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United Kingdom, London: Visiongain has made available a new electric power and distribution transformers market report for the period 2016 to 2026.

United Kingdom, London: The Chinese government has announced it will impose the tariff on grain-oriented electrical steel imports from the European Union, South Korea and Japan, saying imports from abroad were causing substantial damage to its domestic steel industry.

Ukraine: Ukrainian energy utility Ukrenergo has signed a contract with the national transformer manufacturer Zaporozhtransformator (ZTR) for the purchase of 22 units of power transformers and shunt reactors.

United Kingdom: Winder Power, UK’s manufacturer of power and distribution transformers, has announced the appointment of Keith Robertshaw as the Company’s Group Manufacturing Director, effective from 1 April 2016.

USA, California: Southern California Edison (SCE) plans to replace transformers, switches and cables in downtown Santa Barbara as part of an $11 million project to reduce the number of power failures throughout the city.

132/11 kV substations as part of Deira Islands project

Siemens has been awarded a contract by UAE master developer Nakheel PJSC for the turnkey construction of three electrical substations in Dubai.

Croatia, Zagreb: KONČAR – MES Inc. (Small Electrical Machines) announced a collaboration with a Turkish manufacturer of power transformers, member of the Alstom group, as the company started supplying transformer cooling fans for the manufacturer in Turkey.

USA, Georgia: MIDEL natural ester-based transformer fluid (MIDEL eN) is now manufactured, sold and distributed in the United States.

United Kingdom, London: Tata Steel in India has decided to pull out of all its UK operations, including the steel factory in Port Talbot, which could put thousands of jobs at risk.

Egypt, Cairo: Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) plans to contract Alstom for the supply and installation of five transformer stations at a value of €200 million ($227 million).

USA, California: The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) board of Governors has approved 13 new projects under the 2016 electricity transmission plan.

USA, New Mexico: A team led by Sandia National Laboratories, US Department of Energy research and development national laboratory, has developed a way to make a magnetic material that could lead to lighter and smaller, cheaper and better-performing high-frequency transformers.

A new report titled “Large Power Transformers Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2014 – 2020” has been made available by Transparency Market Research.

USA, Washington D.C.: The US Department of Energy (DOE) has approved the development of the Clean Line Energy’s $2.5 billion Plains & Eastern Line transmission project in an effort to modernize the grid and accelerate the renewable energy deployment, reports EBR.

Germany: German grid operator 50Hertz will be installing phase-shifting transformers on Germany’s borders with Poland and the Czech Republic to regulate the power flow and reduce loop flows via these countries.

Ukraine, Zaporozhye: Ukrainian transformer manufacturer Zaporozhtransformator (ZTR) has been awarded a contract for the supply of a 330 kV, 180 MVA reactor to be installed at a new power substation in Postavy, Belarus.

Elia, the power transmission system operator in Belgium, has selected a permanent on-line partial discharge (PD) cable monitoring system from OMICRON for its Stevin project. This project is a major undertaking by Elia to reinforce the high-voltage (HV) power grid in Belgium’s Flanders region. Installation of the OMICRON cable monitoring system will start in the spring of 2016.

Future Market Insights has announced the addition of the “Electrical Steel Market: Global Industry Analysis and Opportunity Assessment 2015-2025″ report to their offering.

Mumbai, India: Indian engineering and construction firm Larsen & Toubro (L&T) announced its regional subsidiary has won a turnkey order to construct reactor transformers for a customer in Oman.

Siemens has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Federal Government of the Republic of Iraq to strengthen the collaboration with the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Oil & Gas for modernizing the energy infrastructure and the oil & gas sector.

United Kingdom, Lincolnshire: The Royal Air Force (RAF) was called in to help put out a transformer fire at an electricity substation that shook Grantham, Lincolnshire two days ago, which caused a major power cut leading to traffic and rail chaos and buildings being evacuated.

Russia, St. Petersburg: The joint venture Power Machines – Toshiba. High-voltage transformers (PMTT) has manufactured and tested its first 500 kV transformers manufactured for the customer PJSC FGC UES.

Finland, Helsinki: Eltel has won a substation contract for a turnkey delivery of a new 420 kV substation for Statnett, Norwegian state-owned power grid operator, reports Business Wire.

USA, Wisconsin: Solomon Corporation, a Kansas-based company specializing in the procurement of high-voltage and distribution transformers, will open a new facility in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin next month, THOnline reports.