VINCI Energies has won the Société d’Electricité du Sénégal (SENELEC) contract to install five new extra high voltage transformer stations, nearly 200 km of overhead and underground EHV transmission lines, and over 100 distribution substations in various parts of the country and a regional load dispatch centre.
Germany: The most powerful high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transformer began its journey from the transformer factory in Nuremberg, Germany, to China.
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The government of Tanzania has received financing from the African Development Bank (AfDB) towards the cost of the regional Rusumo Falls Hydropower Transmission line component.
USA, Arizona: Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) and Southline Transmission will jointly develop a 579 km transmission line project that will stretch between southern New Mexico and southern Arizona.
Switzerland: ABB will supply an 800 MVA phase-shifting transformer to the Swiss transmission system operator, Swissgrid, for the Mühleberg substation located in the central part of the country.
South Africa: Johannesburg-based Trafo Power Solutions will supply fit-for-purpose dry-type transformers to Alphamin Resources’ Bisie tin mine located in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in a fast track project that will see the complete solution manufactured in 12 weeks.
Kenya, Nairobi: After many parts of the country suffered a six-hour blackout at the start of the year due to a technical fault in the central fields of Dandora-Nairobi North, Kenya’s Energy Cabinet Secretary, Charles Keter, revealed the steps to be taken to help prevent such widespread outages in the future.
In January 2018, Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) increased the transmission capacity of its grid by 1,400 MW by commissioning new power transformers across the country.
India, Mumbai: Transrail Lighting Limited, an Indian power transmission and distribution company, has won substation and railway electrification orders worth $62 million, which are now in the execution stage.
ABB has won an order worth more than $40 million to upgrade and expand the Muara Tawar combined cycle power plant in West Java, Indonesia.
Ukraine, Kiev: Bank Arcada is set to build a 110 kV substation in the Osokorky area of Kiev by the end of 2018.
Oman, Muscat: Larsen and Toubro in Oman has awarded Siemens with a contract for the supply of four shunt reactors to the Oman Electricity Transmission Company.
South Africa: The Eskom Board has decided to rotate current executives in the role of Interim Group Chief Executive to ensure exposure, and announced the appointment of Sean Maritz, Eskom’s CIO and group executive for information technology, as the Interim Group Chief Executive with immediate effect.
Ghana: A new 40 MVA primary substation at Hohoe in the Volta Region in Ghana has been commissioned by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
Gerhard Sturm, the founder and co-owner of ebm-papst Group, a German manufacturer of fans and motors, will transfer his membership in the ebm-papst Group advisory board to his son, Ralf Sturm, on 1 August 2017.
REINHAUSEN Group has acquired 100% of the shares of MacLean Power France SAS, the com-pany announced in a press statement.
Kenya’s national power distributor, Kenya Power, has launched a network upgrade programme aiming to provide better power supply to industrial consumers.
ABB has won a $30 million order from ScottishPower Renewables to supply two STATCOMs that will smooth out the voltage fluctuations that are an inherent feature of intermittent wind energy.
Ghana: A new 40 MVA primary substation at Hohoe in the Volta Region in Ghana has been commissioned by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
ABB has won a $20 million contract from Network Rail to provide a trackside power electronics solution for new high-speed electric trains.
Pakistan, Faisalabad: Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) will install a new power transformer at 132 kV Gojra substation, which will double its capacity.
Malaysia: Curtin University in Malaysia has received four German-manufactured three-phase cast-resin transformers for research and teaching purposes, donated by Offshore Industries Sdn. Bhd.
Siemens has won a high three-digit million euro order from TenneT TSO for a grid connection for offshore wind power plants in the German waters of the North Sea, the company announced in a press release.