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At the Open Innovation Forum in Skolkovo, near Moscow, Enel launched its Innovation Hub in Russia.

Bell Canada is about to dig deep to connect about 20,000 homes in Sarnia and Point Edward with fibre-optic cables the company say will provide “world class” Internet and “rock solid” reliability.

Enel, through a joint venture between the Group’s fully-owned renewable energy subsidiary Enel Green Power S.p.A. (“EGP”) and Dutch Infrastructure Fund (“DIF”), has begun construction of the 137.7 MW1 Bungala Solar One photovoltaic (PV) plant, which is located near Port Augusta in South Australia. The plant constitutes the first part of the Bungala Solar PV Project, whose capacity will total more than 275 MW2.

Britain’s transmission system operator (TSO) National Grid has started construction of the 20-km-long, 400 kV Richborough–Canterbury overhead line (OHL).

Pakistan is working on a massive project with China as part of the $55-billion CPEC project to develop a communications system, which is not routed through India and the US, a media report said on Sunday.

OFS is pleased to introduce two new cable product families enabled by the company’s new fiber optic, rollable ribbon technology.

Enel S.p.A. (“Enel”), acting through its subsidiary Enel Brasil S.A. (“Enel Brasil”), has been awarded a 30-year concession for the 380 MW Volta Grande operating hydro power plant located in Southeastern Brazil following the “Leilão de Concessões não prorrogadas” public auction organised by the Brazilian federal government via the Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency – ANEEL.

Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP and its technology and deployment contractor, TE SubCom, announced that the undersea fiber-optic cable that makes up the Hawaiki transpacific cable system is in the last stages of being loaded aboard TE SubCom's cable-laying vessels. Hawaiki has been fully loaded onto the CS Global Sentinel, and loading onto the CS Responder is almost finished. Hawaiki Cable manufacturing at SubCom's facility in Newington, NH, including more than 14,000 km of undersea fiber-optic cable for Hawaiki and more than 170 completed repeaters, is complete according to TE SubCom.

The "Global High Voltage Power Cable Market - Forecasts from 2017 to 2022" report has been added to Research and Markets' offering.  The Global high voltage power cable market was valued at US$33.225 billion in 2016 and is projected to expand at a CAGR of 7.17% over the forecast period to reach US$50.345 billion by 2022.

After a few years of working to establish reliable internet connection on Tonawanda Island, Spectrum has received the go-ahead to bring its services to the area.  The North Tonawanda Common Council voted last week to authorize Mayor Arthur Pappas to sign contracts allowing the work to begin. The process, expected to start in the coming weeks, will begin with the installation of a cable line under the Frederick B. Durkee Bridge that connects the island to mainland North Tonawanda.