GE unit to join foreign bid for huge Japan power grid

TOKYO -- U.S. energy equipment manufacturer GE Vernova plans to participate in a foreign consortium bidding on building a power grid in Japan's north, Nikkei has learned.

The public tender is to construct and operate high-voltage interconnection lines linking the northernmost main island of Hokkaido and the main island of Honshu's Tohoku region with the high-demand Tokyo area. Both Hokkaido and Tohoku have an abundance of suitable locations for renewable energy generation.