Review of SO UPS JSC events that have a significant impact on the functioning and development of global energy systems based on materials from foreign media, official websites of network/system operators
SO UPS JSC has prepared a weekly review of events that have a significant impact on the functioning and development of global energy systems (11/03/2023-11/09/2023), based on materials from foreign media and official websites of network/system operators.
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- System operators of Estonia and Latvia signed a memorandum on joint development of a project for the construction of the fourth cross-border electrical connection between Estonia and Latvia
- The Latvian system operator will conduct inspections of the technical condition of overhead lines using a mobile application
- The updated Energy Law came into force in the UK
- The British energy regulator has approved updated conditions for the provision of system consumption management services for the upcoming winter period
- Scottish offshore wind farm Seagreen with a capacity of 1.1 GW reached full capacity
- The offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust Zuid with a capacity of 1.5 GW was put into operation in the North Sea
- The first power unit with a capacity of 800 MW was put into operation at a coal-fired thermal power plant with a capacity of 4 GW under construction in the Indian state of Telangana
- Taiwanese state-owned company begins real-time monitoring of grid inertia
- Three US states signed the first agreement in the history of the country to coordinate the purchase of offshore wind generation capacity
- The Governor of California signed a bill aimed at accelerating the technological connection of energy facilities to the state’s power system
- The Texas Supreme Court accepted an industry regulator's challenge to a lower court's ruling overturning its orders issued during Winter Storm Uri.
- Developers of projects for the construction of offshore wind farms intend to terminate contracts for the supply of electricity concluded with utilities in the American states of Connecticut and Massachusetts
- The Brazilian system operator presented recommendations to ensure the possibility of importing electricity from Venezuela to the Brazilian state of Roraima