Entergy Texas’ progress on $100 M reliability project
The company’s Bolivar Peninsula Reliability Project combines construction and equipment upgrades to help meet the growing electrical demand in the area.
The company’s Bolivar Peninsula Reliability Project combines construction and equipment upgrades to help meet the growing electrical demand in the area.
Caltrain energizes second power substation; in Texas, transformers are delivered with the help of a heavy haulier company; while in India, a new transformer alleviates increased electricity needs.
USA, Texas: The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) filed a notice with the Public Utility Commission for a Tier 3 transmission project.
USA, Texas: Tesla wants to sell electricity directly to customers in Texas, according to an application filed with the Public Utility Commission there.
Amarillo, Texas, USA: As Xcel Energy crews install a mobile transformer at the Lawrence Park Substation, some Amarillo residents are experiencing power outages.
ECSL, a joint venture of EC Source and Sargent & Lundy, is rebuilding 45 km (28 mi) of wooden structures on the 69 kV transmission line.
USA, Texas, Austin: Six board members of Texas’ power grid operator ERCOT have resigned.
USA, Texas, Amarillo: Xcel Energy built Hunsley Substation to improve the reliability of the distribution network and build in capacity for future growth.
USA, Texas, Manor: The Duke Energy subsidiary announced the acquisition of the 144 MW Pflugerville Solar project in Texas on 7 January.
The final phase of the Western Region Economic Project has brought a series of new substations, transmission lines and upgrades to southeast Texas.
Xcel Energy is working to complete system upgrades across Amarillo in time for peak summer demand, including completion of their new Western Street Substation.
USA, Texas, Amarillo: Xcel Energy is set to build a new substation adding capacity for new businesses and residential growth in west Amarillo.
Electric substation equipment has been donated to South Plains College to help train students in the Electrician and Power Transmission Technology program.
US, Texas; Entergy Texas has opened its China-Stowell Transmission Project — a new 40 km (25 miles), 230 kV transmission line crossing Southeast Texas.
Larson Electronics announced the release of a power transformer substation that converts 480 V AC three-phase electrical current to three-phase 208 Y/120 V AC.
Xcel Energy has invested $2.8 million in a backup power solution for communities in Texas that speeds restoration times on Xcel’s main electric feeder line.
USA, Texas: The General Electric Co. unit has provided the construction financing for 163 MW Falvez Astra wind project, which will enable the construction of the wind power plant in the Texas Panhandle.
USA, Texas: Priority Power Management (PPM), a Texas-based energy management and consulting services firm, has successfully completed the development and energization of a new high voltage substation for Endeavor Energy Resources south of Midland, Texas.
USA, Texas: A global transport of two reactors has been successfully handled by a U.S. cargo specialist from the manufacturer in Shanghai, China, to the final destination in Gail, Texas.
USA, Texas: Dallas firefighters responding to an office building fire found an electrocuted man on top of a transformer unit.
USA, New Mexico: The heaviest load ever to be transported on New Mexico public roads will be a power transformer coming through the Four Corners this week, according to the New Mexico Department of Transportation.
USA, Louisiana: Entergy is waiting on regulatory approval to start implementing the Louisiana Economic Transmission Project (LETP), a portfolio of four transmission projects designed to cost-effectively reduce congestion in the Baton Rouge industrial corridor and to increase the amount of economic power that can flow into the Amite South region.
USA, Texas: A fire involving two transformers forced evacuation of the Stonebriar Centre Mall in Frisco, Texas on Sunday afternoon.
USA, Texas: Marks Crane & Rigging, a company offering heavy haul and specialised transportation services has been engaged by SPX, a North Carolina-based manufacturer of electrical equipment, to hoist and move three large power transformers.