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Power and water demands rise as Egypt’s $485 M digital expansion drives regional connectivity and sustainability goals through 2033.

Delta Star’s $35 M Lynchburg expansion will boost transformer output, create 300 jobs, and advance clean, reliable energy solutions for a growing global market.

The new transformer enhances energy reliability and meets rising demand across New York with advanced transformer tech from WEG.

The fund aims to support power demand from the continued growth and development of AI technologies.

First solution from partnership delivers comprehensive Energy Planning and Trading data, while advanced data analytics and generative AI drives faster, more complete view of energy information.

KONČAR – Digital is a KONČAR Group company, focused on green energy transition and digital transformation projects.

UAE, Dubai: The 48th edition of Middle East Energy Dubai will take place on 7–9 March, at Dubai World Trade Centre in UAE.

Rwanda, Kigali: The energy sector has gained a 30 MW substation, the New Gasogi Substation, worth over $23 M (Rwf 24 B).

USA, North Carolina, Raleigh: Hitachi Energy has announced plans to invest over $10 M in its distribution transformer facility in Jefferson City, Missouri.

UK: IMServ, one of the UK’s leading data collection and energy metering experts, has appointed Ian Peters as Chairman to help drive its next phase of growth.

Authorities say much needed energy won’t be able to reach the grid without major upgrades to networks in rural Victoria.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has pledged to provide $12 billion for renewable energy projects in an effort to mobilise funds to accelerate access to electricity in Africa.

USA, Georgia: Clean Line Energy and GE Energy Connections have announced their collaboration in the development of America’s largest clean energy infrastructure project, the Plains & Eastern Clean Line, which is the first overhead high voltage direct current (HVDC) project to be developed in the U.S. in more than 20 years.

Sweden, Lapland: Swedish renewable energy plant developer OX2 is building a wind farm in Swedish Lapland – the third largest in Sweden.

Turkmenistan, Ashgabat: A major energy project is being implemented in the Turkmen capital Ashgabat in order to improve the reliability of power supply in the capital city.

Germany, Künzelsau: The Künzelsau-based fan manufacturer Ziehl-Abegg is constructing a new building in the Hohenlohe Business Park in Baden-Württemberg for the manufacture of energy-efficient electric drives and fans.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “High and Extra High Voltage Transformers – The Most Critical U.S. Electrical Infrastructure Component-Risk and Impact of Solar Storms & Emp Attacks – U.S. Market, Installed Base and Suppliers: 2015-2020 Analysis and Forecasts” report to their offering.

USA, New Mexico: Under an interagency agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has awarded a design-build substation contract at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to Gardner Zemke Mechanical and Electrical Contractors of Albuquerque.

Russia, Khabarovsk Krai: RAO Energy System of East (part of RusHydro group) has started installation of electrical equipment in two new substations built as part of the electric power delivery system from the new power plant under construction in the city of Sovetskaya Gavan in the Khabarovsk Krai.

Ukraine: Ukrainian energy utility Ukrenergo has signed a contract with the national transformer manufacturer Zaporozhtransformator (ZTR) for the purchase of 22 units of power transformers and shunt reactors.

USA, New Mexico: A team led by Sandia National Laboratories, US Department of Energy research and development national laboratory, has developed a way to make a magnetic material that could lead to lighter and smaller, cheaper and better-performing high-frequency transformers.

ABB’s second-biggest shareholder, Swedish investment company Cevian, has hired Boston Consulting Group to study a potential break-up of the Swiss engineering group, turning up the pressure for a revamp of the company, reports Manager Magazin.

Russia: EuroSibEnergo, Russia’s largest privately-held power producer, announced a $200 million New Energy modernization program of its Siberian hydropower plants (HPPs) on the Angara and Yenisei rivers.

Bangladesh, Dhaka: A power transformer at Desh Energy power plant in Narayanganj, Bangladesh has been gutted in a fire on Friday morning.