#Mexico

Prolec GE plans to double its single-phase pad-mount transformer manufacturing capacity with new facility.

WEG S.A. has announced that it will invest R$1.2 billion ($244.5 million) over the next three years, to expand transformer production capacity in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia.

Mexico, El Paredon: Transformer manufacturer CHINT has successfully delivered two 115 kV power transformers to Mexico’s oil company Pemex.

Virginia Transformer has officially inaugurated its fifth manufacturing plant in North America.

Mexico, Veracruz: WEG is to develop for Nestlé an EPC project in the “switchgear” and “step-down” substations.

Mexico, Tijuana: MGM has announced the expansion of their low voltage distribution transformer factory in Tijuana, Mexico.

GE-Prolec Transformers, Inc., announced on 9 June it has signed a definitive agreement with SPX Corporation.

Enel Green Power’s 269 MW Dolores wind farm in China municipality, Nuevo León, has commenced commercial operations.

Mexico, Mexico City: WEG, Brazilian electric engineering company, was awarded an order for the supply of 241 transformers.

Abengoa received a new approval allowing the company to continue with the implementation of its business plan, so it continues to progress in in Mexico.

This restructuring takes places after a negotiation hold between Abengoa Mexico and its creditors during 2019.

Italy, Milan: Italian utility Enel SpA has decided to halt further acquisitions in Brazil for the time being as it prepares to complete asset sales of up to $1.8 billion in the second half of the year, reports Reuters.

Mexico: The first live remote monitoring system for Factory Acceptance Tests has been successfully tested and implemented in Siemens Transformers factory in Mexico.

Juan Ignacio Diaz has been appointed new CEO of Siemens Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean, effective 1 June 2018, Siemens announced in a press statement.

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.

Germany, Erlangen: Hyundai Engineering Mexico awarded Siemens a contract to install power distribution technology in a new automobile plant in Mexico being built by a Korean automotive manufacturer, KIA Motors.

USA, Oregon: Pacific Crest Transformers (PCT) announces has opened a new manufacturing facility in Monterey, Mexico, adding to the company’s overall capacity and creating more jobs at the Medford, Oregon facility.

Mexico, Mexico City: Mexico’s wind power association (Amdee) announced this month that Mexico plans to quadruple its wind power capacity by 2025, with an investment of $46 billion.

Mexico, Mexico City: Mexico’s federal utility CFE has awarded Siemens a $29.8 million substation and transmission line project in the northern state of Coahuila.

Mexico, Mexico City: Mexico’s state utility CFE has awarded a $12.5 million transmission and transformer contract for a project in Baja California state to a consortium made up of five local firms.

Spain, Bilbao: Iberdrola has been awarded an energy generation project in Mexico, the Noreste combined cycle power plant planned to be built in the municipality of Escobedo in Nuevo León state, which will have a capacity of 850 MW and require an investment of $400 million.

USA, New Jersey: Pioneer Power Solutions, a company engaged in the manufacture, sale and service of electrical transmission, distribution and on-site power generation equipment, announced that it intends to consolidate its dry-type transformer production activities to a new, larger facility located in Reynosa, Mexico.

Mexico, Monterrey: Prolec-GE has developed a new power transformer which utilizes a synthetic ester liquid instead of traditional mineral oil, aimed at improving fire safety at urban substations.

Mexico, Queretaro: Last month the German power engineering company Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen (MR) officially opened Reinhausen México S. de R.L. de C.V (RMX) in Querétaro, in north-central Mexico.

Mexico, Mexico City: The Colombian Medellin Electricity company (Edemsa) is part of the consortium which has been awarded a $140 million power contract by the Federal Electricity Commission of Mexico (CFE) to implement a project which will reduce electricity distribution losses in the State of Mexico.

Mexico, Guanajuato: Two generator step-up transformers 230 KV filled with Beta fire resistant fluid have been commissioned at the new Bajio thermoelectric power plant in Guanajuato, Mexico.

Mexico, Baja California: Following the Mexican government investment of $12.5 million into electric power infrastructure in Baja California, the eastern area of Mexicali has received a new substation in Carranza and an expansion of Carranza and Centennial power lines.