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Greece, Athens: Two European companies and one from China have entered the race for a 24 percent stake in ADMIE, the Greek transmission system operator (TSO) that is up for privatization.

Switzerland: ABB has won orders worth around USD 40 million from Poland’s national transmission system operator (TSO) to provide transformers that will extend and upgrade the transmission grid.

INDIA: The Bhopal Energy Department has set out an action plan to upgrade its power supply with new transformers.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB presented the results of the second quarter of 2016, highlighting solid progress on profitability.

France/Ireland: France and Ireland plan to build a 1-billion-euro (USD 1.10 billion) power link to connect the two countries by 2025.

Angola, Luanda: Two power substations with the capacity for 80 MW each will be built soon within the Viana Industrial Estate, to help meet the needs of the firms there.

Switzerland: 1,100 kV UHVDC power link has the capacity to transmit 12,000 MW of electric energy over 3,000 kilometres.

Slovenia: Kolektor Etra has been granted a deal to supply transformers to the offshore substation for Dong Energy’s 448MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 project in the German North Sea.

USA: A study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory suggests that the percentage of energy from renewable sources could be increased up to 90 percent with a national grid consisting of high voltage DC (HVDC).

UAE, Dubai: On Monday around 7 in the morning a fire broke out in a transformer of the Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority (SEWA) located in Al Majaz 2.

Hawaii: Regulators denied Florida’s NextEra Energy US$4.3 billion bid for takeover of the Hawaiian Electric Companies (HECO)

Utilities implore gamers: Don’t look for Pikachu at substations

A new report titled “Medium Voltage Transformers Market: Global Industry Analysis and Opportunity Assessment 2015-2025” has been made available by Future Market Insights.

A new transformer oil market report titled “Transformer Oil Market by Type (Mineral- Naphthenic and Paraffinic), by Application (Small transformers, Large Transformers, Utility & Others), & Region (Asia-Pacific, North America, Europe, ROW) – Global Trends & Forecasts to 2020” has been made available by MarketsandMarkets.

India, Hyderabad: Having held a number of meetings with Russian officials and industrialists this week, India’s Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh made an appeal for investments to one of the Russia’s largest steel companies, Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK).

Azerbaijan, Baku: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $750 million loan for the upgrade of the power distribution networks in Azerbaijan, which will benefit over 1.4 million consumers.

Russia, St. Petersburg: Russian transformer manufacturer Power Machines – Toshiba. High-voltage transformers (PMTT) has successfully tested the first four autotransformers manufactured for Volzhskaya HPP substations, which are being modernized by RusHydro.

India, Hyderabad: Toshiba Transmission & Distribution Systems India (TTDI) has won an UHV transformers order from Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL), which will be set up on a turnkey basis.

Germany, Erlangen: Together with local partners in China, Siemens will deliver the world’s first 1,100 kV converter transformers for the world’s largest and first high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission link with a transmission voltage of 1,100 kV DC, located in China.

Cameroon: French electricity producer EDF and the World Bank will assist the government of Cameroon in West Africa to fund a $1.2 billion hydroelectric project, which is said to provide power for up to a third of the country’s electricity needs.

Africa, Congo: The African Development Bank has approved an $11 million grant to the Democratic Republic of Congo to support a regional project aimed at extending access to electricity within the country as well as to neighbouring Nile Equatorial Lakes countries in the short term.

Canada, Quebec: Canadian institutional fund manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), in association with Mexican consortium CKD, plans to invest $1.83 billion in energy infrastructure projects in Mexico.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has granted a $241 million (€218 million) loan to Albania’s state-owned electricity generation company Korporata Elektroenergjitike Shqiptare (KESH) to support its restructuring and reform package.

India, Pune: Markets and Markets has made available a report titled “Pad-mounted Transformer Market by End User (Industrial, Commercial, and Residential), by Phase (Single and Three), by Rated Power (1 MVA), by Insulation Type (Dry-type and Liquid-Immersed) & by Region – Global Forecast to 2020″.