#power transformers

USA, Connecticut: Alstom formally endorsed a $ 17 billion all-cash offer from General Electric for its energy division.

Russia, Astrakhan: IDGC of the South (Rosseti) have replaced power transformer in the 35/10 kV substation Oktyabrskaya.

France, Levallois-Perret: Siemens AG stepped up plans for a bid for Alstom assets to counter General Electric Co., while ABB said it was closely following the bidding war.

Italy: Italian Windings Group will be focusing on their newest products at the CWIEME Berlin this July.

USA, New Jersey: PSE&G customers will benefit from numerous upgrades the utility is making to its transmission and distribution facilities to maintain reliability this summer.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB built the most powerful converter station in the world in Germany which covers 25 % of the Deutsche Bahn’s electricity needs. The group had received this order worth € 80 million (approx. $ 110 million).

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB, the world’s largest maker of power transformers, reported first-quarter profit that missed the estimates.

USA, Texas: The report ‘Transformer Oil Market by Types (Mineral Oil – Naphthenic & Paraffinic, Silicone, and Bio-based), Applications (Small & Large Transformers, Utility) & Geography – Global Industry Trends & Forecast to 2018’ has been announced.

USA, New Jersey: Bel Fuse Inc. announced it is set to acquire the Power-One Power Solutions business of ABB Ltd.

Kyrgyzstan: The country has provided more than $ 5 billion in investments, $ 760 million of which is already at the development stage.

Ireland, Dublin: Research and Markets has announced the addition of the ‘Power Transformers Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 – 2019’ report to their offering.

USA, Washington: The Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery& Energy Reliability has released an update to its ‘2012 Large Power Transformers and the U.S. Electric Grid’ report.

Paraguay, Asunción: The explosion of the ANDE power transformer left much of the Ciudad Nueva part of Asunción without power.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB introduced a new Micropole transformer for small, isolated load applications to the US market. The Micropole distribution transformer is a single phase, pole mounted distribution transformer for 3 kVA or less.

USA, New Jersey: Power Magnetics, Inc. (PMI), a company which designs and manufactures custom transformers, recently celebrated its 45th anniversary.

USA, Florida: A fire shut down three out of four power transformers at the Duke Energy facility on Weedon Island.

Ukraine, Kurakhove: Unit 9 of Kurakhovka power station has been shut down for reconstruction yesterday.

India, Noida: Upgrade of the Pali substation in GB Nagar is ahead of the schedule. The project is to boost the capacity of the substation which will supplement the electricity supply of Noida and Greater Noida.

Argentina, Córdoba: Transener will expand the transformer station supplying Monte Cristo with 600 MVA transformation capacity.

Ireland, Dublin: Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Global Transformer Monitoring Solutions Market 2014-2018 with ABB, Alstom, GE, Schneider Electric & Siemens Dominating” report to their offering.

USA, Connecticut: GE’s Digital Energy has added the new PROLEC-GE flexible integrated transformer (FIT) to its medium-power transformer portfolio.

USA, Michigan: The nuclear reactor at DTE’s Fermi 2 nuclear power plant in Newport was shut down yesterday to replace one of the plant’s two main transformers.

Korea: A stand by power transformer will be shipped from Hyosung factory in Korea to the Tiwai Pt plant owned by New Zealand Aluminium Smelters.

China, Xinjiang: Chinese TBEA is interested in cooperation with enterprises of Tatarstan and developing its own production in the territory.