#Canada

The federal government and BC Hydro have announced a project to expand transmission lines to meet the Peace area’s growing industrial and development demands.

Canada, Ontario: Canadian transformer manufacturer E Craftsmen Corporation is celebrating 60 years of design and manufacture of custom transformers and inductors in the City of Waterloo, Ontario.

Canada, Ontario: The Ontario government has approved the construction of a wind farm on Amherst Island in Lake Ontario, which is internationally designated as an Important Bird Area, and known as the owl capital of North America.

Canada, Ontario: The power plant that heats and cools much of downtown London, a city in Ontario, Canada, while generating power is in for a major expansion.

Mayor Dwight Lethbridge worries 200-tonne transformers will damage town roads

Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador: The mayor of Cartwright, a Sandwich Bay community in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada says his town should be compensated for the role it will play in the Muskrat Falls project as Nalcor finalizes plans to ship seven 200-tonne transformers to the work site by way of the port in that community.

Canada, Quebec: Canadian institutional fund manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), in association with Mexican consortium CKD, plans to invest $1.83 billion in energy infrastructure projects in Mexico.

Canada, Ontario: Cam Tran Co., Canadian electrical transformer manufacturer and refurbisher, is working to scale up with a $3 million expansion project.

Canada, British Columbia: BC Hydro has completed the $23 million (CAD 32 million) Buckley Bay substation which will help meet the growing electricity needs of the Comox Valley.

Canada, British Columbia: Two new power transformers have been delivered to the site of the Big Bend substation being built by BC Hydro in south Burnaby, British Columbia.

Canada, British Columbia: BC Hydro has completed a major $47m expansion of the George Tripp substation in Victoria, BC, an investment forming part of a major capital plan for the improvement of the electricity infrastructure on the Vancouver Island.

Canada, Saskatchewan: SaskPower will be spending $82.5 million (CAD108 million) in the coming months to upgrade the provincial power grid in order to decrease the number of unplanned power outages, one third of which are the result of aging infrastructure.

Canada, Saskatchewan: SaskPower has added a second power transformer to its Fleet Street substation in the city of Regina to accommodate recent and future load growth in the eastern and northern parts of the city.

Canada, Saskatchewan: An improperly installed transformer caused a damaging power surge to 27 Saskatoon homes in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

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.

Canada, British Columbia: Huge flames and thick black smoke towered into the air in Richmond on Tuesday morning after a BC Hydro power station caught fire probably due to transformer failure.

Canada, Ontario: A major refurbishment has been successfully completed on an old transformer station owned by Niagara-on-the-Lake (NOTL) Hydro.

Canada, British Columbia: The Winsor Substation in Elko, British Columbia will receive its first substantial upgrade since it was initially built in 1970, as part of BC Hydro’s 10-year investment plan for the upgrade of the province’s distribution and transmission system.

Canada, British Columbia: Canadian North Shore in British Columbia has been hit by a series of substation explosions which left thousands of B.C. Hydro customers without power.

Canada, British Columbia: BC Hydro announced plans to build a new substation to meet a growing demand for electricity in the city of Kamloops, British Columbia.

India, New Delhi: Crompton Greaves (CG) is selling its power systems business in Canada to PTI Holdings Corporation for USD 15 million (CAD 20 million).

Canada, Montreal: ABB has named Nathalie Pilon as the new managing director for ABB in Canada, effective October 1, 2015.

Canada, Saskatchewan: SaskPower, the principal electric utility in Saskatchewan province in Canada, is planning to invest more than CAD 1 billion (over USD 800 million) a year for the foreseeable future in order to renew and grow the province’s power grid, according to company’s website.

Canada, Manitoba: Manitoba Hydro, the electric power and natural gas utility in the province of Manitoba, Canada has awarded a USD 24 million (CAD 31.4 million) engineering, procurement and construction contract to a consortium led by GE’s Digital Energy to build a new, 66 kV gas-insulated substation (GIS) in downtown Winnipeg.

Canada, British Columbia: Two new power transformers weighing 85 tons each have arrived in Merritt for BC Hydro’s Merritt substation.

Canada, Ontario: GRID20/20, Inc., a distribution transformer monitoring (DTM) intra-grid sensor provider, has formally announced its release of OptaNODE™ HESS, an organically developed, multi-purpose software platform.

Canada, Ontario: Torus Power, a subsidiary of Plitron Manufacturing and maker of isolation-transformer-based power components, has appointed Karma AV as its new distributor in the United Kingdom.

Canada, Quebec: After a failure of a transformer at Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) mining plant in Saguenay, Quebec, over 20,000 litres of transformer insulating oil was spilled, reported regional authorities.

Canada, Ontario: Hammond Power Solutions Inc. (HPS), a manufacturer of dry-type and cast resin transformers, announced that it has completed the formation of a new company, Corefficient S. de R.L. de C.V. (Corefficient), a joint venture with National Material LP (NMLP).