Serbia, Belgrade: Serbian national electric utility company EPS has awarded an $8.6 million (€7.7 million) contract to the Siemens local unit for the construction of a new transformer station in one of the central districts of the Serbian capital.
India, Uttar Pradesh: Lucknow Electricity Supply Administration (LESA) has approved installation of 108 new transformers in the city of Lucknow in order to respond to increasing consumption of electricity in the city.
Oman, Muscat: Oman Electricity Transmission Company (OETC) has signed agreements worth $638 million for the development and expansion of the sultanate’s electricity distribution grid.
USA, California: After a truck hit a power pole on Mulholland Highway in Calabasas, Los Angeles, causing it to fall and a transformer to explode, the transformer ignited the fire that forced at least 5,000 people to evacuate their homes.
USA, New York: PowerBridgeNY, a proof-of-concept center (POCC) program which is advised by the New York Academy of Sciences and provides early-stage investments and services to help inventors and scientists turn their high-tech, clean-energy ideas into a successful business, has helped establishment of a new company which has designed a new green transformer.
USA, Maryland: Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) will invest $4 billion during the next five years in the power system upgrades and expansions in order to ensure fewer power outages and faster restoration of power when outages occur.
RUSSIA, Moscow: French transformer manufacturer Schneider Electric is preparing an investment contract to set up new production facilities and additionally localize products at existing assets in Russia.
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.
Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has been awarded an $11 million contract from the Indonesian state-owned utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) to extend existing substations across Indonesia in order to strengthen reliability of its Java-Bali transmission and distribution networks and meet the growing demand for power in Java.
Zambia, Lusaka: Zambia’s Electricity Supply Corporation (ZESCO) will receive a term loan worth $60 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Standard Chartered, a British multinational banking and financial services company.
USA, Massachusetts: With Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts shutting down permanently in mid-2019, the site is being considered by another energy producer for the construction of a new power substation to be built as part of the $1.5 billion sub-Atlantic transmission project.
Canada, British Columbia: Two new power transformers have been delivered to the site of the Big Bend substation being built by BC Hydro in south Burnaby, British Columbia.
USA, Minnesota: Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) authorized a call for bids for an addition of a power transformer and associated improvements to the South Side Substation in New Ulm, Minnesota.
Germany, Künzelsau: The Künzelsau-based fan manufacturer Ziehl-Abegg is constructing a new building in the Hohenlohe Business Park in Baden-Württemberg for the manufacture of energy-efficient electric drives and fans.
The Philippines, Manila: The National Grid Corportion of the Philippines (NGCP) has upgraded its Tuguegarao substation in order to accommodate the growing demand coming from a new airport and several local businesses in four provinces in the Northern Luzon.
Kosovo, Pristina: Kosovo Electricity Distribution and Supply Company (KEDS) has announced a €300 million investment in the national electricity distribution network by 2025.
Canada, British Columbia: BC Hydro has completed a major $47m expansion of the George Tripp substation in Victoria, BC, an investment forming part of a major capital plan for the improvement of the electricity infrastructure on the Vancouver Island.
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