#India

India: The board of CG Power and Industrial Solutions Ltd said the company will restate accounts after discovering significant accounting irregularities and governance lapses.

India: The UT electricity department will be revamping the power distribution system in the city of Chandigarh.

India: The state-run Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) has approved $358 M (₹25.8 B) to develop a transmission system for solar energy zones in Rajasthan.

Hartek Power has bagged an order to set up a 220/33 kV substation, which would connect 130 MW of solar power supply to grid in Jodhpur district of Rajasthan.

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL), recently shared proposals to set up transmission projects for renewable energy worth $1.8 B.

India: The Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) has said that they will replace old transformers with special design transformers by the end of June.

India: After suffering serious burns when an electricity transformer exploded in their village, two people have succumbed to their injuries.

BHEL has issued a tender, inviting quotations for supply of auxiliary transformers for the 129 MW SCCL solar PV power plants in Telangana.

Chennai, India: A fire gutted almost 12 huts in Dooming Kuppam area in Chennai, however, no casualties were reported in the incident.

India, Bengaluru: A seven year old girl was electrocuted when she touched a live transformer switch on Saturday while walking with her sister.

India: Power Grid Corporation of India selected Siemens to modernize 30-year-old high voltage direct current (HVDC) system in Madhya Pradesh state of India.

India will launch $5 B of transmission-line tenders in phases to route a targeted 175 GW of power from renewable sources into the country’s grid by 2022.

India, Gurugram: DHBVN, the Indian distribution company, has installed around 200 transformers in the city of Gurugram over the last three months.

India, Greater Noida: Three children have been burned to death in a fire triggered by a transformer blast in Greater Noida, India.

The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has published, in its National Electricity Plan (NEP), a blueprint to develop the transmission systems in the country.

India: NTPC and Power Grid Corp. of India have agreed to set up the National Electricity Distribution Company, a pan-Indian power distribution firm in an joint venture.

The ester transformer fluids producer MIDEL has opened a manufacturing plant and state-of-the-art laboratory near Mumbai, India.

UT electricity department of Chandigarh, India, has decided to build and upgrade several substations and make adjustments regarding the transmission line.

India, Mumbai: Transrail Lighting Limited, an Indian power transmission and distribution company, has won substation and railway electrification orders worth $62 million, which are now in the execution stage.

India: Indicating significant growth in the power transmission sector, India’s Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has announced an estimated investment of $38 billion in power transmission by 2022.

India, Andhra Pradesh: Public power utilities of Andhra Pradesh (AP) are striving to bring down the transmission and distribution losses from the present 9.98 per cent to less than six per cent in the coming years.

India, Tamil Nadu: GE has set up a dedicated 765 kV manufacturing line at its high voltage transmission equipment manufacturing facility at Padappai in Chennai.

India, Tamil Nadu: Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Co. Ltd. (TANGEDCO) is strengthening the distribution network in Chennai by setting up new substations and installing new transformers in existing substations.

India, Chennai: Tamil Nadu State government is expected to save millions it has been spending on the maintenance of high-voltage power transformers as the Research & Development wing of Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) is to introduce bellows in order to preserve transformer insulation.