#transformer

USA, Pikeville: Kentucky Power has completed two substation upgrade projects totalling about $15 million near Elkhorn City and Pikeville, bolstering reliability in eastern Kentucky.

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India: Alstom T&D India Ltd has announced the company appointed Mr. Gaurav Manoher Negi as Chief Financial Officer.

Germany: E.ON and Statoil have announced their final investment decision on the development of the 385 MW Arkona offshore wind farm, also known as Arkona Becken Südost, in the Baltic Sea, Germany.

USA, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Power & Light (PPL) Electric Utilities completed the Northeast-Pocono Reliability Project, a $350 million investment in new substations and power lines made to boost regional reliability.

Afghanistan, Kabul: The $1.17 billion CASA-1000 power transmission project will be inaugurated by the officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan next month, after the competent ministries from the four countries finalized the document and decision on the implementation of the project.

Indonesia, Jakarta: Indonesia’s state-run utility PLN will receive a $500 million loan from the World Bank aimed to support implementation of the electrification program which will bring electricity to parts of Sumatra which are yet to be connected to the national grid.

USA, California: More than 43,000 people in Berkeley, Albany, El Cerrito, Richmond and San Pablo, California experienced a massive power outage after a power transformer at an El Cerrito substation exploded on Monday morning.

India: Toshiba Transmission & Distribution Systems India (TTDI) has won a $34 million contract from Kenya Power & Lighting Company (KPLC) for the supply of around 8,000 distribution transformers made at the company’s facility in Hyderabad.

Malaysia: Malaysian transformer manufacturer Success Transformer Corp Bhd has announced the company appointed Datuk Chua Tia Guan as its chairman.

United Kingdom, Kent: A huge electricity transformer will be transported through Kent on its way to Germany for repairs.

Belgium, Brussels: Representatives from around 30 countries including China, Japan, Germany, India, the U.K. and the U.S. met with World Trade Organization, World Steel Association, and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) representatives in Brussels to seek possible solutions to the huge overcapacity that fuels the steel crisis.

As ABB’s Annual General Meeting was held yesterday, few shareholders had a full picture of the giant businesses, according to the Swedish magazine Dagens industry.

Russia, Tula: Tulenergo is upgrading the 110 kV Central substation in the city of Tula, which provides electricity to than 60% of consumers in the central district of the city.

United Kingdom, London: Following its earlier announcement of the decision to sell its poorly performing business in the U.K., India’s Tata Steel has sold its long products business assets in Europe to investment firm Greybull Capital.

USA, Queensland: Queensland’s electricity operator Powerlink is investing $15.5 million (AUD20 million) in an overhaul of a substation in the Gladstone region in Central Queensland which feeds most of Central Queensland and major industrial sites such as the Boyne Smelter and Yarwun.

Canada, Saskatchewan: SaskPower has added a second power transformer to its Fleet Street substation in the city of Regina to accommodate recent and future load growth in the eastern and northern parts of the city.

USA, Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh-based steel producer Allegheny Technologies announced the elimination of 250 jobs in the company’s flat-rolled products division.

USA, North Carolina: Multiple fire departments responded to a large transformer fire and a subsequent oil fire on Monday evening at Southern Power Plant Rowan in Salisbury, North Carolina.

USA, New Jersey: Cast resin transformer manufacturer Jinpan International Limited has announced that the company’s shareholders voted in favour of the proposal to authorize and approve the previously announced merger agreement among the company, FNOF E&M Investment Limited and Silkwings Limited.

Switzerland, Zurich: Orders worth $300 million have been placed for the supply of converter transformers for two long-distance ultra-high-voltage direct current (UHVDC) transmission links in China capable of transporting up to 10,000 MW of power at the 800 kV voltage level.

China, Baoding: Chinese transformer manufacturer Baoding Tianwei Baobian Electrical Co., Ltd., (BTW) has successfully tested a 200 MVA/330 kV phase-shifting auto transformer, independently developed for a customer in Ghana.

Russia, Khabarovsk Krai: RAO Energy System of East (part of RusHydro group) has started installation of electrical equipment in two new substations built as part of the electric power delivery system from the new power plant under construction in the city of Sovetskaya Gavan in the Khabarovsk Krai.

Germany, Frankfurt: Buyout group BC Partners is approaching potential buyers for its German power transformer maker SGB-SMIT, four years after a sale to China’s State Grid was halted by political intervention, according to three sources familiar with the matter, reports Yahoo Finance.