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Pakistan, Lahore: As many as seven people including children were injured when a power transformer exploded near Mahmood Boti Baghbanpura area on Wednesday.

Nigeria, Abuja: The recent electricity accident in an Abuja suburb in which three persons died and several others were injured, has brought to fore the need for operators to improve on safety.

USA, Butler County, OH: Roger K. Newport, AK Steel’s CEO and Director said that Q2 results showed significant improvement from a year ago.

Chile:The central grid operator CDEC-SIC launched a tender for three transmission projects requiring an estimated USD 192 million in investment.

USA, Tazewell County, IL: Ameren Illinois is upgrading the power grid that supplies electricity to homes and businesses in Tazewell County to meet growing needs.

China, Beijing: China’s Ministry of Commerce says it has imposed anti-dumping duties on steel imports from Japan, South Korea and the European Union.

Switzerland: ABB has won orders worth around USD 40 million from Poland’s national transmission system operator (TSO) to provide transformers that will extend and upgrade the transmission grid.

India, Noida: The power department is in the process of installing distribution transformer meters on the transformers across the city in an attempt to monitor electricity theft in the city.

USA: Dozens of break-ins examined by The Wall Street Journal show how regulators and policy makers’ orders stipulated to secure the power grid have still left tens of thousands of utility substations vulnerable to terrorist saboteurs.

UK: Chaos erupted at the Dartford Crossing after the tunnel and bridge closed due to 430 tonne transformer transport.

INDIA: The Bhopal Energy Department has set out an action plan to upgrade its power supply with new transformers.

ZIMBABWE: The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) is going to conduct a study to see how much funding is required to upgrade its distribution infrastructure.

NAMIBIA: on Friday the country was confronted with the third countrywide power outage this year when a technical problem occurred at the Auas sub-station east of Windhoek, which caused the Auas/Kokerboom 400kV line to trip.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB presented the results of the second quarter of 2016, highlighting solid progress on profitability.

France/Ireland: France and Ireland plan to build a 1-billion-euro (USD 1.10 billion) power link to connect the two countries by 2025.

Australia: A new plant based oil is being developed to replace petrochemicals in industrial products ranging from fuels and lubricants to special chemicals and plastics.

USA: U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell has asked the National Academy of Sciences to assist Congress as it considers federal funding for grid modernization.

India: Centre’s plan to procure electrical equipment on a mass scale has been met with resistance from states

This report studies transformer monitoring in the global market, with an emphasis on North America, Europe, China, Japan, Southeast Asia and India.

Angola, Luanda: Two power substations with the capacity for 80 MW each will be built soon within the Viana Industrial Estate, to help meet the needs of the firms there.

India, Agra: The 197 crore (USD 42 million) project of Akhilesh Yadav, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, began a couple of years back in the Tajganj area near the Taj Mahal.

Switzerland: 1,100 kV UHVDC power link has the capacity to transmit 12,000 MW of electric energy over 3,000 kilometres.

Slovenia: Kolektor Etra has been granted a deal to supply transformers to the offshore substation for Dong Energy’s 448MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 project in the German North Sea.

The analysts forecast the global instrument transformer market to grow at a CAGR of 7.81% during the period 2016-2020.