#substation

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.

France, Paris: Alstom Grid and National Grid SA of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) under which the two companies will cooperate in developing and advancing electricity infrastructure in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on a long-term basis.

Tanzania, Dar es Salaam: The Tanzania Electricity Supply Company (TANESCO) has recently received a $38 million grant from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to build new substations, expand the existing ones and construct new interconnections.

France, Levallois-Perret: Alstom has been awarded a €260 million ($278 million) contract by Transmisión Eléctrica del Norte (TEN), a subsidiary of Chile-based electric company E-CL, to supply four turnkey substations for Chile’s first interconnection system, the Mejillones – Cardones Transmission line.

Tajikistan, Dushanbe: The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted €70 million loan to Tajikistan to fund the construction of a 500 kV power transmission project, which will interconnect electricity networks of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.

India, Mumbai: Bajaj Electricals, a consumer electrical equipment manufacturing company, has secured three new orders from Odisha Power Transmission Corporation (OPTCL) worth over $13 million.

USA, Ohio: The Illuminating Company, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., is completing construction of a new approximately $3 million substation in Avon to help enhance customer service reliability and meet the future demand for electricity in the area.

USA, Iowa: Alliant Energy crews are still cleaning up after a transformer exploded Thursday afternoon at a substation in North Liberty, Iowa, shutting off power to 4,200 customers in the North Liberty area for several hours.

Russia, Leningrad Oblast: Gatchina Electric Networks, a branch of the Russian electric power distributor Lenenergo, has completed reconstruction works on the 110/35/10 kV Ryabovo substation, located in the urban locality southeast of Saint Petersburg.

Venezuela, Caracas: The National Electricity Corporation CORPOLEC has completed an upgrade of Boyaca Substation in Caracas in order to improve electricity supply in central Caracas.

Russia, Moscow: Moscow United Electric Grid Company (MOESK) is reconstructing the power substation Almazovo in Balashikha near Moscow, which supplies electricity to a large part of the city.

Argentina, Buenos Aires: The works on the expansion of Lujan’s transformer station II in the Buenos Aires province have been completed, helping increase the energy power in the city.

Russia, Tatarstan: One of the oldest substations in the Tatarstan capital Kazan, 110 kV Substation South, is undergoing a major reconstruction in order to replace the aged equipment with modern, more reliable and sophisticated electrical equipment.

USA, Pennsylvania: FirstEnergy Corp. has nearly completed construction of a new substation in Elk County, Pennsylvania, that will include voltage-regulating equipment designed to reinforce the electric system and enhance service reliability for West Penn Power and Pennsylvania Electric Company (Penelec) utility customers.

Dominican Republic, La Vega: Edenorte, a Dominican government-owned power distribution company is installing a new power transformer at the Palmarito substation in the city of La Vega.

New Zealand, Southland: Invercargill, New Zealand’s and the world’s southernmost city might soon power up with an upgraded substation as independent commissioner is to consider a planned substation upgrade in its residential area.

Argentina, Catamarca: Catamarca Province Governor and president of the local energy company EC SAPEM oversaw the work on the installation of a 20 MVA transformer at the South transformer station located in the province capital San Fernando del Valle.

USA, Ohio: FirstEnergy is building a $1.2 million substation in Brunswick, Ohio, that will support future growth and reduce outages, the company says.

USA, Alabama: Athens City Council has decided to build a new substation in order to ensure there is enough power for the growing city needs.