#substation

HVDC power transmission infrastructure to be used for a Khavda Renewable Energy (RE) zone evacuation scheme in Gujarat.

Entergy Texas develops the $110 M Bolivar Peninsula Reliability Project.

SP Energy Networks invests USD 29 M to upgrade the electricity network in Cheshire, UK.

EEP to construct a substation and transmission line in two Ethiopian regions to expand electricity access.

Tanzania signs EPC contract with Sinohydro Corp for 50 MW solar plant

Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) awarded a contract sum of $592 M (N226 B) for power supply upgrade in Nigeria.

Kenya Power and Lighting Company to construct new substations and power lines to strengthen the electricity distribution network.

USA, Texas, Dumas: Xcel Energy has completed the construction of the new Demon Substation near Dumas as a system upgrade to improve power reliability.

Germany, Saltzgitter: Salzgitter AG has commissioned Siemens Energy to build a new substation for Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH’s power supply.

China, Sichuan: China is building an ultra-high voltage substation at the highest altitude in the country so far.

ANDE has reached 60 % completion of the expansion, modernization and interconnection works of the Alto Paraná substation, located in Ciudad del Este.

Kenya’s Ministry of Energy has confirmed that a major substation that will serve Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia, is to be commissioned later this year.

India, Punjab: Hartek Power Pvt Ltd has installed and commissioned a 400 kV/125 MVAr reactor at the 400/220 kV Dhuri substation in Punjab.

Nigeria, Abuja: The Port Harcourt Water Corporation has issued a call for tenders to construct a power station and instal a 5 MVA 33 kV/11 kV power transformer.

USA, Louisiana, Carlyss: Entergy Louisiana is building a new substation in Carlyss, with four distribution powerlines to support residential growth in the area.

USA, Washington, Malaga: Chelan County Power Utility District (PUD) is building an $86 M substation to power the Microsoft data centre campus in Malaga, USA.

Transgrid has installed first batch of steel towers within a power transmission project to interconnect New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria.

New Zealand: Transpower has cancelled a grid emergency in New Zealand after Cyclone Gabrielle flooded the Redclyffe Substation on 14 February.

UK, Porthmadog: The ship transporting the transformer will be anchored off Morfa Bychan before unloading the transformer to the beach.

Nigeria, Abuja: Transmission Company of Nigeria received a 100 MVA transformer for its Katampe 132/33 kV transmission substation.

State Grid Xinjiang Electric Power Co has begun construction of a 750 kV power transmission project in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

UK, Liverpool: National Grid has connected Statskraft’s new Greener Grid Park at its 275 kV substation to the power transmission network.

Nigeria, Abuja: Nigeria is to develop new power transmission lines across the country, with its government approving a contract to activate a 132.32 kVA substation.

Philippines, Iloilo: MORE Power, Iloilo City’s electric distribution utility, has announced the energization of the 30/36 MVA substation.