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Russia, Lipetsk: Russian utility company Lipetskenergo is investing close to $4 million in the reconstruction of a Lipetsk Railway Substation.

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.

Intense Research has added a new report titled “World Transformer Core Market – Opportunities and Forecasts, 2014 – 2022” to their offering.

USA, Pennsylvania: Firefighters battled a blaze at a Lehigh Valley natural gas power plant for hours after transformer explosion sparked a fire at the facility on Sunday evening.

General Electric (GE) has received a contract to supply 16 power transformers for installation onboard powerships which are being built by Karadeniz Energy Group affiliate Karpowership in Turkey.

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.

Germany: Siemens is supplying a total of 238 traction transformers to Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), UK’s largest railway operating company.

South Africa: Eskom’s coal-fired power station, Medupi, synchronised its Unit 5 to the national power grid, becoming the second of the power station’s six units to come on stream, the utility noted.

Researchers at the Switzerland’s Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have found a way of looking inside the iron core of transformers, a significant step towards understanding how transformers work today and in the development of more efficient transformers in the future.

USA, Wisconsin: Modine Manufacturing Co., a provider of thermal management technology and solutions, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Luvata Heat Transfer Solutions (HTS), a U.S. manufacturer of transformer coolers and other products for the HVACR market.

RnR Market Research has added to their offering a new report on distribution transformer market and forecasts to 2021.

Midel-insulated 160 MVA-transformer for Moscow in the testbay at the transformer plant in Voronezh.

Australia, Sydney: Two men have suffered burns after an explosion occurred at the electricity substation on Southdown Place in Airds in Sydney’s south west.

Wise Guy Reports has added a new report titled “Electrical Transformer Market Demand, Growth, Opportunities and Analysis of Top Key Player Forecast to 2021” to its offering.

Cevian Capital, an activist hedge fund and the second largest shareholder of ABB, continues to push for a split of the engineering giant, according to Swedish media.

NOJA Power’s distributors RWW Engineering has installed two OSM automatic circuit reclosers as part of a compact mobile substation deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to achieve full transformer primary protection.

Afriguide has moved a faulty transformer from South Africa to Brazil for repair.

USA, Florida: For the second time in 12 days, one of Florida Power & Light transformers caught fire.

ABB is delivering a range of high-efficiency transformer products for the world’s most energy-efficient pulp mill, located in Äänekoski, central Finland.

France, Paris: GE has successfully commissioned back-to-back high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter facilities for the Brazil-Uruguay interconnection project, as well as extended and equipped existing substations for Interconexiones del Sur (ISUR).

With ageing fleets across the globe and growing energy demands, utility providers are under increasing pressure to implement new technologies that can enhance transformer safety and operating performance. To help support the industry in minimising unplanned outages, MIDEL has written a whitepaper examining the risks associated with power and distribution transformers, and looking at how these can be mitigated.

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.

USA: GE announced it will be joining with the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) to fund advanced technology solutions to help transform global energy systems.

Croatia, Zagreb: Several transformer stations owned by the Croatian Distribution System Operator (HEP) will be reconstructed across Croatia after five contracts have been signed with KONČAR – Power Plant and Electric Traction Engineering (KET).