#autotransformer

Ukraine has received a second powerful autotransformer from Lithuania.

Ukraine, Kyiv: Ukraine has received a power autotransformer from the Republic of Lithuania, installed at an HV substation of the power transmission system.

South Africa: The unit was scheduled to ship in May of this year and estimated to arrive within 60 days.

BEST has successfully tested the 450 MVA 400/161 kV autotransformers that will be the largest in the transformer fleet of Turkish Electricity Transmission Company, TEİAŞ. TEİAŞ requires a short-circuit withstand test on each new design before acceptance.

Ukraine, Zaporyzhye: Ukrainian transformer manufacturer ZTR has successfully completed testing of an autotransformer manufactured for a customer in Belarus.

Russia, Khabarovsk: Russia’s Federal Grid Company (FGC) will provide electrical infrastructure to the territory of advancing social and economic development a specially created advanced economic zone (TOSER), in the Khabarovsk territory.

Ukraine, Kiev: The Ukrainian National Energy Company Ukrenergo has signed a contract to expand and modernize the 750 kV Kiev substation (Kyivska) with Dalekovod, a Croatian company engaged in electrical engineering.

South Africa, Boksburg: ACTOM Power Transformers will be supplying three 315 MVA, 275 kV/88 kV/22 kV autotransformers for installation in the new 400 kV/275 kV/132 kV Sebenza intake substation currently under construction next to Kelvin power station near Kempton Park in the Gauteng province.

USA, New York: The New York Power Authority (NYPA), U.S. largest state public power organization, has welcomed the arrival of the first of five new autotransformers slated for the Niagara Power Project’s switchyard in Lewiston, New York State.

USA, Louisiana: Entergy is waiting on regulatory approval to start implementing the Louisiana Economic Transmission Project (LETP), a portfolio of four transmission projects designed to cost-effectively reduce congestion in the Baton Rouge industrial corridor and to increase the amount of economic power that can flow into the Amite South region.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has won an order worth around $30 million from Norwegian transmission system operator Statnett SF to supply power transformers that will help increase the capacity of the country’s central power grid, bolstering its energy security and ability to transmit more renewable energy.

Russia, Yekaterinburg: Yekaterinburg Electric Grid Company (EESK) has successfully completed the testing of an autotransformer with the automatic fire extinguishing system at the 220/110/10 kV substation Iskra.

India, Mumbai: Alstom T&D India has been awarded a contract worth approximately €16 million ($18 million) by Powergrid Corporation of India Limited (PowerGrid) to supply ten 765 kV 500 MVA 1-ph autotransformers.

India, Gujarat: T&R India Ltd has successfully tested their 315 MVA 400 kV autotransformer for dynamic short circuit test at the KEMA test facility in Netherlands, the company states in the press release.

Russia, Dagestan: MES South has plans to perform a series of replacement works at the revamped 330 kV Makhachkala substation in 2015.

USA, New York State: The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has given a green light to a budget that will send $24.5 million for transformer and circuit breaker replacements in St. Lawrence County.

Russia, West Siberia: Experts at MES West Siberia will install new equipment to normalise the stress on distribution network voltage of 35 kV by March 2014.