Belgium, Brussels: As the European Commission launched a Communication on Steel – Preserving Sustainable Jobs and Growth in Europe, the European Council met to discuss jobs, growth and competitiveness.
The Netherlands: The Dutch government-owned electrical grid TenneT has announced its plan to invest €22 billion ($24.25 billion) in new onshore and offshore electricity infrastructure in the coming decade.
Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has received an order worth around $140 million from transmission system operators Energinet.dk in Denmark and 50Hertz Transmission in Germany to design, supply and install an HVDC (high voltage direct current) converter station in Bentwisch, Northern Germany.
The governments of Rwanda and Japan signed a financing agreement worth $18.4 million aimed at boosting electricity distribution networks in the City of Kigali, Rwanda.
Angola: The Nzeto power substation in Angola is expected to be completed by June this year, which will facilitate the transmission of electricity from 753 MW Soyo combined cycle power plant to Zaire, Bengo and Luanda provinces.
It’s official: The oldest tap changer still in service anywhere in the world can be found at the UNIPER oil-fired power station in Ingolstadt.
Germany, Frankfurt: GE and transmission system operator TenneT have installed two 685 MVA power transformers at the Dörpen West converter station for the DolWin3 High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) project.
UAE, Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi government is set to invest more than $128 million on major infrastructural projects, which will also include electricity distribution projects.
India, Mumbai: Electrical equipment and transformer manufacturer Crompton Greaves Ltd has agreed to sell its international power business to the U.S. private equity firm First Reserve International Ltd for an enterprise value of €115 million ($126 million), according to VC Circle.
Finland: Finland’s first commercial offshore wind farm, the €120-million ($132 million) 40 MW Tahkoluoto project in the Gulf of Bothnia, in the north of the Baltic Sea, west of Finland, will be custom-designed and built to withstand the local icy conditions.
Japan, Tokyo: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has delivered the energy-storage system with 50 MW output and 300 MWh rated capacity to Kyushu Electric Power Co.
Siemens has signed a contract with the Petronas procurement consultant company (PSI) for the supply of NET transformers for their newly constructed refinery at Pengerang in Malaysia.
Germany: 300 new regulated local grid transformers will go online at EWE NETZ GmbH, one of the largest distribution network operators in Germany, until 2017 across the entire network.
Germany: MR has completed its first retrofit project in Japan managed by the Reinhausen Solutions Co. (RJP) company, newly established at the end of 2014.
USA, South Carolina: A transformer at the Oconee nuclear power plant in South Carolina caught fire on Sunday 6 March, burning for about 30 minutes, but no nuclear material was in danger of being released, Reuters reports.
USA, New York: The New York Power Authority (NYPA), the U.S. largest state public power organization, has received an Electric Power Research Institute Technology Transfer Award for research that sheds new light on the failure of transformer bushings.
Syndicate Market Research has made available a new report titled “Smart Transformers Market – Global Industry Perspective, Comprehensive Analysis and Forecast, 2014 – 2020”.
USA, New York: GE has announced the company will provide a turnkey project to Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company (Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du Gaz) for the Bouchemma power plant.
USA, Virginia & New Jersey: The Schaffner Group, provider of electronic systems solutions and engineered low and medium voltage transformer, has announced a new sales structure in North America with a new entity Schaffner North America, Power Solutions.
ReportnReports has made available a new market research report titled “Busbar Market by Power Rating, End User & by Region – Global Trends & Forecasts to 2020”.
USA, New Hampshire: During the next three years, Eversource Energy will be upgrading the aging electrical infrastructure in the city of Keene in the Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
Croatia, Zagreb: KONČAR – Power Plant and Electric Traction Engineering (KET) announced the company has started preparatory work on the reconstruction project of Kutina transformer station.
Russia: EuroSibEnergo, Russia’s largest privately-held power producer, announced a $200 million New Energy modernization program of its Siberian hydropower plants (HPPs) on the Angara and Yenisei rivers.
India, Tamil Nadu: 13 new substations have been proposed to be erected in Krishnagiri district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.