#transformers

The Treasury of Zimbabwe is set to procure 2,000 additional transformers, in order to address power transmission gaps.

Royal Smit Transformers has used Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro vessels) to ship five transformers from Belgium to the USA.

ABB has won an order worth more than $40 million to upgrade and expand the Muara Tawar combined cycle power plant in West Java, Indonesia.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has won orders from three major US utilities for its new solution to deliver hardened and bullet resistant transformers, and facilitate the protection of critical grid assets.

Germany, Dresden: Dr. Ralf Pietsch from HIGHVOLT has recently attended a meeting of the 16 CIGRE study committees for the first time since his appointment to committee chairman.

Siemens has been awarded a contract to supply power transformers for the UK’s East Anglia ONE wind farm, located in in North Sea waters.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India have signed a $48 million loan agreement to help Assam state continue its efforts to improve access to efficient and reliable power.

Russia, St. Petersburg: Russian transformer manufacturer Power Machines – Toshiba. High-voltage transformers (PMTT) has completed the manufacture of four power transformers for customers in Moscow and Western Siberia.

Germany, Lower Saxony: The operators of the wind park Etzen and Ehlbeck, UW Rehrhof GmbH & Co KG, are investing $2.2 million in the transformer station which will feed their self-produced electricity into the grid.

Transparency Market Research has made available a new market research report titled “Three Phase Transformer Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2016 – 2024”.

Brazil, São Paulo: GE has won a turnkey order exceeding $900 million with Centrais Elétricas de Sergipe S.A. (CELSE) for Brazil’s Porto de Sergipe combined-cycle power plant, which will be the largest gas power plant in Latin America.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB announced that Timo Ihamuotila has been named Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Committee, effective April 1, 2017.

USA: An executive order from President Obama on space weather has been announced this month, trying to accelerate the efforts aimed at detecting, analyzing and responding to solar storm threats that could strike the United States.

United Kingdom, Scotland: A massive power transformer is to be transported by road through Scotland’s Perthshire County.

USA, Chicago: According to the new smart grid market report published by Scalar Market Research, the smart grid market is expected to grow from $39.84 billion in 2016 and reach $83.81 billion in 2022, growing at an estimated CAGR of 13.20% during the forecast period.

Canada, Ontario: The power plant that heats and cools much of downtown London, a city in Ontario, Canada, while generating power is in for a major expansion.

USA, Minnesota: The Prairie Island nuclear plant began its 30th refueling of Unit 1, during which the plant operator plans to spend $50 million on the maintenance and new equipment.

Germany: A German heavy haulage provider has for the first time used a new heavy-duty drive unit that was launched earlier this year to transport a giant power transformer to Ibbenbüren power station.

USA, Los Angeles: Scattered transformer fires around Los Angeles left thousands of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) customers without electricity on Monday morning following the overnight rain storm.

One very important component of a power transformer is the on-load tap changer (OLTC). The principal of the Dynamic Resistance Measurement (DRM) was developed to analyze the switching process of OLTCs.

Japan, Tokyo: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it will enter the global market for voltage-sourced converters (VSC) based high-voltage direct current (HVDC) systems with a new HVDC verification facility to be built at its Transmission and Distribution Centre in Amagasaki, Japan by 2018.

Germany, Bavaria: LEW distribution network has transported a new 110/20 kV transformer to the Meitingen substation.

Mayor Dwight Lethbridge worries 200-tonne transformers will damage town roads

Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador: The mayor of Cartwright, a Sandwich Bay community in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada says his town should be compensated for the role it will play in the Muskrat Falls project as Nalcor finalizes plans to ship seven 200-tonne transformers to the work site by way of the port in that community.

Germany: German power regulation company Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen GmbH (MR) has invested in Gridco Systems, a start-up company offering next-generation power electronics devices to actively manage voltage and reactive power at the distribution circuit level, which has raised $12 million in a funding round including existing investors and MR as a strategic investor.

USA, New Jersey: Montvale officials have inaugurated a new substation from Rockland Electric Company in Montvale, New Jersey.

Kenya, Nairobi: Kenya’s first transformer manufacturing plant, established by the Chinese company Yocean Group, has been officially opened this week.

South Africa, Johannesburg: South Africa’s electricity company Eskom has announced it held a workshop to discuss the modalities of adopting natural esters as the preferred insulating fluid for transformers.

USA, Idaho: Scientists from the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have developed and demonstrated a new ballistic barrier system to protect electricity substations from potential attacks.