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Enel Green Power North America, Inc. (“EGPNA”), the US renewable energy company of the Enel Group, has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Wynn Las Vegas whereby the resort, located on the world-famous Las Vegas Strip, will buy the energy produced by EGPNA’s new 27 MW Wynn Solar Facility at Stillwater. The new solar project, currently under construction in Nevada, is expected to start production by the first half of 2018.

On December 8, 2017 the new type of Dongying Xihe Fishing and Light Complementary 100MW Solar Power Plant invested by Hengtong Optic-Electric was grandly opened in Shandong, China.

“We may need another one of these things,” he told about 75 people participating in the ceremony Friday morning. Kinlin is executive vice president of Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW) and is based in Hickory.

Energy security is an increasingly hot topic in Malta. Imported electricity prices increased last year and Valetta had to rely more and more on the sole undersea cable that links it to the European grid via Sicily.

Back in late 2015, nine months before South Australia blacked out after an extreme storm event, Tasmania entered an energy crisis of its own. The single undersea high-voltage electricity cable linking the island state with the mainland failed about a 100 km off the Tasmanian coast. Engineers took six months to find and fix the fault.

Leading wire and cable industry association the IWMA has welcomed Lanfang Xinming Cable Machinery Co Ltd as a new member.

Plans for a colossal 480MW solar project in Japan have received a boost with the original three developers announcing another five participants.

According to industry sources on January 8, LS Cable & System (LS C&S) in a slump for a long time in recent years made an impressive turnaround with sales of an estimated 3.5 trillion won or US$3.15 billion (on a consolidated basis), last year. The company is painting a rosy picture that if this trend holds, its sales will exceed 4 trillion won (US$3.6 billion) this year and the company will be able to achieve "its second take-off."

By 2040, renewable energy sources will account for almost three quarters of the $10.2 trillion global investment in new power generating technology[1]. To accelerate its growth in this highly promising segment, Nexans has acquired a controlling interest in BE CableCon, the Denmark-based manufacturer and supplier of cable kits for some of Europe’s leading wind turbine companies. The acquisition is an illustration of the recently-announced “Paced for Growth” strategy aimed at developing Nexans’ business beyond manufacturing cables to provide customers with complete, fully-integrated cable services.

Preparations are already in full swing. For us, it is the largest and most important trade fair in the cable market. We will be exhibiting in Düsseldorf with a 357 m² stand and a large team of Rosendahl Nextrom. We have changed the concept of our stand, too, which now offers lots of nice surprises.