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Ukraine: Schneider Electric has donated equipment worth $4.3 M (€4 M) to help restore essential energy supplies in Ukraine.

Trilantic North America announced that it has acquired a majority interest in Sunbelt Transformer.

USA, West Virginia: Utility company Potomac Edison has completed equipment upgrades at a substation in Jefferson County, West Virginia, to enhance service reliability and help meet high winter demand for electricity for about 2,200 customers in the Ranson and Charles Town areas.

2016 Market Research Report on Global Electric Power Distribution Equipment has been made available by Deep Research Reports.

USA, Maryland: Potomac Edison is upgrading equipment at a substation near Mt. Airy to help enhance service reliability for about 3,400 customers and meet increased electrical demand in the high-growth, eastern edge of its Maryland service area.

India: The new director of the Power Division of the electrical equipment and transformer manufacturer BHEL, Akhil Joshi, has paid his maiden visit to the BHEL manufacturing facility in Bhopal.

Ukraine, Zaporyzhye: Ukrainian transformer manufacturer ZTR has successfully tested the first transformer manufactured as part of the recently concluded equipment supply contract with the national energy operator Ukrenergo.

Croatia, Zagreb: Croatian blue-chip electrical equipment producer KONČAR – Electrical Industry said the consolidated net profit increased 16.8 % in the first half of 2016.

Nigeria, Abuja: The Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) is investing more than $15 million into the equipment to boost power infrastructure in Sokoto State, Nigeria.

Brazil: Electric equipment and transformer manufacturer WEG will supply a power transformer 275 MVA, 525 kV transformer for the 207 MW Santa Vitoria do Palmar wind complex in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state.

GlobalData has made available their latest market analysis report on the global power transformers titled “Power Transformers Market, Update 2015 – Global Market Size, Equipment Market Share and Key Country Analysis to 2020″.

HV-CONNEX Size 7-S is the first dry-pluggable bushing for high voltage levels up to 362 kV.

United Kingdom, Kent: A huge electricity transformer will be transported through Kent on its way to Germany for repairs.

India, Mumbai: Electrical equipment and transformer manufacturer Crompton Greaves Ltd has agreed to sell its international power business to the U.S. private equity firm First Reserve International Ltd for an enterprise value of €115 million ($126 million), according to VC Circle.

India, Tamil Nadu: 13 new substations have been proposed to be erected in Krishnagiri district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

Siemens Traction Transformers has received the first frame contract from Transmashholding (TMH), Russian manufacturer of locomotives and rail equipment.

USA, Washington D.C.: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a proposal under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act that a person importing into the United States any covered product or equipment, including power transformers, subject to an applicable energy conservation standard provide a certification of admissibility to the DOE.

Russia, Vladivostok: Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System (FGC UES), Russia’s largest electricity transmission company has revealed plans to upgrade the transformer equipment in six substations of 220-500 kV voltage class in the Far East in 2015.

Russia, Samara: As earlier announced by the French electric equipment manufacturer Schneider Electric, the company has started building a new transformer manufacturing plant in Samara, Russia.

Russia, Tatarstan: One of the oldest substations in the Tatarstan capital Kazan, 110 kV Substation South, is undergoing a major reconstruction in order to replace the aged equipment with modern, more reliable and sophisticated electrical equipment.

Ghana, Accra: Appolonia – City of Light, the mixed-use urban development located in Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana has completed the Factory Acceptance Test for the installation of power substation equipment to provide electricity to the project and its residents.