London/Brussels: The European Union will set a minimum price for imports of a grade of electrical steel from China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States, while retaining the right to impose tariffs, reports Reuters.
Russia, Moscow: MOESK is investing over $10 million into an upgrade of its 110 kV Lomonosovo substation located in the western part of Moscow.
Russia, Samara: Togliatti Transformer, one of the largest manufacturers of high-voltage power transformers in Russia, is enlarging its portfolio to include production of the equipment for wind power generation.
Russia, Sakha Republic: RusHydro and RAO Energy System of East have begun the installation of power transformers at the construction site of the first stage of a new power station in Yakutia, Yakutsk GRES-2.
Russia, Leningrad Oblast: Lenenergo, Russian electric power company, has begun an upgrade of its 35 kV Romanovka substation in Vsevolozhsky district in the Leningrad region.
Russia, Moscow: Moscow United Electric Grid Company (MOESK) is performing a large-scale reconstruction of the 220 kV Sviblovo substation in the north-eastern part of Moscow, with the introduction of new transformers and 220 kV gas-insulated switchgear.
Russia, North Caucasus: Stavropolenergo has completed the first construction phase of the new Beshtau substation in Pyatigorsk, Stavropol and is preparing to install the main electrical equipment.
Russia, Khabarovsk: Russia’s Federal Grid Company (FGC) will provide electrical infrastructure to the territory of advancing social and economic development a specially created advanced economic zone (TOSER), in the Khabarovsk territory.
NLMK Group, Russia’s steel-producing company has started delivering transformer steel to Siemens’ Voronezh plant in Russia.
Russia, Moscow: Moscow United Electric Grid Company (MOESK) has commenced works on the next stage of the reconstruction of the 220/110 kV Moscow Central substation, which includes replacement of two 110 kV transformers with new 220/10/6 kV transformers.
India: Yaroslav Tarasyuk, Russian Trade Representative in India, has expressed Russia’s interest in the ‘Make in India’ programme, revealing that Russian businesses can count on receiving state support for investment projects in India.
Russia, Voronezh: Siemens Transformers has successfully tested the first transformer using the liquid dielectric MIDEL 7131 at its Voronezh plant in Russia.
Russia, Lipetsk: Russia’s steelmaker NLMK may redirect a portion of transformer steel volumes from the European Union to India following the duties introduced by the European Union on supplies of Russian products.
Russia, Bashkortostan: The new Gafuri substation 110/10 kV in the Buzdyaksky District of Bashkortostan, Russia whose construction began in 2013 is planned to be put into operation in June.
Russia, Moscow: Moscow United Electric Grid Company (MOESK) is reconstructing the power substation Almazovo in Balashikha near Moscow, which supplies electricity to a large part of the city.
Russia, Altai Krai: Barnaul Grid Company will invest more than $2 million (100 million rubles) into a series of projects on overhaul and construction of new electric networks for the regional centre Barnaul.
Russia, Vladivostok: Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System (FGC UES), Russia’s largest electricity transmission company has revealed plans to upgrade the transformer equipment in six substations of 220-500 kV voltage class in the Far East in 2015.
Russia, Tatarstan: One of the oldest substations in the Tatarstan capital Kazan, 110 kV Substation South, is undergoing a major reconstruction in order to replace the aged equipment with modern, more reliable and sophisticated electrical equipment.
Russia, Moscow Oblast: JSC Moscow United Electric Grid Company (MOESK) is investing $24 million in the reconstruction of two power supply stations, Pernatovo 110 kV and Dedovo 110 kV, in the Istrinsky district.
Russia, Yekaterinburg: Uralelectrotyazhmash (UETM), one of the biggest manufacturers of large electrical equipment in Russia, has shipped its 1,000th 110 kV voltage transformer ZNG-UETM®-110.
Russia, Buryatia: The Federal Grid Company (FGC) has upgraded the 220 kV Selenduma substation in Buryati with nine new current transformers.
Russia, Moscow: ABB participated in the 21st Annual Meeting of the Association of Russian Energy Cities, Progress Elektro, held from 25-26 March in the Government House of Moscow Oblast.
Russia, Sverdlovsk: A new reserve power transformer has been successfully tested at the construction site of a new combined-cycle thermal power plant at the site of Nizhneturinskaya thermal power plant, in the north of the Sverdlovsk region.
Russia, Moscow: Moscow United Electric Grid Company completed the first phase of a large-scale reconstruction of Avtozavodskaya substation 220/110 kV, into which the company will invest $62 million (3.8 billion rubles).
Russia, St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Electric Networks (St. Petersburg ES) has commenced works on the reconstruction of 110 kV Red October substation in the Nevsky district of St. Petersburg.
Russia, Orenburg: Orenburg branch of Volga Territorial Generation Company (Volga TGC) has announced commencement of the installation of a 40 MVA power transformer at the site of the future Orsk Solar Power Plant.
Russia, Dagestan: MES South has plans to perform a series of replacement works at the revamped 330 kV Makhachkala substation in 2015.
Russia, Adygea: Kubanenergo, a Russian energy company and part of Rossetti Group, is planning to build a new Yablonovskaya substation in the Tahtamukaysky District, Adygea Republic.