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Pakistan, Lahore: A massive power breakdown plunged major parts Pakistan into darkness on Thursday, after the Guddu power plant in Sukkur defaulted due to transformer fire.

USA, Washington: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) last week announced the release of DOE’s comprehensive new Grid Modernization Multi-Year Program Plan and $220 million in grid modernization funding.

Belarus: Last week 390 settlements and 1,100 transformer substations remained without electricity in Mogilev and Minsk regions, Belarus, due to severe weather conditions.

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Russia, St. Petersburg: Power Machines – Toshiba. High-voltage transformers (PMTT) has won an order from the electricity company IDGC of Center and Volga Region for the supply of a new power transformer for the 110 kV Pechatnaya substation in Ryazan.

USA, Washington: Seattle City Light plans to start work next month on the $209.5 million Denny Substation in South Lake Union, which will distribute power to north downtown of Seattle, Washington.

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USA, Georgia: PPI, parent company of Power Partners, has announced that they have signed an agreement for the sale of Power Partners to OpenGate Capital, a global private equity firm.

India, Pune: The new report published by MarketsandMarkets titled “Pad-Mounted Transformer Market by End User, by Phase, by Rated Power, by Insulation Type & by Region – Global Forecast to 2020” is now available.

USA: Metal Miner has analysed five trends expected to underpin the dynamic that will impact the global grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES) market in 2016.

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UK, London: Over the next two years General Electric plans to cut up to 6,500 jobs in energy units the company bought from Alstom.

USA, Virginia: Dominion Virginia Power, a Virginia-based power company, has announced its plan to invest nearly $9.5 billion to 2020 in order to increase solar and other new generation capacity and to upgrade infrastructure.

Indonesia, Jakarta: PT Sintra Power Elektrik is investing $20 million in setting up a new transformer manufacturing plant in Cikarang, West Java province.

USA, Oregon: A new report by Allied Market Research titled “World Transformer Oil Market – Opportunities and Forecasts, 2014-2020” projects the global transformer oil sales to reach $3.4 billion by 2020, with the mineral oil-based transformer oil segment to maintain its dominance until 2020.

India, Mumbai: Avantha Group Company CG has been awarded a contract from Denmark’s national electricity transmission system operator Energinet.dk to provide power transformers and gas insulated switchgear (GIS) for the Kriegers Flak wind farm project in the Baltic Sea.

Kenya: More than 14 transformers will be installed in Juja sub-county in Kenya in the first quarter of this year to increase the sub-county’s access to power.

USA, Kentucky: Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives Inc. (KAEC) announced in December it will shut down its transformer manufacturing operations in Louisville in early 2016, as part of a shift to a distribution-only business model.

Azerbaijan: On 11 January Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev attended the opening of a large power transformer plant owned by ATEF Group of Companies, and laid the foundation of a high-voltage equipment factory.

Australia, New South Wales: A 140-metre prime mover carrying a 240-ton generator transformer bound for EnergyAustralia’s Mt Piper power station made its way through the Mid-Western Region in New South Wales, Australia on Saturday.

USA, South Carolina: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has started a specialized inspection at the Oconee Nuclear Station near Seneca, South Carolina, to assist in assessing degraded power cables on start-up transformers for two of the plant’s three units.

USA, Rhode Island: The National Grid expects to start construction on a new substation near the South Street Landing project, in Providence, Rhode Island, next month.

Egypt, Cairo: The Egyptian Electricity Holding Company has allocated $488 million for the improvements in Egypt’s electricity distribution networks in 2016, including new distribution lines, transformers, and low and medium voltage cables.

Argentine, Mendoza: Argentinian utility Edemsa has officially opened a new transformer station Las Viñas at Villa Seca in Tunuyán in order to provide a better electricity service in this famous wine-growing region in Mendoza province, Argentine.