#project

Turkmenistan, Ashgabat: A major energy project is being implemented in the Turkmen capital Ashgabat in order to improve the reliability of power supply in the capital city.

Germany: Siemens is supplying a total of 238 traction transformers to Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), UK’s largest railway operating company.

Tanzania: Government of Tanzania will commit $3.2 million towards the implementation of the rural electrification project over a period of five years.

Africa: With over 635 million people without access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa, the need for investment in the growth and development of its power sector is huge.

Tanzania’s rural electrification expansion programme is set to receive $200 million approved by the World Bank, provided by the International Development Association.

Australia, Victoria: The biggest single component of the Ararat wind farm, the USD 300 million (AUD 400 million) project in south-west Victoria, arrived to Australia from Shanghai and was travelling through Elmhurst last week on its way to the site.

Angola, Luanda: Cambambe Hydroelectric Dam (AHC) will be the site of Angola’s largest power substation, expected to be built upon completion of the construction of the second power plant.

Spain, Madrid: Spanish largest electric utility company Endesa has completed a €7.6 million ($8.6 million) improvement project aimed at ensuring reliable operation of its power plants in the Canary and Balearic Islands in the event of a failure of the main transformers.

$1.5 billion electricity transmission project in Scotland, United Kingdom will be supported by funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB)

Elia, the power transmission system operator in Belgium, has selected a permanent on-line partial discharge (PD) cable monitoring system from OMICRON for its Stevin project. This project is a major undertaking by Elia to reinforce the high-voltage (HV) power grid in Belgium’s Flanders region. Installation of the OMICRON cable monitoring system will start in the spring of 2016.

Germany: MR has completed its first retrofit project in Japan managed by the Reinhausen Solutions Co. (RJP) company, newly established at the end of 2014.

USA, New York: GE has announced the company will provide a turnkey project to Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company (Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du Gaz) for the Bouchemma power plant.

Croatia, Zagreb: KONČAR – Power Plant and Electric Traction Engineering (KET) announced the company has started preparatory work on the reconstruction project of Kutina transformer station.

Spanish engineering and construction company Abengoa has been awarded contracts to design and install two power transmission projects in Argentina at a total value of $49M.

USA, Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh-based power management company Eaton will supply critical power distribution equipment and engineering services for the MGM National Harbor, a 93,000-square metre destination resort on the Potomac River in Prince George’s County, Maryland, the company announced in the press release.

USA, Pennsylvania: Power management company Eaton has announced a contract to provide electrical distribution equipment and engineering services for an 8.2 MW community solar installation in Colorado at five sites, including Denver and Colorado Springs.

USA, Pennsylvania: The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) will invest more than $570 million in infrastructure and vehicle rehabilitation projects in Fiscal Year 2015 to restore essential infrastructure that supports safe and efficient service to its more than 1.1 million daily riders.

Alstom and the German-Dutch transmission system operator TenneT have set another key milestone in the North Sea offshore grid connection project – ‘Dolwin3’.

Thailand, Bangkok: Three Japanese companies have secured an order worth over $950 million to equip a railway linking Bangkok with nearby suburbs.

Kenya, Nairobi: Kenya Power has signed contracts worth $32.5 million with local companies to implement 12 substation upgrade projects in the country.