#power transformer

Grand View Research, Inc. has announced the addition of “Global Power Transformer Market Analysis and Segment Forecasts to 2020” market research report to their offering.

Ergon International, Inc., and Petroleum Specialties Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of APAR Industries, have reached a distribution agreement to market co-branded naphthenic insulating oils specifically for the Turkish transformers market.

Malaysia, Sarawak: Sarawak Energy Bhd (SEB) is currently in the process of implementing six new 33 kV substations throughout the city of Miri.

Switzerland, Basel: Haefely Hipotronics, a Switzerland-based provider of high voltage test equipment solutions, has announced the appointment of Sinemax International Company as its authorized representative in Taiwan.

Egypt, Cairo: Egypt’s Electricity Ministry has signed cost-sharing agreements with investors to build 24 solar power stations of 1,800 MW, in addition to three contracts for a 650 MW steam power plant south of Helwan.

Brazil: Brazilian transformer manufacturer WEG has been upgrading nine 550 kV single-phase transformer following the contract signed with the electric utility company Copel.

USA, San Francisco: According to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc., the Middle East distribution transformer market is expected to reach $3.59 billion by 2022.

USA, North Carolina: At least two workers have been killed, and the condition of a third worker is unknown, after an accident in a large power transformer at SPX Transformer Solutions on U.S. Route 117 near Goldsboro, according to authorities cited by BNO News.

USA, Iowa: Iowa electric utility Alliant Energy is building several big substations in Cedar Rapids with an aim to replace and retire a lot of small substations, as part of $210 million investment in electrical distribution projects in 2015.

Myanmar: Hitachi Soe Electric & Machinery, a joint venture company formed by Japan’s Hitachi and a local transformer company, is planning to start exporting transformers in 2017.

Germany: Siemens has received an order to supply two phase-shifting transformers to California from the local supplier of energy to the Imperial Valley area in Southern California.

South Africa, Johannesburg: Eskom has installed a $10 million transformer in Arconhoek in Mpumalanga province in a bid to ensure reliable power supply to the communities in rural Bushbuckridge local municipality.

Ghana, Accra: President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, has announced that Ghana could soon start manufacturing transformers, addressing the public at the inauguration of a new meter assembling plant a few days ago.

Canada, British Columbia: The Winsor Substation in Elko, British Columbia will receive its first substantial upgrade since it was initially built in 1970, as part of BC Hydro’s 10-year investment plan for the upgrade of the province’s distribution and transmission system.

Siemens has announced a power transformer technology portfolio engineered and adapted to address resiliency and power security challenges in the U.S. market, and help utilities respond to the new pressures to invest in protecting and updating their transformers to be able to react in cases of emergency.

USA, New York: Rochester Gas and Electric, a subsidiary of Iberdrola USA, has received two substation transformers, which make key components of the Ginna Retirement Transmission Alternative (GRTA).

South Africa: South Africa’s largest utility company Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. signed a 150 million-euro (nearly $160 million) credit agreement with France’s development agency to enhance reliability of the power grid and help the power company improve distribution of electricity.

Germany: Siemens has received an order for 14 ultra-high-voltage direct current (UHVDC) converter transformers for the Nanjing station of the Shanxi Jinbei-Jiangsu Nanjing transmission project in China.

Malaysia, Selangor: The new major shareholders of Pasukhas Group Bhd, a Malaysian group engaged in construction and M&E engineering, are expected to set up a new business within the company – the trading and supply of high-voltage transformers.

USA, Utah: With the arrival of the second shipment from China, the Rocky Mountain Power Pinto substation outside Monticello, Utah has become home to the largest phase-shifting power transformer in the United States, and the second largest in the world.

USA, New York: Rochester Gas & Electric (RG&E) filed with the New York State Public Service Commission a report on what it is doing, and plans to do, in case the Ginna Nuclear Plant of Exelon is retired later this decade.

Spain, Caceres: A new electrical substation will be launched in Coria, Caceres after the expansion works on the existing substation are completed.

Turkey: Ekin transportation service has successfully moved a power transformer through Turkey to a power station in Hakkari, in the south-east of the country.

First tests of the Lithuanian-Polish interconnection LitPol Link have been carried out, and for the first time electricity flowed through the wires of the power line stretching from Elk in Poland to Alytus in Lithuania, in order to check whether the line is ready for power transmission.