#Spain


$8.6M transformer project for the Canaries and Balearics completed

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.

Isolux Corsan energises one GIS and five AIS substations in India

Spain, Madrid: Isolux Corsan, through its subsidiary Isolux Infrastructure, has energised Rewa Road 400 kV GIS substation in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India as part of the construction project of 1,530 kilometres of EHV transmission lines with voltages of 765 kV and 400 kV.

Iberdrola wins contract to build $400M power plant in Mexico

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.

Large transformer transported from the port of Malaga

Spain, Malaga: The Dutch ship Pacific Dawn mini heavy lifter, a medium sized cargo vessel used to transport special heavyweight goods, arrived to the Spanish port of Malaga to load a 189-ton power transformer and 41 bulky wooden boxes, the shipment bound for a power plant in Scotland.

Iberdrola to acquire UIL Holdings for $3 billion

Spain, Bilboa: Spanish utility Iberdrola will buy a Connecticut-based UIL Holdings Corporation for about $3 billion to create a new listed power and electric utility and expand in the United States.

Revamped Basquen substation powered up with new transformer

Spain, Basque: Iberdrola, the Bilbao-based Spanish public electric utility, has opened Pontika substation in the town of Errentia after the substation received a €2.5 million ($2.8 million) capacity and technological upgrade.

Isolux Corsan wins Saudi substation contract

Saudi Arabia, Al-Hasa: Saudi Arabia’s National Grid has awarded a $40 million contract to the Spanish engineering and construction firm Isolux Corsan for the construction of two 115 kV substations in Al Hasa.