#India

India, Greater Noida: Three children have been burned to death in a fire triggered by a transformer blast in Greater Noida, India.

The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has published, in its National Electricity Plan (NEP), a blueprint to develop the transmission systems in the country.

India: NTPC and Power Grid Corp. of India have agreed to set up the National Electricity Distribution Company, a pan-Indian power distribution firm in an joint venture.

The ester transformer fluids producer MIDEL has opened a manufacturing plant and state-of-the-art laboratory near Mumbai, India.

UT electricity department of Chandigarh, India, has decided to build and upgrade several substations and make adjustments regarding the transmission line.

India, Mumbai: Transrail Lighting Limited, an Indian power transmission and distribution company, has won substation and railway electrification orders worth $62 million, which are now in the execution stage.

India: Indicating significant growth in the power transmission sector, India’s Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has announced an estimated investment of $38 billion in power transmission by 2022.

India, Andhra Pradesh: Public power utilities of Andhra Pradesh (AP) are striving to bring down the transmission and distribution losses from the present 9.98 per cent to less than six per cent in the coming years.

India, Tamil Nadu: GE has set up a dedicated 765 kV manufacturing line at its high voltage transmission equipment manufacturing facility at Padappai in Chennai.

India, Tamil Nadu: Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Co. Ltd. (TANGEDCO) is strengthening the distribution network in Chennai by setting up new substations and installing new transformers in existing substations.

India, Chennai: Tamil Nadu State government is expected to save millions it has been spending on the maintenance of high-voltage power transformers as the Research & Development wing of Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) is to introduce bellows in order to preserve transformer insulation.

India: Indian transformer manufacturer Marsons is looking to overcome the working capital constraints by means of a strategic investment into the organization.

India: Transformers and Rectifiers (India) has won a transformer order worth $15.3 million from Power Grid Corporation of India.

India: Tata Power and ICICI Venture have launched a new platform company to invest in Indian power projects over the next two-three years.

India: The new director of the Power Division of the electrical equipment and transformer manufacturer BHEL, Akhil Joshi, has paid his maiden visit to the BHEL manufacturing facility in Bhopal.

India, Jharkhand: Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das claims he would ensure power supply to every village in the coming years, but many parts of the state of Jharkhand remain in darkness due to transmission loss and damaged transformers.

India: T&R India has been awarded a contract worth $10 million from Power Grid Corporation to supply 765 kV ultra-high voltage shunt reactors for substations in the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan.

India, Nagaland: The Mokokchung Town Lanur Telongjem (MTLT) has expressed concerns about the power crisis in Mokokchung in their charter of demands sent to the Power Department on 24 August 2016, in which they request the upgrade of the existing substation and the addition of a new one.

India, Andhra Pradesh: A major transformer fire broke out at the Tadikonda substation in the Guntur district late on Wednesday evening leaving most parts of the district in darkness.

India, Mumbai: Siemens Ltd. has received an order worth approximately $32.5 million from Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Limited (PGCB) for a regional power exchange project.

India, Kerala: New power transformers are being installed at Mattannur substation in Kannur district, which will provide power to the newly built Kannur International Airport and other infrastructure in the area.

India, Noida: The power department is in the process of installing distribution transformer meters on the transformers across the city in an attempt to monitor electricity theft in the city.

INDIA: The Bhopal Energy Department has set out an action plan to upgrade its power supply with new transformers.

India: Centre’s plan to procure electrical equipment on a mass scale has been met with resistance from states