#United Kingdom

UK: National Grid ESO is recommending a $267 M (£203 M) investment into reinforcing the transmission networks in 2020/21.

United Kingdom: A British company Amey has been awarded a construction contract to provide power for a part of the construction of HS2, a planned high-speed railway in the UK which will directly link London, Birmingham, the East Midlands, Leeds and Manchester.

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

United Kingdom, Scotland: A slow-moving trailer carrying a giant transformer for a substation in Sutherland has completed the last leg of its journey two days ago.

United Kingdom, Scotland: Electricity giant SSE (Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks) is set to start construction on a controversial major new substation near one of Scotland’s most historic mountain passes.

United Kingdom: Babcock International has been awarded a contract to build two offshore transformer modules for SSE’s Beatrice windfarm off the Scottish coast.

United Kingdom, London: Nine 185-tonne transformers has been successfully transported from Dartford, Greater London to the Drax power station in Selby, North Yorkshire, UK.

United Kingdom, London: After UK voted to leave the EU in the national referendum, several bidders for Tata Steel’s UK business are close to abandoning talks with their Indian owner as the outcome of the EU referendum threatens to deepen the crisis surrounding the UK’s biggest steel producer.

United Kingdom: Winder Power, a UK’s manufacturer of power and distribution transformers announced the appointment of Andy Mill as its Finance Director as of 1 June 2016.

United Kingdom, London: Following its earlier announcement of the decision to sell its poorly performing business in the U.K., India’s Tata Steel has sold its long products business assets in Europe to investment firm Greybull Capital.

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

United Kingdom, London: A new global power transformer market report titled “Power Transformer Market by Rating, Medium Power Transformer, Large Power Transformer, by Type of Cooling Method, & Region – Global Trends & Forecasts to 2020” is now available.

United Kingdom, London: The U.K. government will provide 810 million pounds ($1.1 billion) for new clean-energy technologies in an effort to reduce pollution and ensure electricity supply.

United Kingdom, London: Tata Steel announced that Karl Koehler, the Chief Executive Officer of its overseas branch Tata Steel Europe, has resigned, and CTO Hans Fischer has been appointed as its new chief.

United Kingdom, Somerset: A large power transformer about the size of a cottage took to local roads near Bath in Somerset, UK over the past weekend.

United Kingdom, Leicestershire: BRUSH has completed a $7.1 million (£5 million) investment in its UK production hub to allow it to manufacture large 132 kV transformers.

United Kingdom: UK electrical steel producer Tata Steel has announced cost-saving proposals to improve the competitiveness of its UK business.

United Kingdom: General Electric (GE) and oilfield services company Petrofac Ltd. have been awarded a $157 million contract to build and install a turnkey power system for the 336-MW Galloper offshore wind project in British waters.

United Kingdom: Centrifugal pump maker SPP Pumps has opened a brand new transformer oil manufacturing and testing facility at its Gloucestershire base in the UK.

United Kingdom, Suffolk: Last week three enormous electrical transformers were transported by road from Lowestoft docks to Sizewell, the slow-moving convoys causing disruption over three days on the B1122 as it made its way through small villages.

United Kingdom, West Yorkshire: Winder Power, Pudsey-based manufacturer of power and distribution transformers has recently completed a project with e.on Energy UK for the manufacturing and installation of a 50 MVA generator transformer for the company’s Brunner Mond soda ash works in Winnington.

United Kingdom, London: After Tata Steel’s workers headed to Westminster to lobby British parliamentarians ahead of a House of Commons debate on steel industry, the government has pledged to help the struggling British steel industry compete with foreign rivals by backing measures which include lowering of energy costs and reducing business rates, according to The Guardian.

United Kingdom: Megger has launched new MTO250 transformer ohmmeters specifically designed to measure the resistance of all types of magnetic windings, and with the capability of testing two windings simultaneously.

United Kingdom: Marine service provider, Marine and Towage Services Group Ltd (MTS) and specialist shipping firm Robert Wynn & Sons Ltd. (Robert Wynn) have been working on a complex charter to deliver transformers from Rotterdam, Netherlands to Hunterston on the West Coast of Scotland.

United Kingdom, Liverpool: Two 200-ton transformers have been delivered as part of Dong Energy’s Burbo Bank extension project, which will extend the existing farm located on the Burbo Flats in Liverpool Bay at the entrance to the River Mersey in North West UK.

United Kingdom, London: After the transformer oil refiner Hydrodec Group PLC announced commissioning of the rebuilt, improved and expanded oil refinery in Canton, Ohio, USA, in June this year, the company has reported a successful return to the US transformer oil market with sales of its oil to the US and Mexican markets.

United Kingdom, Scotland: EDF, the French owners of Scotland’s two remaining nuclear power generators, are investing $46.5 million (£30 million) in a round of scheduled maintenance on Hunterston B in Ayrshire in a major one-off investment.

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