#India

Nepal, Kathmandu: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), the state-owned power utility, may soon import up to 220 MW of additional electricity from India.

India, Tamil Nadu: The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) is constructing new substations around the city and its suburbs to tackle the power situation during summer.

India, Pune: The new report published by MarketsandMarkets titled “Pad-Mounted Transformer Market by End User, by Phase, by Rated Power, by Insulation Type & by Region – Global Forecast to 2020” is now available.

India, Mumbai: Avantha Group Company CG has been awarded a contract from Denmark’s national electricity transmission system operator Energinet.dk to provide power transformers and gas insulated switchgear (GIS) for the Kriegers Flak wind farm project in the Baltic Sea.

India, Jammu and Kashmir: During a recent inspection, the Power Development Department (PDD) officials have found that over 5,000 transformers in Kashmir do not bear the names of manufacturing companies or date of their production.

India, Mumbai: An Indian power transformer manufacturer IMP Powers Ltd has successfully conducted the short circuit test at CPRI, Bangalore on four 100 MVA power transformers.

India, Mumbai: Larsen & Toubro Saudi Arabia LLC, a fully owned subsidiary of L&T, has won an order valued at $108.2 million for the construction of five 132 kV substations at Hail area from the National Grid, Saudi Arabia, a subsidiary of Saudi Electricity Company.

India, Uttar Pradesh: The capacity of Sarojini nagar substation in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh has been enhanced to 520 MVA with the installation of a new power transformer.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has granted $1 billion in financing to India’s national transmission company Power Grid Corporation of India (Powergrid) to fund renewable energy transmission and grid expansion projects.

India, New Delhi: India is getting ready to impose more curbs on steel imports, including introducing a safeguard duty, after a 20% import tax failed to contain losses for producers such as Steel Authority of India.

India, Agra: Marson’s Electrical Industries, an Indian manufacturer of power and distribution transformers, has received the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) accreditation for its test lab, making it the only company in Eastern India with this accredit recognition.

India, Mumbai: Power Transmission & Distribution division of Larsen & Toubro Limited has won substation construction orders in the international and domestic markets worth $115 million in total.

India, Chandigarh: Chandigarh Administration is planning to upgrade its ageing electricity infrastructure and improve power supply in the city with proposed projects worth around $23 million to be implemented in a period of three years.

India, New Delhi: Indian transformer manufacturers have expressed concerns about uncertainty over the government’s plan to introduce mandatory quality certification for power transformers from next February, with concerned labs and agencies unable to expedite work for issuing necessary licences to manufacturers in time.

India, Chandigarh: Haryana state government has revealed plans of commissioning and expansion of hundreds of new and existing substations of various capacities in the next three years in order to strengthen the power transmission and distribution system in the state.

India, Vadodara: ABB India rolled out the first 800 kV converter transformer manufactured at their Vadodara facility in the state of Gujarat for the ultra-high voltage direct current (UHVDC) transmission link.

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).

Siemens has recently received three orders from the Power Grid Corporation of India, for the total of 28 500 MVA/800 kV autotransformers and spare parts, the company announced in the press release.

India, Nagpur: Wise Guy Reports has made available a new research report titled “Power Transformers Market, Update 2015 – Global Market Size, Equipment Market Share and Key Country Analysis to 2020”.

India, Kolkata: A massive fire broke out at the Dum Dum substation of Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (CESC) in Kolkata city, West Bengal on Friday.

India, Odisha: Alstom T&D India has been awarded contracts by Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Limited (OPTCL) worth close to $23 million for the supply of a 400/220 kV air-insulated substation (AIS) as well as gas-insulated substation (GIS) in Odisha.

United Kingdom, London: ReportBuyer has made available a new report titled “”India Power & Distribution Transformers Market Forecast & Opportunities, 2020″.

Alstom has manufactured and delivered India’s first 800 kV high voltage direct current (HVDC) power transformer for the Champa-Kurukshetra Ultra High Voltage Direct Current (UHVDC) Phase 1 link.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has won orders worth $23 million from Power Grid Corporation of India to supply 765 kV ultra-high voltage power transformers for substations in the northern Indian states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.

India, Maharashtra: Tata Power Company, a Mumbai-based Indian electric utility company, has announced that two of India’s first 25 MVA natural ester filled transformers were recently installed in Mumbai.

India, Punjab: 400 kV Dhuri substation set up and commissioned by Power Grid on turnkey basis, has been forced to shut down, allegedly due to problems in 500 MVA power transformers.

India, Jammu and Kashmir: Private companies in the Kashmir Valley have ceased to repair damaged transformers after Power Development Department (PDD) failed to clear their pending bills.

India, Nagpur: The Central Government of India and the Maharashtra State Government have decided to invest around $252 million in a major boost to power infrastructure in Nagpur district in order to improve the quality of power supply in urban and semi-urban areas and help Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (MSEDCL) provide agricultural pump connections to farmers.