USA, Oregon: Officials at the Forest Grove City Council are expected issuing a bond to pay for a $3.5 million replacement of three transformers at Light & Power substations.
India: Alstom T&D India has won three contracts worth INR 240 crore ($39 million) from Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation to supply three air-insulated substations.
USA, Indiana: NIPSCO is investing $1.1 billion in massive modernisation programme which involves replacement of around 10% of the company’s electric transmission system.
Argentina, Buenos Aires: The Federal Ministry of Planning reported on the progress of expansion of the electricity distribution networks of low and medium voltage by distributors Edenor and Edesur.
Russia: Tyumenenergo is in the process of updating substation Samza in accordance with the company’s investment programme which includes comprehensive reconstruction of the object.
Africa: The World Bank Group will commit $ 5 billion to electricity projects in six African countries as part of the US-backed Power Africa initiative.
France, Levallois-Perret: Alstom has been awarded a € 5 million contract by power plant operator Vattenfall Generation AG to deliver and install two 110 kV gas-insulated substations in the Jänschwalde and Schwarze Pumpe lignite power plants in Brandenburg, Germany.
India, Bareilly: The Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) has granted INR 30 crore ($ 4.9 million) to upgrade several transformer substations following unscheduled power cuts on a regular basis.
Japan, Tokyo: Marubeni supplied main transformers and outdoor switchgear system as part of Chana 2 combined cycle power plant delivery with Siemens to Electric Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT).
USA: Northeastern states are starting to fund projects which will help to develop microgrids following superstorm Sandy which crippled New Jersey’s power grid and caused billions of dollars of damage.
India, New Delhi: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government plans to fund up to 75% of the investment required to supply electricity through separate feeders for agricultural and rural domestic consumption.
Nigeria: As part of the measures to strengthen the transmission infrastructure, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) plans to boost its infrastructure to have the capacity to evacuate 20,000 MW of electricity by 2020.
India: The acquisition of Vijai Electricals T&D business by Toshiba may enable India to establish itself as the core transmission and distribution technology supplier in the world.
Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has successfully commissioned an HVDC link for American Electric Power (AEP), replacing the 30-year-old Oklaunion HVDC back-to-back converter station in Texas, USA.
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