Power Transmission & Distribution, signs a contract for the construction, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of a 132/11kV substation in the UAE.
Intertek has announced the opening of its new laboratory complex for assurance, testing, inspection and certification in Sharjah, UAE, to support the needs of the oil, power, manufacturing, gas, chemicals and many other industries.
Canada: ABB has successfully tested the Maritime Link – an HVDC link that will enable Canadian electric utility Emera to exchange electricity between the Island of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.
Doble Engineering Company announced it has entered a strategic alliance with DNV GL, a global quality assurance and risk management company, to deliver streamlined and centralized testing data for customers in substation maintenance, testing and asset management.
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine: Bureau Veritas, a global company engaged in testing, inspection and certification services, announced it has acquired a majority shareholding in Lubrication Management SL (previously the industrial oil analysis Business Unit of IK4-TEKNIKER), a European oil analysis company.
ABB has completed successful testing of the low and high voltage units of the world’s most powerful ultrahigh-voltage direct current (UHVDC) transformer.
Russia: Transneft-Vostok has completed testing of two transformers, designed specifically for the ESPO-1 (Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean oil pipeline).
United Kingdom: Centrifugal pump maker SPP Pumps has opened a brand new transformer oil manufacturing and testing facility at its Gloucestershire base in the UK.
India, Chandigarh: The Chandigarh-based engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company Hartek Power has commissioned a 40 MW substation project near Banmore in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh.
Russia, Yekaterinburg: Yekaterinburg Electric Grid Company (EESK) has successfully completed the testing of an autotransformer with the automatic fire extinguishing system at the 220/110/10 kV substation Iskra.
India, Gujarat: T&R India Ltd has successfully tested their 315 MVA 400 kV autotransformer for dynamic short circuit test at the KEMA test facility in Netherlands, the company states in the press release.
Russia, Moscow: Power Machines - Toshiba High-Voltage Transformers LLC, a joint venture of Power Machines OJSC and Toshiba Corporation, completed the manufacture and testing of power transformers as part of the Power Machines project on the construction of the second stage of Blagoveshchensk thermal power plant.
France, Cadarache: After several years of research and testing, the first ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) convoy will pass through Étang de Berre today.