#India

India: Indian transformer manufacturer Marsons is looking to overcome the working capital constraints by means of a strategic investment into the organization.

India: Transformers and Rectifiers (India) has won a transformer order worth $15.3 million from Power Grid Corporation of India.

India: Tata Power and ICICI Venture have launched a new platform company to invest in Indian power projects over the next two-three years.

India: The new director of the Power Division of the electrical equipment and transformer manufacturer BHEL, Akhil Joshi, has paid his maiden visit to the BHEL manufacturing facility in Bhopal.

India, Jharkhand: Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das claims he would ensure power supply to every village in the coming years, but many parts of the state of Jharkhand remain in darkness due to transmission loss and damaged transformers.

India: T&R India has been awarded a contract worth $10 million from Power Grid Corporation to supply 765 kV ultra-high voltage shunt reactors for substations in the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan.

India, Nagaland: The Mokokchung Town Lanur Telongjem (MTLT) has expressed concerns about the power crisis in Mokokchung in their charter of demands sent to the Power Department on 24 August 2016, in which they request the upgrade of the existing substation and the addition of a new one.

India, Andhra Pradesh: A major transformer fire broke out at the Tadikonda substation in the Guntur district late on Wednesday evening leaving most parts of the district in darkness.

India, Mumbai: Siemens Ltd. has received an order worth approximately $32.5 million from Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Limited (PGCB) for a regional power exchange project.

India, Kerala: New power transformers are being installed at Mattannur substation in Kannur district, which will provide power to the newly built Kannur International Airport and other infrastructure in the area.

India, Noida: The power department is in the process of installing distribution transformer meters on the transformers across the city in an attempt to monitor electricity theft in the city.

INDIA: The Bhopal Energy Department has set out an action plan to upgrade its power supply with new transformers.

India: Centre’s plan to procure electrical equipment on a mass scale has been met with resistance from states

India, Agra: The 197 crore (USD 42 million) project of Akhilesh Yadav, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, began a couple of years back in the Tajganj area near the Taj Mahal.

India, Hyderabad: Having held a number of meetings with Russian officials and industrialists this week, India’s Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh made an appeal for investments to one of the Russia’s largest steel companies, Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK).

India, Hyderabad: Toshiba Transmission & Distribution Systems India (TTDI) has won an UHV transformers order from Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL), which will be set up on a turnkey basis.

India, Pune: Markets and Markets has made available a report titled “Pad-mounted Transformer Market by End User (Industrial, Commercial, and Residential), by Phase (Single and Three), by Rated Power (1 MVA), by Insulation Type (Dry-type and Liquid-Immersed) & by Region – Global Forecast to 2020″.

India, New Delhi: T&D India has requested shareholders’ approval to change the name of the company to GE T&D India, after the company has been taken over by GE.

World Bank Group has signed an agreement to help the International Solar Alliance (ISA), consisting of 121 countries led by India, in mobilizing $1 trillion investment by 2030 to boost solar power generation globally.

India, Madhya Pradesh: India’s transformer manufacturer BHEL Bhopal has successfully tested a special type split winding 400 kV transformer produced for the client Singareni Collieries Company Limited.

India, Delhi: Tata Power-DDL has commissioned a 66/11 kV GIS substation at the Delhi’s commercial and industrial hub Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar (SGTN).

India, Kolkata: Indian transformer manufacturer Marsons is planning to develop centres of knowledge equipped to provide formal industrial training to individuals looking to work in the transformer manufacturing sector.

India, Kolkata: Alstom T&D India has been awarded two contracts with a total value of $30 million from Power Grid Corporation for substation projects in Madhya Pradesh.

India, Gujarat: Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) has placed a $12 million order with Siemens for the procurement of seven auto transformers to be installed at Bhuj, in the state of Gurajat.