India, Jharkhand: Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das claims he would ensure power supply to every village in the coming years, but many parts of the state of Jharkhand remain in darkness due to transmission loss and damaged transformers.
Germany: Siemens is supplying a total of 238 traction transformers to Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), UK’s largest railway operating company.
South Africa: Eskom’s coal-fired power station, Medupi, synchronised its Unit 5 to the national power grid, becoming the second of the power station’s six units to come on stream, the utility noted.
Researchers at the Switzerland’s Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have found a way of looking inside the iron core of transformers, a significant step towards understanding how transformers work today and in the development of more efficient transformers in the future.
USA, Wisconsin: Modine Manufacturing Co., a provider of thermal management technology and solutions, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Luvata Heat Transfer Solutions (HTS), a U.S. manufacturer of transformer coolers and other products for the HVACR market.
RnR Market Research has added to their offering a new report on distribution transformer market and forecasts to 2021.
Midel-insulated 160 MVA-transformer for Moscow in the testbay at the transformer plant in Voronezh.
Wise Guy Reports has added a new report titled “Electrical Transformer Market Demand, Growth, Opportunities and Analysis of Top Key Player Forecast to 2021” to its offering.
Cevian Capital, an activist hedge fund and the second largest shareholder of ABB, continues to push for a split of the engineering giant, according to Swedish media.
NOJA Power’s distributors RWW Engineering has installed two OSM automatic circuit reclosers as part of a compact mobile substation deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to achieve full transformer primary protection.
Afriguide has moved a faulty transformer from South Africa to Brazil for repair.
USA, Florida: For the second time in 12 days, one of Florida Power & Light transformers caught fire.
ABB is delivering a range of high-efficiency transformer products for the world’s most energy-efficient pulp mill, located in Äänekoski, central Finland.
France, Paris: GE has successfully commissioned back-to-back high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter facilities for the Brazil-Uruguay interconnection project, as well as extended and equipped existing substations for Interconexiones del Sur (ISUR).
With ageing fleets across the globe and growing energy demands, utility providers are under increasing pressure to implement new technologies that can enhance transformer safety and operating performance. To help support the industry in minimising unplanned outages, MIDEL has written a whitepaper examining the risks associated with power and distribution transformers, and looking at how these can be mitigated.
Croatia, Zagreb: Several transformer stations owned by the Croatian Distribution System Operator (HEP) will be reconstructed across Croatia after five contracts have been signed with KONČAR – Power Plant and Electric Traction Engineering (KET).
USA, West Virginia: Mon Power has completed a new substation and power lines that will provide electric service to a new Marcellus shale gas facility under construction in Doddridge County, West Virginia.
The Philippines, Cagayan De Oro City: National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has successfully energized its newly upgraded Opol Substation in Misamis Oriental to address the load growth in North Mindanao.
New test system TESTRANO 600: Compact, powerful, unique.
Quick and easy three-phase testing of power transformers
Austria, Klaus: With TESTRANO 600, OMICRON has developed the world’s first portable, three-phase test system, which supports all common electrical tests on power transformers.
Brazil, Recife: At least three fire engines worked to put out the transformer fire at a substation owned by the Brazilian power company Energy Company of Pernambuco in the Peixinhos district of Olinda, north of Recife.
Pakistan, Multan: Multan Electric Power Company (MEPCO) is installing a 40 MVA power transformer at the 132 KV Lodhran T-II grid station in order to resolve the complaints of low voltage.
Tanzania: Government of Tanzania will commit $3.2 million towards the implementation of the rural electrification project over a period of five years.
Switzerland, Zurich: ABB is supplying two new 400 kV substations for the Pen y Cymoedd wind energy project, being developed in south Wales by Vattenfall.
Kenya, Nairobi: Kenya Power and Toshiba Transmission & Distribution Systems (India) Private Limited (TTDI), a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a distribution pilot project.