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The company has three manufacturing facilities producing extra and high voltage, medium voltage, and low voltage power cables and employs approximately 1,200 people. The company has also recently completed a major investment program to enhance its industrial capability. Shandong Yanggu is fully qualified by the State Grid Corporation of China (“SGCC”) to produce 110kV and 220KV cables. The company supplies energy infrastructure cables to SGCC, power generation groups and various other industries.

In the future, utility customers will have real alternatives to grid power available to them. Energy efficiency and distributed generation are rapidly taking their place alongside traditional energy sources. Add in electric vehicles, and future customers may present a far different (and at times negative) load profile to the utility serving them. Already delivery systems with high concentrations of solar are experiencing adverse operational impacts today.

Sub-Saharan Africa's electricity metering market will see the fastest growth of any region in the world over the next decade.

Renault-Nissan chief executive Carlos Ghosn admitted last year that sales were at least four years behind targets, which he blamed on the slow rollout of support infrastructure.

An ambitious research project which will be funded by the European Commission, BEST PATHS, will focus on the development of high-capacity transmission networks needed to meet Europe’s long-term energy goals and incorporation of renewable energy sources.

Nexans (NEX.PA), a French company that makes electrical wiring and cables, says that the switch from copper to aluminum is inevitable. Its corporate purchasing director, Christophe Allain, told the CRU Group’s World Copper Conference in April that “the switch will come; the big question is when and what size it will be.” As Nexans told the Financial Times, one reason is that aluminum cables currently cost about 40% less than copper ones – even though more insulation is required for aluminum cabling. For countries in the developing world that are still building out a power grid, that price difference is a huge deal.

Innovation is at the heart of Alstom Grid, with 4 per cent of sales invested in Research & Development, each year. Alstom’s experts collaborate closely with international standardisation organisations and work hand in hand with leading universities.

In the future, investments in power transmission infrastructure will reduce while that on ESS and distributed power generation such as microgrids will grow by leaps and bounds.

Just last week, a report by Swiss bank UBS showed how the linked development of energy storage, solar power and electric vehicles is changing the economics of power generation. UBS predicts that by 2020, a return on investment for an unsubsidized purchase of an electric vehicle, coupled with a rooftop solar installation and battery storage, will drop to just six years in much of Europe. Smart distribution networks would precisely manage the usage and allocation of electricity, allowing for an electric car to be charged at night, for the sun to power a house during daylight hours and for improved batteries to store power for other residential uses. While such news might not be met with cheers in the offices of national grid operators, it shows just how the quest for "The Holy Grail of Energy Storage" is doomed to fail. 

The report, “Smart Cities”, examines the evolution of the global smart city market, detailing the impacts on key technology markets, including smart grids, water management, transportation, building energy efficiency, and government services. 

Using the Siemens technology installed on the platforms, the alternating current power generated by the wind turbines is transformed into direct current for efficient transmission to the mainland. At the associated land-based stations, the electricity generated by the connected wind farms is converted back into the alternating current power required for feeding into the transmission grid.

The world’s longest superconductive cable and the first to have been integrated into an urban electricity grid has celebrated six months of flawless operation, fuelling hopes of the energy industry for future lossless energy transport.