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  • France / Critical Power / Distribution / Overhead Distribution Lines

    From Cyclone Recovery to Grid Resilience in Réunion

    Réunion Island sits in one of the world's most cyclone-prone regions. Every year, during the cyclone season from November to April, tropical storms and cyclones threaten critical infrastructure across the island. For a territory that relies entirely on its own electricity network and is not connected to a continental grid, maintaining a resilient power system is essential for supporting homes, hospitals, businesses, and public services.

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  • Sweden / Distribution / Energy Transition

    Omexom Secures Long-Term Contract for Southern Stockholm’s Distribution Grid 

    Nobody thinks about the power grid until it fails. Yet every commute, hospital ward, and home depends on a distribution network that has to work every hour of every day. In southern Stockholm, that responsibility now rests on Omexom's newly awarded contract, a long-term commitment spanning four years, extendable to as many as eight, with around 100 specialists keeping the grid running.

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  • Finland / Distribution

    Kivijärvi: A Project in Central Finland, Going Beyond Distribution Grid Performance and Pushing Local Expertise

    Electricity networks in Finland today are under more pressure than ever due to growing energy demand and the need to withstand storms, heavy snow, and other extreme weather conditions. In Central Finland, these challenges are especially evident, as falling trees regularly damage overhead power lines and disrupt local distribution grids.

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  • Norway / Energy Transition / Temporary Power Supply

    Omexom Powers Karpe World, Norway’s Largest Live Experience

    The story behind the invisible infrastructure that powered 35,000 visitors a day at Karpe World.

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  • Distribution / Overhead Distribution Lines / Underground distribution lines

    Europe’s Ageing Grids and MV/LV Infrastructure’s Role in the Energy Transition

    Europe’s push toward 45% renewable energy by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050 is ambitious, but beneath these goals lies a quieter, pressing problem: the infrastructure that carries clean energy is, in many places, simply too old.

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  • Sweden / Distribution / Energy Transition

    New Distribution Substation in Sävar Strengthens Umeå’s Energy Grid 

    Umeå is growing more rapidly than most cities in northern Sweden. But much of the region’s existing infrastructure was built for consumption patterns that no longer exist, leaving the grid under pressure.

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  • Battery Energy Storage / Distribution / France / Power

    Omexom Delivers Five Battery Storage Systems for ZE Energy’s Hybrid Solar Park

    Omexom Conversion & Storage has successfully installed and commissioned five battery energy storage systems (BESS), totaling 14.8 MW/2h, for ZE Energy at its 77 MW solar park in the municipality of Vert, located in the Landes region of southwestern France. 

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  • Finland / Energy Transition / Underground distribution lines

    Omexom in Finland to Deliver the Country’s First 400 kV Underground Power Cable to Helsinki

    In early 2024, Omexom in Finland was awarded a contract by Demirer Kablo for the site execution of Fingrid’s 400 kV underground main grid cable connection project, linking suburbs of Länsisalmi and Vanhakaupunki.

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  • Sweden / Environment / Underground distribution lines

    Omexom in Sweden reduces environmental impact in distribution project

    ‘Groundbreaking’ takes on a new meaning at an underground distribution site for Omexom in Sweden:  the business unit and its project partners have inherently redesigned the project to adopt a comprehensive environmental approach.

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  • Finland / Distribution

    Eitech and Omexom sign contract for major power distribution project in Finland

    Eitech in collaboration with Omexom has won the assignment to deliver and install the entire power distribution in an extensive infrastructure project in Finland. The large and complex project will begin in 2023 and will last for almost two years with completion scheduled by spring of 2025.

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  • Transmission / Distribution / Finland

    Omexom broadens its activities in Finland by welcoming TLT-Building and TLT-Connection

    VINCI Energies acquired two multi-technical companies providing global solutions for electrical and telecommunication network operators in October 2022, and is accelerating their integration with two rebrandings: TLT-Building and TLT-Connection activities in transmission and distribution join Omexom in Finland, while TLT-Connection telecommunication business becomes Axians.

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  • Norway / Distribution

    Replacement of 108 electric meters in Norway

    On January 1, 2019, the Norwegian authorities requested the installation of new automatic electricity meters in homes. Permissions have been granted to extend the timeframe for sites where the intervention is more complex than for individual households.

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