[UK grid to spend £20.9bn to achieve net zero emissions]The UK power network operator will have a £20.9bn budget to expand the grid to connect millions of electric vehicles, smart systems and small renewable energy projects over the next five years. The budget will be used for service, maintenance, upgrades and repairs by six UK distribution network companies from April 2023, and has been approved by regulator Ofgem. The plan, which includes tree-cutting, flood protection and other energy security measures, aims to improve the resilience of the UK's 800,000km of overhead and underground transmission lines to deal with more severe weather events in the future. Editor/Xing Wentao
By the end of 2025, Russian energy giant Novatek will order 20 GT-25000 gas turbines from China, with a total contract value exceeding 10 billion yuan. The localization rate of this type of gas turbine has reached 100%, breaking the market monopoly of Europe and America that lasted for more than 80 years.Editor/Gao Xue
On February 24, 2026, China Tianying Co., Ltd. announced that its controlling subsidiary, Hanoi Tianyu Environmental Protection Energy Co., Ltd., has been approved to invest in the expansion of the second phase of the Shuoshan Waste to Energy Plant in Hanoi, Vietnam. The total investment of the project is 220 million US dollars, which will add a daily processing capacity of 1600 tons and a power generation capacity of 45MW. After the expansion is completed, the total processing capacity of the power plant will reach 5600 tons/day.Editor/Gao Xue