#power transformer

Canada, Toronto: Hydro One has started work on the replacement of two power transformers at the Cobden Transformer Station.

USA, South Dakota: 80 MW Beethoven wind project, operated by a Munich-based company BayWa AG, should go online in the coming days as the farm received the main power transformer.

Russia, Dagestan: MES South has plans to perform a series of replacement works at the revamped 330 kV Makhachkala substation in 2015.

Kyrgyzstan, Jalal-Abad: Electrical Stations OJSC has began the active phase of the restoration of the T2 block transformer at the Toktogul Hydroelectric Station.

Spain, Madrid: Spain, Portugal and France sealed the agreement on boosting energy cooperation as a step towards reducing energy dependence on Russian energy supplies.

Argentina, Rio Negro: Four cities across the province of Rio Negro, Argentina, will benefit from the provincial government investment of nearly $6 million into transformer station upgrades.

China, Hong Kong: VPower, a Hong Kong-based short to medium term power generation company, has launched a gas-fired interim power plant in Rakhine State, Myanmar, which is the first gas-fired power plant that connects directly to the country’s 230 kV grid.

France, Cattenom: Reactor Unit 3 at the Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant located close to Luxembourg-France border in the Cattenom commune, France, has been shut down after an electrical fault was detected in the main power transformer.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has launched Transformer Intelligence™, new sensor based monitoring solution for transformer assets, at its US Automation and Power World event in Houston, Texas.

Argentina, Corrientes: Argentine government has approved a budget of $10.5 million towards a major energy project to be implemented in Santa Lucia in the province of Corrientes.

Canada, British Columbia: The Como Lake substation in Coquitlam has been energised after receiving a $16 million (CAD 20 million) upgrade which began 20 months ago.

Canada, Toronto: Toronto Hydro crews have been addressing a number of power outages across the city which have affected about 25,000 customers from Etobicoke to North York and Scarborough neighbourhoods.

India, Maharashtra: Mumbai-based engineering and construction company Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has commissioned two 765 kV substation projects in Maharashtra and Rajasthan, India

Russia, Moscow: Russian hydroelectric company RusHydro plans to replace more than half of the main electrical equipment for hydropower plants by 2025 as part of a comprehensive modernisation programme.

Jordan, Amman: The Cabinet of Jordan has approved a $9.9M project for the construction of a new transformer substation in the Tafileh Governorate in southern Jordan.

India, Gujarat: Alstom T&D India has inaugurated the first “Made in India” 800 kV HVDC convertor transformer from its power transformer manufacturing facility at Vadodara, in the state of Gujarat.

Ukraine, Zaporozhye: Zaporozhtransformator Joint Stock Company (ZTR), the Ukraininan manufacturer of transformer equipment, has delivered four power transformers to the Argentinean port of Zarate in the province of Buenos Aires.

USA, Missouri: Columbia City Council will be making decision on the approval of $63.1 million bond issue to be added to the city’s electric utility revenue funds to finance a major overhaul of the city’s electric service and infrastructure.

Australia, Sydney: Australian electricity company Ausgrid is performing the final stage of work on the replacement of 1961 Kurnell zone substation in southern Sydney.

USA, Washington: Ferry County Public Utility District (PUD) has reached a decision to start processing their agency’s own transformer oil.

France, Corsica: A French electric utility company EDF has inaugurated a new substation at Loretto location in Ajaccio, the capital of Corsica.

Russia, Adygea: Kubanenergo, a Russian energy company and part of Rossetti Group, is planning to build a new Yablonovskaya substation in the Tahtamukaysky District, Adygea Republic.

Argentine, Tucuman: Tucuman Electrical Energy Distributor EDET has commissioned a new power transformer in its Pozo Cevil substation in Tucuman province.

Russia, Krasnodar: Governor of Kuban region in Southern Russia signed an agreement with the Federal Electric Grid Company UES for the construction of a substation in the eastern industrial zone of Krasnodar, Kuban capital.