India, Telengana: Telengana state in India will receive funding of $6 billion from the Union Government to develop the state power sector and improve the efficiency of the electricity distribution companies, Transco and Power Generation Corporation.
A new report titled “Global Solid State Transformer (SST) in Smart Grid Technology Market Analysis & Forecast to 2021” is available.
Ukraine, Zaporyzhye: Energoatom, a Ukrainian state enterprise operating all four nuclear power stations in Ukraine, has purchased a $73 million transformer from the Ukraininan transformer manufacturer Zaporozhtransformator (ZTR).
USA, New York: The New York Power Authority (NYPA), the U.S. largest state public power organization, has received an Electric Power Research Institute Technology Transfer Award for research that sheds new light on the failure of transformer bushings.