Saudi Arabia, Jeddah: The work on about 857 projects worth $19.7 billion earmarked for the Jeddah region of Saudi Arabia over the past number of years, including electricity and power transformer projects, is progressing well with some of them already completed, Trade Arabia cites a report.
USA, New Jersey: Jinpan International Limited, a manufacturer of cast resin transformers, has announced that it has entered into a merger agreement with FNOF E&M Investment Limited and Silkwings Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of FNOF E&M Investment Limited, according to PR Newswire.
United Kingdom: Centrifugal pump maker SPP Pumps has opened a brand new transformer oil manufacturing and testing facility at its Gloucestershire base in the UK.
State Grid Corporation of China, the world’s biggest utility, plans to invest $350 billion into expansion of its power transmission network by 2020.
Canada: Siemens Transformers Canada (STCA) recently received an order for the delivery of 1,200 pole-mounted transformers from Saskpower, a public utility serving the province of Saskatchewan in Canada.
Germany: Siemens has signed a ($10 million) €9 million contract to supply the Iraqi market with 1,250 distribution transformers.
India, Tamil Nadu: The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) is constructing new substations around the city and its suburbs to tackle the power situation during summer.
Kurdistan: At least 120 transformers are to arrive in Sulaimani to help improve power supply to the city, which suffers from frequent blackouts.
United Kingdom, Suffolk: Last week three enormous electrical transformers were transported by road from Lowestoft docks to Sizewell, the slow-moving convoys causing disruption over three days on the B1122 as it made its way through small villages.
Russia, Moscow: MOESK has completed a major reconstruction of the 220 kV Central Substation increasing its capacity by 30%.
Norway: A 101-ton transformer was successfully shipped to a Norwegian fjord for final delivery to a remote power station.
Switzerland, Zurich: ABB will supply a substation for the Shams Ma’an photovoltaic project, the largest of its kind in Jordan, which will help the country reach renewable targets of 10 percent of its energy mix by 2020.
Transparency Market Research has issued a new market research report titled “Three Phase Transformer Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth Trends, and Forecast 2015 – 2023”.
Germany: Via Siemens AG, Siemens Transformers, has received an order for the Nemo Link, a 140-kilometer HVDC link between Richborough, UK and Zeebrugge, Belgium from National Grid in the U.K. and Elia Group in Belgium.
Korea: Korea Electric Power Corp. announced that the company will be designing and building a digitized power substation in Bhutan.
USA, Maryland: A slow moving convoy carrying a transformer through two states experienced delays in Harrisville, Maryland, on Tuesday morning.
Russia, Krasnodar Krai: South Western Electric Networks, a branch of PJSC Kubanenergo, will reconstruct two substations this year which supply power to the city of Anapa and its suburbs in Krasnodar region, the Black Sea.
France, Paris: With the completed acquisition of Alstom’s power and grid businesses, GE Digital Energy and Alstom Grid have combined to form Grid Solutions, a GE and Alstom joint venture.
India, Tamil Nadu: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister has announced that new substations will be established at a cost of over $1 billion in order to strengthen the power infrastructure in the state, according to The New Indian Express.
Bulgaria, Kyustendil: Bulgarian electricity company CEZ Distribution Bulgaria AD has invested close to $1.7 million in power distribution maintenance works carried out in Kyustendil District, in the southwest of Bulgaria.
ANDERSON — The Anderson Board of Works has awarded a contract for the design work to construct a new electrical power substation for the NTN Driveshaft facility.
India, Delhi: TATA Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL) has commissioned its maiden 66/11 kV GIS substation along with ABB India at Prashant Vihar, Rohini, a densely populated residential sub city in North West Delhi.
Cambodia, Phnom Penh: Pestech International Berhad, a Malaysian electric power technology company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the State Grid Corporation of China to jointly launch a power transformer factory in Cambodia and develop infrastructure projects throughout the country.
Markets and Markets has announced the release of a new market research report “Smart Transformers Market by Type (Power, Distribution, Specialty, and Instrument), Application (Smart Grid, Traction Locomotive, Electric Vehicle Charging, and Others) & by Region – Global Trends & Forecast to 2020”.