Germany: TransnetBW, a transmission network operator in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, recently installed a 420 kV power transformer in one of its substations in southwest Germany that is cooled and insulated with natural ester fluid.
Germany, Gambach: Two large power transformers have been delivered at the new substation being built in Gambach by the German utility company Bayernwerk.
Germany: Siemens is supplying a VB1 high-current switchgear with vacuum switching technology and the high-current supply unit for production for the world’s most climate-friendly, energy-efficient aluminium smelting plant being built on Norway’s Karmøy peninsula.
Germany: Siemens is supplying a total of 238 traction transformers to Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), UK’s largest railway operating company.
Germany: Siemens has successfully type tested the first 132 kV 72/90 MVA power transformer for Iraq that will serve for the stabilization of the country’s national power grid.
Germany: For the first time, a shunt reactor with voltage range of 400 kV and a control range of 50–250 MVAr, has been successfully tested.
Germany, Erlangen: Together with local partners in China, Siemens will deliver the world’s first 1,100 kV converter transformers for the world’s largest and first high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission link with a transmission voltage of 1,100 kV DC, located in China.
Germany: A 240-tonne power transformer has been delivered from Halle, Leipzig to Grünstädtel by rail, using a historic locomotive and steam engine from the Deutsche Reichsbahn.
Poland: The first phase-shifting transformer between Poland and Germany has been put in operation at Mikulowa station in Poland.
Germany, Erlangen: Siemens has received a $147 million (€130 million) order from Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB), for an HVDC (high-voltage direct-current) back-to-back link to connect the power supply networks of India and Bangladesh.
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.
France, Paris: GE has announced it recently introduced the first environmentally-friendly transformer designed for railway applications in Germany.
Germany, Hamburg: Siemens has received a further order for Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd. (BOWL), from Scotland.
Germany, Erlangen: Hyundai Engineering Mexico awarded Siemens a contract to install power distribution technology in a new automobile plant in Mexico being built by a Korean automotive manufacturer, KIA Motors.
Germany, Erlangen: Siemens has been awarded an order by the Electricity and Water Authority (EWA) in Bahrain for the upgrade of energy infrastructure in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Germany: Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen (MR) launched a new generation of on-load tap-changers for voltage regulation distribution transformers with the world premiere held at the CWIEME Fair in Berlin yesterday.
Germany: wpd has begun construction of offshore wind farm in Nordergründe in German North Sea, laying first monopile deep foundation at the 111MW project.
Germany: E.ON and Statoil have announced their final investment decision on the development of the 385 MW Arkona offshore wind farm, also known as Arkona Becken Südost, in the Baltic Sea, Germany.
United Kingdom, Kent: A huge electricity transformer will be transported through Kent on its way to Germany for repairs.
Belgium, Brussels: Representatives from around 30 countries including China, Japan, Germany, India, the U.K. and the U.S. met with World Trade Organization, World Steel Association, and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) representatives in Brussels to seek possible solutions to the huge overcapacity that fuels the steel crisis.
Germany, Frankfurt: Buyout group BC Partners is approaching potential buyers for its German power transformer maker SGB-SMIT, four years after a sale to China’s State Grid was halted by political intervention, according to three sources familiar with the matter, reports Yahoo Finance.
Germany: Siemens has successfully tested and delivered the first units of distribution transformers for a German transmission grid operator Netze BW insulated with Midel eN natural ester.
Germany: German grid operator 50Hertz will be installing phase-shifting transformers on Germany’s borders with Poland and the Czech Republic to regulate the power flow and reduce loop flows via these countries.
Germany: Siemens Traction Transformers has received an order to manufacture and deliver traction transformers for 83 trains for Rhine-Ruhr Express (RRX) in Germany to launch the new Desiro HC platform.