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This interview took place at the Transformers Academy on 18 March.

US: Researchers will launch new projects to enhance the reliability and resilience of the US national power grid as part of a nationwide project worth $80 M.

Canada: Ameresco has completed a 4 MW, 16 MWh energy storage project for Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO).

Hartek Power has bagged an order to set up a 220/33 kV substation, which would connect 130 MW of solar power supply to grid in Jodhpur district of Rajasthan.

India will launch $5 B of transmission-line tenders in phases to route a targeted 175 GW of power from renewable sources into the country’s grid by 2022.

Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) announced it will develop and standardize 55 substations across the country within the year.

Authorities say much needed energy won’t be able to reach the grid without major upgrades to networks in rural Victoria.

VINCI Energies has won the Société d’Electricité du Sénégal (SENELEC) contract to install five new extra high voltage transformer stations, nearly 200 km of overhead and underground EHV transmission lines, and over 100 distribution substations in various parts of the country and a regional load dispatch centre.

USA, Massachusetts: National Grid Saudi Arabia has contracted Doble Engineering Company, a subsidiary of ESCO Technologies Inc., for advanced services to support a new phase of its power grid reliability initiative, which will expand transformer health programs into additional regions.

Chile:The central grid operator CDEC-SIC launched a tender for three transmission projects requiring an estimated USD 192 million in investment.

Switzerland: ABB has won orders worth around USD 40 million from Poland’s national transmission system operator (TSO) to provide transformers that will extend and upgrade the transmission grid.

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.

A new report titled “Global Solid State Transformer (SST) in Smart Grid Technology Market Analysis & Forecast to 2021” is available.

Germany: German grid operator 50Hertz will be installing phase-shifting transformers on Germany’s borders with Poland and the Czech Republic to regulate the power flow and reduce loop flows via these countries.

USA, New Jersey: The Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in southern Ocean County, New Jersey remains shut down for the fifth day as staff work to solve the electric problem that sent it offline.

USA, Ohio: With the current move by U.S. utility companies to deliver higher and higher voltages from the grid, many schools, colleges and universities across the United States will have to replace their transformers, according to Cincinnati-based Electric Service Company (ELSCO), specializing in providing new, repaired and rebuilt transformers.