53 h. ago Chinese power stocks surge on State Grid’s record US$574 billion investment plan

Shares of Chinese electricity and grid equipment makers surged after State Grid unveiled a 4 trillion yuan (US$574 billion) plan to upgrade the country’s power networks, as surging demand and the global race in artificial intelligence drive investment in energy infrastructure. Baoding Tianwei Baobian Electric, which makes transformers, climbed 4.6 per cent to 14.50 yuan in Shanghai and power equipment manufacturer Henan Pinggao Electric jumped 4.8 per cent to 20.83 yuan. Suzhou Electrical...

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2 d. ago China's power grid investments to surge to record $574 billion in 2026

China's power grid investments to surge to record $574 billion in 2026-2030  Reuters

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7 d. ago How the US raid in Venezuela has triggered Brazilian fury and a Chinese opening

Last weekend, following the US military operation in Venezuela abducting its leader, Nicolas Maduro, Brazil’s president denounced the attack as a “flagrant violation of international law” and having “crossed an unacceptable line”. “These acts represent a grave affront to Venezuela’s sovereignty and yet another extremely dangerous precedent for the entire international community,” Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wrote on social media. Lula, who said attacking countries was “the first step towards a...

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1 week ago Berlin mayor denounces attack on city’s power grid as ‘terrorism’

Mayor Kai Wegner has classified the major attack on Berlin’s power supply as terrorism: “This is not just arson or sabotage. This is already terrorism,” the conservative politician told the regional RBB television on Sunday evening. Wegner said that a left-wing extremist group attacked the infrastructure, endangering lives, including those of elderly people who might need ventilators and families with young children. “We must catch these perpetrators now,” he added. The Berlin police, the...

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1 week ago Berlin mayor denounces attack on German capital’s power grid as ‘terrorism’

Belin mayor Kai Wegner has classified the major attack on the German capital’s power supply as terrorism. “This is not just arson or sabotage. This is already terrorism,” the conservative politician told the regional RBB television on Sunday evening. Wegner said that a left-wing extremist group attacked the infrastructure, endangering lives, including those of elderly people who might need ventilators and families with young children. “We must catch these perpetrators now,” he added. The Berlin...

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2 w. ago Cable fire cuts power to tens of thousands of Berlin homes and businesses

Tens of thousands of homes in Berlin will be without electricity until Thursday as authorities struggle to repair power cables seriously damaged in a suspected arson attack, officials said. Some may also be without heating as the outage has affected local systems, at a time when the German capital is blanketed in snow and temperatures are hovering around freezing. Emergency services were alerted early Saturday that several high-voltage cables on a bridge near a power plant had gone up in...

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2 w. ago China to boost power grid investment to support new energy By Investing.com

China to boost power grid investment to support new energy By Investing.com  Investing.com

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2 w. ago China issues guidance to boost grid investment, absorb more new energy power

China issues guidance to boost grid investment, absorb more new energy power  Reuters

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2 w. ago How China cracked US ‘super code’, health benefits of lard: 7 science highlights

We have put together stories from our coverage on science from the past two weeks to help you stay informed. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. How China cracked US ‘super code’ that controls most power grids in the world China is no longer using American software to run its power grid. The Southern Regional Electricity Market (SREM) – the world’s largest unified power market – has switched fully to Tianquan, a solver developed by Chinese engineers...

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3 w. ago A year after near total blackout, China builds world’s largest smart transformer

Just over a year after an incident that nearly triggered a cascading failure across China’s national power grid, engineers have developed the most powerful smart direct current (DC) transformer on the planet – an innovation poised to neutralise renewable energy shocks to the system. The technology addresses an urgent need following a near total blackout in August last year, when low-frequency swings triggered by poorly integrated wind energy in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region threatened to...

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3 w. ago Russia ‘strikes Ukraine before Christmas’ with over 650 drones, dozens of missiles

Russia fired more than 650 drones and three dozen missiles at Ukraine in a large-scale attack that began during the night and stretched into daylight hours Tuesday, officials said. At least three people were killed, including a 4-year-old child. The barrage struck homes and the power grid in 13 regions of Ukraine, causing widespread outages in bitter temperatures, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, a day after he described recent progress on finding a peace deal “quite solid”. The...

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last month How China cracked the US ‘super code’ that controls most power grids in the world

China is no longer using American software to run its power grid. The Southern Regional Electricity Market (SREM) – the world’s largest unified power market – has switched fully to Tianquan, a solver developed by Chinese engineers with speeds 14 per cent faster than American products, according to a report by the official Science and Technology Daily. It follows recent reports that the State Grid, Huawei and many other leading Chinese companies have abandoned US solvers. If China no longer needs...

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