#USA

USA, Massachusetts, New Bedford: Eversource and National Grid want to construct a new overhead transmission line.

USA, New York: The Big Apple takes a big step with a $4.5 B transmission line that will deliver Canadian hydropower to New York City.

USA, South Carolina, Greenville: Integrated Power Services (IPS) announces it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Tampa Armature Works Inc. (TAW).

USA, Arkansas, Berryville: electric cooperative Carroll Electric Cooperative Corporation has recently faced a challenge in the managing network of substations.

USA, Connecticut: Engineering consultancy Kent was awarded the design contract for the offshore substation for Avangrid Renewables’ Park City Wind project.

USA, California: California Independent System Operator (ISO) Board of Governors approved the 2021-2022 10-Year Transmission Plan on 17 March.

USA, New York City: A consortium between GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions and New BOND Civil & Utility Construction has been awarded an EPC contract.

USA, South Carolina, Greenville: Integrated Power Services (IPS) is to acquire ABB’s US and Canadian hydro generator rewind and transformer repair businesses.

USA: North America’s geotextile manufacturer comes up with a solution to prevent oil leaks from power transformers.

USA, Mesa: Salt River Project (SRP) has announced a half-mile 230 kV transmission line and substation to serve energy to a data centre.

USA: The Idaho National Laboratory has licensed the production of an Armored Transformer Barrier system.

USA: National Grid and Siemens Energy are teaming for a cutting-edge upgrade of a National Grid substation with Siemens Energy designed “Blue circuit breakers.”

USA, West Virginia, Boone: Burns & McDonnell, in partnership with American Electric Power (AEP), has successfully completed a four-year-long project.

USA: Company eSmart Systems will work with Topeka, Kansas-headquartered Evergy, to digitize Evergy’s power transmission system.

USA: GE Global Research (GEGR) and Cooperative Energy completed commissioning tests for a first-of-its-kind full-scale prototype large power transformer (LPT).

USA: American Electric Power this year will launch a process to sell some or all of the company’s unregulated contracted wind and solar energy assets.

USA, Massachusetts: Iberdrola will invest more than $10 B in the development of three offshore wind complexes.

USA: Colorado utility regulators approved a plan on Wednesday to build a massive $1.7 B transmission loop around the Eastern Plains.

USA: PPL Corporation has received approval from the Rhode Island Division of Public Utilities to acquire Narragansett Electric Company from National Grid USA.

USA, Louisiana: Entergy Louisiana has announced the construction of a new substation and distribution circuits in parts of Calcasieu Parish.

USA: Ameren Missouri has agreed to buy a 150 MW solar facility project from Chicago-based energy project developer Invenergy.

USA: A major Midwest utility hires NovaTech Automation on a multi-year replacement of all their remote terminal units.

USA: MidAmerican Energy rolled out a digital curriculum to supplement the training program for its substation workforce.

USA, New York: COWI, a leading international engineering consulting group, has been awarded its largest offshore wind engineering contract in the USA to date.