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.
Ukraine, Zaporyzhye: Ukrainian transformer manufacturer has won a contract from the national nuclear power plant operator Energoatom for the supply of an auto transformer for one of its plants.
Egypt, Cairo: Egypt will add 14,400 MW to its national electricity grid by May 2018, after completion of three combined-cycle natural gas projects to be implemented in Borolos, the New Administrative Capital, and Beni Suef, which will be modelled on the Fortuna power plant in the German city of Dusseldorf.
USA, New Mexico: Under an interagency agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has awarded a design-build substation contract at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to Gardner Zemke Mechanical and Electrical Contractors of Albuquerque.
Gambia: Gambia’s National Assembly has ratified the Multinational Loan Agreement between the Republic of the Gambia and the African Development Fund on The Gambia River Basin Development Organisation Energy Project, which includes construction of a hydro-electricity dam on the River Gambia and associated infrastructure for the evacuation of energy to four neighbouring countries.