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 (02/09/2024-02/15/2024), based on materials from foreign media and official websites of network/system operators.

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Review Topics:

- Swedish Svenska kraftnät uses UAVs and AI to monitor technical electrical networks

- The British NGESO announced the start of work this summer as a “system operator of the future”

- German TenneT launched a pilot project to use household power systems and electric vehicles to eliminate network congestion

- German power plants may participate in the Belgian auction for the selection of power suppliers scheduled for September this year

- In Turkey, the share of generation facilities based on renewable energy sources among new generating capacities was 99.5%

- The European Commission approved the system operator of Spain as the owner of a pumped storage power plant in the Canary Islands

- Spanish Solaria received approval for the construction project of a 595 MW solar power plant

- Indian BHEL will build a 2.4 GW coal-fired power plant in the state of Odisha

- HVDC interconnection in the Philippines reaches full capacity

- The New York State System Operator does not see the need to expand the free flow of power zones in the New York power grid

- Texas System Operator Sees Increase in Electricity Consumption

- In California, an energy complex was put into operation consisting of a solar power plant with a capacity of 875 MW and a solar power system with a capacity of 1,300 MW and an energy intensity of 3,287 MWh

- The American FERC rejected MISO’s proposal to introduce restrictions on the annual total volume of connected capacity of generation facilities

- Energy holding TVA may postpone the planned closure of a 2.47 GW coal-fired power plant in the US state of Tennessee due to inaction by FERC

- American PJM analyzed the functioning of the power system during the passage of winter storm Jerry in January of this year

- Stormy weather in the Australian state of Victoria led to power outages