ABB installs 500 kV digital substation for Brazilian solar park
Brazil: ABB has completed the first 500 kV digital substation in the world for a 475 MW solar park owned by Enel Green Power Brasil Participacoes Ltda (EGPB).
Brazil: ABB has completed the first 500 kV digital substation in the world for a 475 MW solar park owned by Enel Green Power Brasil Participacoes Ltda (EGPB).
WEG SA announces that it has entered into an agreement with TSEA for the acquisition of one of its transformer plants, located in Betim, Minas Gerais, in Brazil.
Brazil: French renewable power producer Voltalia SA expects its newly finished 2 GW transmission line in Brazil to be hooked to the grid shortly.
ABB will provide Brazil’s electric power transmission company, Argo Energia, a complete suite of asset management software solutions.
156 MWp Juazeiro Solar Plant includes the first digital substation installed in Latin America, which enhances controllability and reliability.
Brazil: Brazil’s grid operator ONS recommended replacing GE’s CTH-550 transformer model after registering 53 explosions.
Brazil: The overall renewable power capacity (excluding small hydropower) in Brazil is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6% from 31 GW in 2018 to 60.8 GW in 2030.
Enel Green Power Brasil (EGP Brazil), subsidiary of Enel, recently sold three fully operational renewable plants totalling 540 MW to Chinese company CGN Energy.
The International Finance Corporation is providing a $288 M 15-year loan to UTE GNA I for the development, construction and operation of an integrated liquefied natural gas to power facility in Porto de Açu.
Terna has hired Spanish bank Santander to seek investors that could bring cash into its transmission businesses in Brazil, Peru and Uruguay.
Italy, Milan: Italian utility Enel SpA has decided to halt further acquisitions in Brazil for the time being as it prepares to complete asset sales of up to $1.8 billion in the second half of the year, reports Reuters.
India: India’s power transmission company Sterlite Power has won six new transmission concessions in the recently concluded auction for transmission projects in Brazil, which is an investment worth around $1 billion.
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.
Afriguide has moved a faulty transformer from South Africa to Brazil for repair.
Brazil, Recife: At least three fire engines worked to put out the transformer fire at a substation owned by the Brazilian power company Energy Company of Pernambuco in the Peixinhos district of Olinda, north of Recife.
Brazil: Electric equipment and transformer manufacturer WEG will supply a power transformer 275 MVA, 525 kV transformer for the 207 MW Santa Vitoria do Palmar wind complex in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state.
Brazil, Sao Paulo: Brazil’s state-run electricity company Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras SA (Electrobras) announced its plans to invest $3.38 billion ($13.16 billion reals) in electricity projects in 2016.
Brazil: Brazilian transformer manufacturer WEG has been upgrading nine 550 kV single-phase transformer following the contract signed with the electric utility company Copel.
Brazil: Brazil’s chamber of foreign trade, Camex, has reduced existing definite anti-dumping duties on the imports of non-oriented grain (NOG) electrical flat steel from China, Taiwan and South Korea.
Brazil, Sao Paolo: AES Eletropaulo, a major Brazilian power distributor in the state of Sao Paolo, will invest $130 million over the next two years to reinforce its power distribution network in the state, reports BN Americas.
Switzerland, Zurich: ABB will deliver an integrated power and automation solution for Fibria’s new pulp mill in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
Brazil: Brazil’s largest wind energy substation, the 1,200 MW SE Curral Novo do Piaui II facility, was switched on last week.
The South African electrical equipment supplier and manufacturer Zest WEG, part of Brazilian WEG Group, is looking for more acquisitions in Africa, having recently completed a transaction to buy TSS Transformers, which increases the range and scale of transformers on offer from the company.
France, Levallois-Perret: Alstom has been awarded a turnkey contract worth approximately €100 million ($110 million) from Eletrosul Centrais Electricas S/A (Eletrosul) to integrate wind farms located at Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, into the country’s transmission grid.