Indonesia, Jakarta: In an effort to cater to Greater Jakarta’s rapid development, state electricity company PLN plans to invest billions of dollars in building a number of new power plants and transmission networks in the area.
Kazakhstan, Kentau: Kazakhstan’s Kentau transformer plant has assembles its first power transformer with the capacity of 80 MVA, capable of providing electricity to 10 districts in the country.
USA, Los Angeles: Scattered transformer fires around Los Angeles left thousands of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) customers without electricity on Monday morning following the overnight rain storm.
One very important component of a power transformer is the on-load tap changer (OLTC). The principal of the Dynamic Resistance Measurement (DRM) was developed to analyze the switching process of OLTCs.
USA, Utah: Last month someone with a high-powered rifle fired several shots and successfully disabled a substation owned by Garkane Energy Cooperative, leading to a day-long power outage for about 13,000 Utah residents.
Japan, Tokyo: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it will enter the global market for voltage-sourced converters (VSC) based high-voltage direct current (HVDC) systems with a new HVDC verification facility to be built at its Transmission and Distribution Centre in Amagasaki, Japan by 2018.
Germany, Niestetal: The new substation at the Sandershäuser mountain in Niestetal, Germany is taking shape, with the large power transformer from the Netherlands delivered to the site.
Future Market Insights has made available a new market research report titled “Electrical Steel Market: Rising demand for High Permeability Grain-oriented Electrical Steel to Fuel Growth: Global Industry Analysis and Opportunity Assessment, 2016-2026”.
Kenya, Nairobi: According to the statement by Kenya Power’s CEO, the national utility is currently running power projects valued at around $280 million, which will promote local transformer and electrical equipment manufacturers.
France, Cadarache: Last week a 14-metre long transformer supplied to ITER, world’s largest tokamak, by a manufacturer in China was moved to its permanent location.
Germany, Berlin: A fire broke out on 11 October on the roof of the Europa-Center, a landmark shopping centre in Western Berlin, recognizable by a rotating Mercedes-Benz star, which might have been caused by a faulty transformer, European media report.
Mayor Dwight Lethbridge worries 200-tonne transformers will damage town roads
Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador: The mayor of Cartwright, a Sandwich Bay community in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada says his town should be compensated for the role it will play in the Muskrat Falls project as Nalcor finalizes plans to ship seven 200-tonne transformers to the work site by way of the port in that community.
To better serve current and future customers in the USA and Canada, Nynas will extend its storage capacity and distribution network for naphthenic specialty oils with a depot in New Jersey, North East USA.
Germany: German power regulation company Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen GmbH (MR) has invested in Gridco Systems, a start-up company offering next-generation power electronics devices to actively manage voltage and reactive power at the distribution circuit level, which has raised $12 million in a funding round including existing investors and MR as a strategic investor.
China, Beijing: Electrical High Voltage Equipment Life Management (ELM) International Conference organized by WEIDMANN, part of the Swiss Wicor Holding AG, is to be held in Beijing from November 10-11, 2016 at the Oriental Bay International Hotel.
Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has developed, manufactured and energized a 1,200 kV ultra-high-voltage power transformer to support India’s plans to build a 1,200 kV transmission system, supplementing the existing 400 kV and 800 kV transmission grids.
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.
The October 2016 edition of Transformers Magazine is now available with an array of interesting content on some of the most topical issues in the transformers industry today.
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