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Interconnectors

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3/12/2025 Feature / Bernadette Lee

Singapore taps subsea interconnectors for electricity imports

The insular city-state of Singapore is tapping the huge potential offered by subsea electricity connectors to access abundant renewable energy resources in its region. This wealthy country of six million people extends over just 735 km² of land and has an average GDP per head of $90,600. The country needs to import electricity and wants to diversify its energy supply while supporting regional decarbonisation, writes Bernadette Lee.

Energy storage

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3/8/2022 Feature / Erich Kisi

Powering ahead with storage – one thermal block at a time

There is considerable scope for new, long-duration thermal energy storage to help Australia’s electricity system accommodate larger quantities of new renewable generation. And this could be installed at existing coal-fired power stations, explains Erich Kisi, CEO of MGA Thermal.

Climate change

5/2/2025 News

North Sea oil and gas field developments delayed while third runway at Heathrow airport proposed: a week in the life of the UK energy transition

Two national-scale UK infrastructure developments made headlines last week for opposite reasons, at the same time as the country also filed one of the world’s first NDC climate change reports.

Renewables

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6/4/2022 Comment / Kenneth Engblom

Africa’s energy future at a crossroad

Africa can, and should, adopt renewable energy on a massive scale. But it also needs a more traditional power source to complement renewables, writes Kenneth Engblom, Vice President, Wärtsilä Energy, Europe and Africa.

Electricity

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29/3/2023 Feature / John Langley-Davis

‘CLASS’ voltage balancing – good news for DNOs, customers and net zero carbon

UK electricity networks need to change to cope with new generation, distribution and consumption patterns. Here, John Langley-Davis, Head of Technology at power systems technology manufacturer Fundamentals, argues that the adoption of new active voltage control technology is a smart move that can cut customers’ bills and deliver better quality and more reliable supply to users.

Electricity

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3/8/2022 Feature / John Langley-Davis

How artificial intelligence will make the electricity grid smarter

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep machine learning (ML) have the potential to make the electricity transmission and distribution grids more reliable and better able to cope with historic changes in the way power is generated and consumed – including the predicted mass uptake of electric vehicles (EV), explains John Langley-Davis, Head of Technology at Fundamentals.

Grid management

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15/5/2026 Feature / Melissa Stark,Linda Capuano,Jessica Gillispie,Christopher Pham,Mary Wolf

How hyperscalers are changing the electricity system

To better understand the impact to the electricity system of the gigawatt-scale loads that hyperscalers are introducing to electricity grids, Rice University, Texas, MBA students Jessica Gillispie, Christopher Pham and Mary Wolf, and professors Melissa Stark FEI and Linda Capuano researched the impact of hyperscale loads in three US regional transmission operators: ERCOT (Texas), PJM (mid-Atlantic) and SPP (Midwest).

Cooling

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19/7/2023 Feature / Karolin Schaps

How Europe’s cooling problem is heating up

As Europe experiences another sweltering summer, policymakers need to pay closer attention to the growing need for space cooling. Energy journalist Karolin Schaps investigates whether Europe can address its rising need for cooling down in a sustainable way without further straining the region’s electricity grids.

Solar

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10/5/2023 Feature / Saif Islam,Finn Bee

Joined up thinking – the benefits of sector coupling for Germany's energy transition

Energy is consumed in three sectors: transport, industry and to heat and cool buildings. Connecting these three sectors will be crucial for the energy transition and is termed ‘sector coupling’. Here Saif Islam, a Senior Consultant, and Finn Bee, Research Analyst, at EUPD Research, describe the key benefits of sector coupling for Germany’s energy transition.

Electricity

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5/2/2025 Feature / Will Dalrymple

Baltic states synchronise electricity grid with Europe

This week, the energy systems of the Baltic States will disconnect from Russia’s energy system and join the energy system of continental Europe. This project, the largest energy independence and regional security project in recent decades, is jointly being implemented by the Baltic power transmission system operators Augstsprieguma tīkls (AST) of Latvia, Litgrid of Lithuania and Elering of Estonia, writes New Energy World Senior Editor Will Dalrymple.

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Singapore taps subsea interconnectors for electricity imports

Powering ahead with storage – one thermal block at a time

North Sea oil and gas field developments delayed while third runway at Heathrow airport proposed: a week in the life of the UK energy transition

Africa’s energy future at a crossroad

‘CLASS’ voltage balancing – good news for DNOs, customers and net zero carbon

How artificial intelligence will make the electricity grid smarter

How hyperscalers are changing the electricity system

How Europe’s cooling problem is heating up

Joined up thinking – the benefits of sector coupling for Germany's energy transition

Baltic states synchronise electricity grid with Europe