Russia, North Caucasus: Stavropolenergo, a branch of the distribution grid company MRSK North Caucasus, continues works on the modernisation of the 110/10/6 kV Severnaya substation in Stavropol region, with stages three and four to get underway.
Colombia, Cali: Emcali Energy, the state-owned electricity provider in Cali, has announced inauguration of the new Cali substation Alferez I in March this year, which will provide a more reliable power supply to several districts in the south of the city.
India, New Delhi: The Avantha Group is selling the industrial division of Crompton Greaves retaining the consumer business.
Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has been awarded a $24 million Nairobi substation upgrade project by Kenya Power, the national electric utility and the country’s largest power transmission and distribution company.
Germany, Künzelsau: Ziehl-Abegg, a German manufacturer of ventilation fans and motors, including cooling fans for power transformers, has recorded an increase in global sales by 9 percent in 2014.
USA, Niagara Falls: An initiative has been launched to preserve the old transformers house at the Edward Dean Adams Power Plant in Niagara Falls, turning it into a museum.
USA, Michigan: Following the explosion that occurred at Escanaba Power Plant last week, leaving only a few items at the substation undamaged, investigations are still underway.
Austria, Styria: Austrian railways has announced that a fire broke out inside a railway tunnel under construction in the province of Styria in southern Austria.
Canada, British Columbia: The Cheakamus substation in Squamish, British Columbia, has received a $7 million upgrade which boosted its capacity by nearly eight times.
Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has signed a contract worth around $50 million with Bombardier Transportation South Africa for the supply of traction transformers and associated products for 240 freight locomotives that will form South Africa’s electric rail fleet.
Serbia, Belgrade: A new transformer station has been commissioned in the city of Vranje, southeastern Serbia, by the Serbian state-owned power distributor Elektromreze Srbije (EMS).
USA, California: Global Industry Analysts has released a comprehensive global report on power transformers “Power Transformers: A Global Strategic Business Report”.
New Zealand, Northland: A new power transformer arrived in Kaitaia as part of the multimillion-dollar reconstruction of Top Energy’s power network in the Far North, New Zealand.
USA, Rhode Island: The U.S. National Grid plans to overhaul the power system on the Aquidneck Island investing $93 million in an improvement plan to construct two new substations with five power transformers, and reconfigure two high-voltage transmission lines.
Russia, Moscow: Power Machines – Toshiba High-Voltage Transformers LLC, a joint venture of Power Machines OJSC and Toshiba Corporation, completed the manufacture and testing of power transformers as part of the Power Machines project on the construction of the second stage of Blagoveshchensk thermal power plant.
USA, Georgia: The American subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. has won an order for the supply of five power transformers from the utility Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) in Oklahoma.
Nepal, Kathmandu: The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has received the first delivery of 253 power transformers from LTL Holding of Sri Lanka under a contract signed for the purchase of 1,040 transformers.
India, Kerala: 400 kV Madakkathara substation in Thrissur, Kerala, is powering up with an addition of a new 315 MVA power transformer.
India, New Delhi: Alstom T&D India has commissioned a substation in Anta, Rajasthan, designed to assist in more efficient evacuation of electricity from three power plants in the state.
South Africa, Johannesburg: South Africa’s only nuclear power plant Koeberg has left without nearly 1,000 MW of electricity due to a technical failure in the main generator transformer.
Brazil, Sao Paulo: HIGHVOLT Prüftechnik Dresden GmbH, a German manufacturer of high-voltage and high-current testing systems, is extending cooperation with its Brazilian agency LPEng to operate the first local HIGHVOLT Service Centre worldwide.
Australia, Perth: A power transformer explosion which occurred at the busy Galleria shopping in Morley in Perth’s northeast has resulted in fatal consequences.
Afghanistan, Samangan: The German government is financing a $13 million power grid project for building two new power grids in the northern Samangan province of Afghanistan.
New Zealand, Southland: Meridian Energy, a New Zealand state-owned electricity company, is replacing two of its power transformers at the underground Manapouri power station after finding a fault with cooling units.