#USA

USA, Seattle: The new Denny substation in Seattle provides a vibrant communal space and an interactive, public walkway with expansive views of the city skyline.

USA, Butler County, OH: Roger K. Newport, AK Steel’s CEO and Director said that Q2 results showed significant improvement from a year ago.

USA, Tazewell County, IL: Ameren Illinois is upgrading the power grid that supplies electricity to homes and businesses in Tazewell County to meet growing needs.

USA: Dozens of break-ins examined by The Wall Street Journal show how regulators and policy makers’ orders stipulated to secure the power grid have still left tens of thousands of utility substations vulnerable to terrorist saboteurs.

USA: Oncor Electric Delivery Co. has been on the market for two years and bidding battle among the suitors Warren Buffet, NextEra and Ray Hunt family might ensue.

USA: A study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory suggests that the percentage of energy from renewable sources could be increased up to 90 percent with a national grid consisting of high voltage DC (HVDC).

USA, Georgia: Power transformer provider Hitachi HVB, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., has announced that it has changed its name to Hitachi T&D Solutions, Inc.

USA: Potomac Edison, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy, has begun construction of a new 34.5 kV power line as part of the $5 million project which will link an existing substation near Baker, West Virginia, to a new substation that will be built in Mathias, West Virginia, in 2017.

USA, New York: A massive fire caused by a faulty transformer has engulfed a power substation in Hillburn, New York.

According to vice-president of China Electrical Equipment Industrial Association (CCEIA), China is also moving towards high efficiency transformers, facing the same challenge of balancing performance with cost as that faced by the U.S. and the EU countries.

USA, Virginia: The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) has approved Appalachian Power’s request for $80 million improvements to its transmission grid in southwest Virginia.

USA, Colorado: The utility company Xcel Energy is working on a $30 million project at Greeley, Colorado, upgrading the substations and distribution system with an aim to almost triple the area’s transmission capacity.

USA, New Jersey: New Jersey local utility PSE&G is planning to upgrade an electrical facility in a heavily industrial area of Newark.

USA, California: After a truck hit a power pole on Mulholland Highway in Calabasas, Los Angeles, causing it to fall and a transformer to explode, the transformer ignited the fire that forced at least 5,000 people to evacuate their homes.

USA; Nebraska: The Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) will be moving a large power transformer from the Axtell area to Neligh starting Monday, 6 June and completing the move on Tuesday, 7 June.

USA, New York: PowerBridgeNY, a proof-of-concept center (POCC) program which is advised by the New York Academy of Sciences and provides early-stage investments and services to help inventors and scientists turn their high-tech, clean-energy ideas into a successful business, has helped establishment of a new company which has designed a new green transformer.

USA, Ohio: A new power transformer has been delivered to Hydro One’s Clarington transmission station.

USA, Maryland: Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) will invest $4 billion during the next five years in the power system upgrades and expansions in order to ensure fewer power outages and faster restoration of power when outages occur.

USA, Massachusetts: With Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts shutting down permanently in mid-2019, the site is being considered by another energy producer for the construction of a new power substation to be built as part of the $1.5 billion sub-Atlantic transmission project.

USA, Minnesota: Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) authorized a call for bids for an addition of a power transformer and associated improvements to the South Side Substation in New Ulm, Minnesota.

USA, Washington: The Port of Quincy in Washington State will be building two electrical power substations in 2017.

USA: First Reserve International, a US private equity fund, announced the signing of an investment to acquire a subset of the international power transmission and distribution division of Crompton Greaves Ltd., which will be rebranded as Pauwels, reports the PE Hub.

USA, New Mexico: Under an interagency agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has awarded a design-build substation contract at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to Gardner Zemke Mechanical and Electrical Contractors of Albuquerque.

USA, Florida: GE has announced opening of its new capacitor and instrument transformer advanced manufacturing facility in Clearwater, Florida following the investment of
$60 million.