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The European Commission's (EC) Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) has signed a grant agreement worth EUR14.5 million for funding the final detailed studies for the 500 kV EuroAsia Interconnector Project being developed by EuroAsia Interconnector Limited (EIL), a subsidiary of Cyprus-based Quantum Energy Limited. The study project, worth EUR29 million, has been selected for funding under the second 2016 Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) energy call for proposals as it is listed in the European Union’s (EU) list of Projects of Common Interest (PCI).

A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Anatoly Sedykh, Chairman of the Management Board of United Metallurgical Company (OMK), took place in Moscow.

Leoni has reached another milestone on its way to realising the ‘Factory of the Future’: now that the contract covering the ‘An der Lände’ site has been successfully concluded with the City of Roth, the construction phase officially starts today. With this project, Leoni is making a clear commitment to this location in Germany – and to safeguarding as well as creating modern jobs. This plant will in the future both underpin Leoni’s core business in the cable sector and lay the foundations for use of digital technologies and the strategic expansion of its solutions business.

The plan to build an offshore wind farm to provide energy for the South Fork has received approval by the state comptroller, with a listed price tag to ratepayers of more than $1.62 billion.

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LS Cable & System said Thursday it will buy a power plant located in North Carolina from LS Corporation's subsidiary Superior Essex with an investment of $24.6 million.

The automated processing of electrical and telecom wire and cables, sometimes called wire chopping for short, has been firmly entrenched as a recycling subsector in Western Europe, North America and Japan for several decades.

PJM Interconnection has revised its peak power demand growth forecast downwards for Virginia Peninsula. As per its latest forecast, peak load demand during the summer would grow at an annual rate of 4 per cent though 2027, to reach a total of 20,501 MW, about 8 per cent lesser than last year’s forecast.

Zimbabwe’s State Procurement Board (SPB) has shortlisted two technically-compliant bidders for the 400 kV Orange Groove–Triangle transmission line under the Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa (MoZiSa) interconnection project.

Russia will not only welcome Indian talent but will also help to have comfortable stay in their country, which will be a win-win for both the countries, Russian Minister of Trade and Industry Denis Manturov told ET amid proposed visa changes in the USA that might impact movement of professionals there in the future.