#power transformers

India, Mumbai: Larsen & Toubro (L&T) power transmission and distribution business has secured contracts worth $ 126.5 million in Saudi Arabia and Oman.

USA, Connecticut: General Electric (GE)’s process of the $ 16.9 billion bid for the Alstom’s power turbine and grid business is going as expected according to the president of GE’s power unit.

Nigeria: Mikano International, distributor of industrial and household power generators, has entered an agreement with Schneider Electric to manage the sales of low voltage electrical equipment.

India, Mumbai: CG has announced the installation of power transformer substation at the Amrumbank West offshore wind farm. The station is located 100 kilometres off the German coast in the North Sea.

Sweden, Stockholm: Ana Cura has been appointed Regional Director Nynas Americas and takes on the responsibility with a vast experience from the Chemical business.

India, Mumbai: Crompton Greaves (CG) will equip the Butendiek offshore substation, built as part of the German Butendiek offshore wind farm project for Western Power Distribution (WPD) Offshore Solutions GmbH.

USA, New Jersey: Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP & L) plans to build a $ 10 million substation expansion in West Amwell to enhance customer service reliability and meet the growing power demand in the area.

USA, New York: Siemens AG is open to offering additional assets to a bid for Alstom S.A.’s power business, Dow Jones Newswires reported Sunday.

Paraguay: Two banks of power transformers were changed by ANDE over the past weekend. The aim is to increase the power and improve the quality of service for the consumers.

India, Malwa: The 220 kV power grid station in Singhan Wala village caught fire following a blast in one of the power transformers on Saturday.

USA, Connecticut: General Electric (GE) France spokesman said that the company is not in talks with Toshiba Corp about the Alstom’s power grid unit.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has announced it will equip the 900 MW Nant de Drance pumped-storage plant in Valais with power transformers and six generator circuit breakers.

Japan: Toshiba will make an offer to General Electric (GE) to acquire the power transformer and management systems from the energy department of Alstom.

USA, New York: Power Transformers Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 – 2019 has been announced.

Russia: Autotransformer has been delivered from Croatia to Zelenchukskaya HPP-SDPP constructed by RusGidro.

Nigeria: According to General Electric (GE)’s Mr Lazarus Angbazo, President & Chief Executive Officer, CEO, General Electric Nigeria, the country’s electricity infrastructure is ageing and degraded, and causing the current power crisis in the country.

USA, New Jersey: Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy, is setting up a new power transformer and circuit breaker at its Manalapan substation as part of a $ 1.2 million upgrade project.

USA, Washington: The U.S. Commerce Department set preliminary dumping margins on electrical steel products from seven foreign countries, and it may impose punitive duties on the products.

India: ABB India announced yesterday that it had a satisfactory first quarter due to higher order intake of power transformers and substations.

Ethiopia: A transformer factory with a production capacity of over 10,000 power transformers a year will be built in the country.

Turkmenistan: President of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, met with the head of Schneider Electric, President of the Supervisory Board, Henri Lachmann and executive vice president, Frederic Abbal.

Venezuela, Carabobo: Corpoelec performed a replacement of number one autotransformer in Planta Centro, located in Morón.

Pakistan, Islamabad: Pakistan and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a loan agreement for $ 167.2 million for the ‘Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Programme’.

Russia, Makhachkala: Dagenergoset has started reconstruction of the GPP substation, which supplies electricity to the suburban areas of Makhachkala.