Russia, Voronezh: Novolipetsk Steel Company (NLMK) started the reconstruction of its main step-down substation, which supplies electricity to the plant’s converter, refractory, metallurgical slag processing plant and water plant.
Russia, Khabarovsk: Russia’s Federal Grid Company (FGC) will provide electrical infrastructure to the territory of advancing social and economic development a specially created advanced economic zone (TOSER), in the Khabarovsk territory.
Ukraine, Kiev: The Ukrainian National Energy Company Ukrenergo has signed a contract to expand and modernize the 750 kV Kiev substation (Kyivska) with Dalekovod, a Croatian company engaged in electrical engineering.
Qatar: State-owned utility Qatar General Water & Electricity Corporation (Kahramaa) has awarded a $519 million (€470 million) contract to Siemens for the supply of 18 turnkey substations to supply power and help to cater for increasing electricity demand.
USA, North Dakota: Minot-based Central Power Electric Cooperative has been awarded a $46 million loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development that will help finance the improvement of the energy infrastructure in North Dakota.
Canada, Saskatchewan: SaskPower, the principal electric utility in Saskatchewan province in Canada, is planning to invest more than CAD 1 billion (over USD 800 million) a year for the foreseeable future in order to renew and grow the province’s power grid, according to company’s website.
Canada, Manitoba: Manitoba Hydro, the electric power and natural gas utility in the province of Manitoba, Canada has awarded a USD 24 million (CAD 31.4 million) engineering, procurement and construction contract to a consortium led by GE’s Digital Energy to build a new, 66 kV gas-insulated substation (GIS) in downtown Winnipeg.
USA, Ohio: FirstEnergy has transported a 300-ton power transformer from the Ohio Commerce Center on Route 45 to a power substation on Highland Avenue in Lordstown, Ohio.
Sri Lanka, Colombo: The Government of Japan will grant Sri Lanka a $200 million loan for the implementation of National Transmission and Distribution Network Development and Efficiency Improvement Project.
Oman, Muscat: Majan Electricity Company has signed nine agreements worth close to $20 million for various substation projects across the company’s distribution network in the North Batina, Al Dhahirah and Al Buraimi.
India, Uttar Pradesh: Alstom T&D India has been awarded three contracts valued at around €33 million by Powergrid Corporation of India Limited (Power Grid) to supply power transformers and shunt reactors for 765/400 kV substation situated at Agra in Uttar Pradesh and spare units of 765 kV transformers and reactors as part of Eastern and Southern Region Strengthening Schemes.
USA, Pennsylvania: The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) will invest more than $570 million in infrastructure and vehicle rehabilitation projects in Fiscal Year 2015 to restore essential infrastructure that supports safe and efficient service to its more than 1.1 million daily riders.
Georgia, Tbilisi: Georgia’s Ministry of Energy has officially launched the construction of the €13 million Khorga substation in Khobi Municipality, Akhalsopeli village in western Georgia.
Russia, Amur Oblast: Russia’s Federal Grid Company (FGC) is upgrading 220 kV Blagoveshchensk and Belogorsk substations to increase the electricity supply into the distribution grid of the Amur region and the power centre of one of the main Trans-Siberian Railway stations.
Russia, Moscow: Moscow United Electric Grid Company (MOESK) has commenced works on the next stage of the reconstruction of the 220/110 kV Moscow Central substation, which includes replacement of two 110 kV transformers with new 220/10/6 kV transformers.
India, Andhra Pradesh: The indoor substation being built on the Museum Road in Vijayawada in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India dedicated for the Chief Minister’s camp office is in advanced stages of completion and is likely to be ready by August 15.
USA, North Carolina: Thousands of Duke Energy customers were left without power in Belmont, North Carolina on Monday night due to a transformer failure.
New Zealand, Waikato: A New Zeland’s utility company Powerco has invested USD 1.2 million in an upgrade of its substation at Waharoa, Waikato, which included adding a 17 MVA transformer capable of powering 8,500 households.
France, Levallois-Perret: Alstom has been awarded a turnkey contract worth approximately €100 million ($110 million) from Eletrosul Centrais Electricas S/A (Eletrosul) to integrate wind farms located at Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, into the country’s transmission grid.
USA, New Jersey: Ballistic Fire Barrier, a provider of transformer separations, substation protection and ballistic fire barriers has completed an installation of an innovative transformer ballistic fire barrier at the substation of a major U.S. utility.
UAE, Sharjah: Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority (SEWA) has announced commissioning of a new 132 KV Moeileh Substation in the industrial area of Sharjah, the third largest city in the UAE.
USA, Michigan: Construction of a new electric substation has begun on South County Line Highway near Morocco Road in Deerfield Township, Michigan, USA.
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