#transformers

Nepal, Kathmandu: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), the state-owned power utility, may soon import up to 220 MW of additional electricity from India.

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.

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%.

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.

Pfisterer, German provider of cable systems and pluggable connections with offshore certification for transformers, converters and switchgear up to 500 kV, has introduced pluggable systems for the networking of complete wind farms from a single source.

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USA, Texas: Micro Market Monitor has published new reports on transformer oil market.

France, Levallois-Perret: General Electric (GE) announced a revised $ 13.5 billion bid for the Alstom energy business aimed at the French government.

USA, New York: Niagara Transformer Corp. is completing the first phase of a multi-step expansion in order to meet growing demand for products.

India, Calangute: A new power transformers has been commissioned in Calangute following voltage fluctuations.

Nigeria: TBEA International Turnkey Project of China, is interested in supplying modern day power transformers to the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and Kaduna Electricity Distribution company.

India, Mumbai: Crompton Greaves (CG) has made a deal with Spanish Iberdrola Ingenieria y Construccion S.A.U., which is supervising the Nairobi Metropolitan Ring Project, to supply high-voltage (HV) equipment for the under-construction 220/66 kV substations around the Greater Nairobi Metropolitan Area.

India, Mumbai: CG has announced the installation of power transformer substation at the Amrumbank West offshore wind farm. The station is located 100 kilometres off the German coast in the North Sea.

USA, Washington: The U.S. Commerce Department set preliminary dumping margins on electrical steel products from seven foreign countries, and it may impose punitive duties on the products.

USA, Connecticut: GE’s Digital Energy has added the new PROLEC-GE flexible integrated transformer (FIT) to its medium-power transformer portfolio.

Zimbabwe: Yesterday ZESA Holdings (Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority) announced it lost over $ 6 million through vandalism of the electrical equipment, mostly transformers.