1bn of physical reinforcement by 2030 even with intelligent load management.
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PNNL grid analytics are moving from research into utility deployment. Licensed to Simple Thread as Aion Pulse, the software automates generator performance assessment using PMU and SCADA measurements.