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Enel, through its renewable subsidiary Enel Green Power Mexico ("EGPM"), inaugurated the 238 MW Don José photovoltaic solar plant located in San Luis de la Paz, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. The milestone was celebrated with an opening ceremony attended by the Governor of the State of Guanajuato, Miguel Márquez Márquez; the Managing Director for State-Owned Enterprises at Mexico’s Secretariat of Energy, Víctor Hugo Luque Salcedo; the Ambassador of Italy in Mexico, Luigi Maccotta; the Municipal President of San Luis de la Paz, Guillermo Rodriguez Contreras, as well as different public authorities at the federal, state and municipal levels.

Enel S.p.A. (“Enel”), acting through its advanced energy services unit Enel X and RusEnergoSbyt[1], the energy supplier and joint venture between Enel and ESN, signed today a Partnership Agreement with Joint Stock Company Russian Railways (“RZhD”), whereby the two players will team up mainly for the development of innovative energy storage systems to be installed across the Country’s railway network. This is the first time this type of battery technology is used in the railway sector.

NEC has said the spectral efficiency across the FASTER subsea cable system can be upgraded to 6 bits per second per hertz for a capacity of more than 26 terabits per second (Tbps) -- over two and a half times the capacity originally planned at no additional wet plant capex.

China's leading wire and cable enterprise ZTT Group will open a new plant in Morroco's northern city of Tangier, local media reported on Wednesday.

Ernesto Ciorra, Enel Group’s Head of Innovation and Sustainability (Innovability), and Craig Jones, Executive Chairman of InnoCentive, a leading open innovation and crowdsourcing company, signed an agreement with the main objective of supporting the achievement of Enel’s targets set for four of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): SDG 4 (quality education), SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy), SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth) and SDG 13 (climate action).

The laying of the cable supplying the Johan Sverdrup offshore development in Norway with power from shore started last week. The cable, being deployed by NKT Victoria, will help make the North Sea giant one of the oil and gas fields with the lowest CO2 emissions worldwide.

Japanese electric and electronics firm Furukawa Electric Co. has opened its first fibre optic cable production plant in MENA (Middle East North Africa) in Morocco's Tangier Automotive City. The company spent over US$22 million (approximately 200 million dirhams) on the new plant which it says will be run by its US subsidiary Optical Fibre Solutions. The plant covers a surface area of 31,000...

Leoni, a global provider of energy and data management solutions in the automotive sector and other industries, looks back contently on 2017. Due above all to the increasing momentum of demand, the Company’s sales rose by more than 11 percent to a new high of EUR 4.9 billion (previous year: EUR 4.4 billion), with organic growth coming to about 10 percent. Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) were up strongly from EUR 79 to 225 million, with the EBIT margin widening accordingly from 1.8 to 4.6 percent.

Investment has gone up worldwide – in infrastructure, the automotive sector, the electrical industry, regenerative energy projects and in oil and gas pipelines. And the upstream supplies industries wire, cable and pipes have substantially benefited from this development at the international No.1 trade fairs wire and Tube in Düsseldorf from 16 to 20 April 2018. Across Germany steel and metal processing counts among the ten mayor sectors of industry. These sectors are strongly characterised by SMEs, by traditional growth and innovation. But even major groups of companies are now re-aligning their operations, following digital optimisation processes and reorganising their distribution channels, both nationally and internationally.

German cable and cable harness manufacturer Leoni has completed and inaugurated its third Serbian plant in Nis. Harnesses for one of the world's premium carmakers are being manufactured on a production space of 20 000m2.