USA, West Virginia: Mon Power has completed a new substation and power lines that will provide electric service to a new Marcellus shale gas facility under construction in Doddridge County, West Virginia.
The Philippines, Cagayan De Oro City: National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has successfully energized its newly upgraded Opol Substation in Misamis Oriental to address the load growth in North Mindanao.
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Austria, Klaus: With TESTRANO 600, OMICRON has developed the world’s first portable, three-phase test system, which supports all common electrical tests on power transformers.
USA, Tennessee: The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) had to shut down indefinitely Unit 2 reactor of its Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant following a fire at the switchyard of the plant.
Brazil, Recife: At least three fire engines worked to put out the transformer fire at a substation owned by the Brazilian power company Energy Company of Pernambuco in the Peixinhos district of Olinda, north of Recife.
USA, North Carolina: Siemens has delivered three of its new mobile resilience transformers to Westar Energy, an energy company in Kansas.
Pakistan, Multan: Multan Electric Power Company (MEPCO) is installing a 40 MVA power transformer at the 132 KV Lodhran T-II grid station in order to resolve the complaints of low voltage.
Tanzania: Government of Tanzania will commit $3.2 million towards the implementation of the rural electrification project over a period of five years.
Switzerland, Zurich: ABB is supplying two new 400 kV substations for the Pen y Cymoedd wind energy project, being developed in south Wales by Vattenfall.
Kenya, Nairobi: Kenya Power and Toshiba Transmission & Distribution Systems (India) Private Limited (TTDI), a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a distribution pilot project.
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.
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France, Paris: Last week in Paris, Eskom’s technology master specialist, Dr Rob Stephen, was elected President of Cigre, an international council on large electric systems.
Egypt, Cairo: The Egyptian parliament has approved Egypt and Saudi Arabia’s cooperation agreement, which will see the connection of the two country’s national electrical grids.
USA, Texas: Priority Power Management (PPM), a Texas-based energy management and consulting services firm, has successfully completed the development and energization of a new high voltage substation for Endeavor Energy Resources south of Midland, Texas.
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.
Nigeria: Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has revealed it will need $7.5 billion to boost electricity supply and build onto its existing transmission network.
Pakistan: The Asian Development Bank has approved an $810 million loan to develop Pakistan’s power transmission system.
USA, Texas: A transformer fire at a CenterPoint Energy substation in northwest Harris County led to a power cut to approximately 75,000 customers.
USA, West Virginia: To help enhance service reliability for customers, FirstEnergy Corp. is implementing distribution and transmission infrastructure projects totalling approximately $238 million in Mon Power’s 34-county West Virginia service area.
USA, Florida: Several transformers caught fire at the Florida Power & Light (FPL) facility in West Miami-Dade on Tuesday afternoon, leaving several thousand people without electricity.
Finland, Helsinki: Eltel has recently signed five new substation and overhead line contracts in Finland with Fingrid, Caruna and Elenia, respectively, at the total value of $20.3 million (€18 million).
Australia has blocked the sale of the New South Wales electricity provider, Ausgrid to two Chinese companies citing security concerns.
World Bank has approved a $209 million financing programme that will enable the implementation of a six-year Rural Electrification Expansion Programme in Tanzania.