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Voltamp completes test of new Ring Main Unit

Mar 27, 2019
Voltamp Transformers has successfully type tested a proto unit of 11kV Ring Main Unit. Voltamp intends to commence commercial production of the Ring Main Unit (RMU) on a modest scale. The … read more »
Mar 27, 2019

EPFL develops medium-frequency transformer prototype

Feb 20, 2019
The École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has developed a medium-frequency transformer (MFT) prototype, in order to aid in the development of Solid State Transformers (SST). An SST can perform … read more »
Feb 20, 2019

GE’s Fixed Series Compensation (FSC) Systems contracts total $60 million

Feb 13, 2019
GE has won more than $60 million in contracts for it’s Fixed Series Compensation (FSC) Systems. The technology allows utilities to cost-effectively increase the power transfer capabilities of both existing … read more »
Feb 13, 2019

Trafo releases low loss cast resin transformers for African market

Feb 7, 2019
Trafo Power Solutions has made available to the African market new low loss cast resin transformers, which they say surpasses the efficiency and reliability of traditional oil-filled transformers. Trafo have … read more »
Feb 7, 2019

Con Ed strengthens emergency response with Siemens mobile substations

Feb 6, 2019
Con Edison has purchased six mobile substations from Siemens to be used for rapid emergency response in the case of storms, for example. The rapid deployment mobile substations will help … read more »
Feb 6, 2019

National Energy Technology Lab working toward improved power grid component tech

Feb 5, 2019
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) have begun the development of computer modeling methods and data sheets required to optimize soft magnetic components … read more »
Feb 5, 2019

Siemens technology to boost German grid

Feb 4, 2019
Siemens has built two reactive power compensation systems for the important Kriftel power grid node in Germany’s Rhine-Main area. The energy and engineering firm built a mechanically switched capacitor with … read more »
Feb 4, 2019

GE to consolidate company’s renewable and grid assets

Jan 31, 2019
General Electric (GE) has announced that it intends to intensify its focus on the growing renewable energy market by consolidating all of the company’s renewable and grid assets into a … read more »
Jan 31, 2019

Enel launches $1 billion green bond

Jan 17, 2019
Italian utility Enel has launched a $1 billion green bond to promote renewable energy, transmission and distribution networks, and e-mobility projects. The money will go towards the development, construction and … read more »
Jan 17, 2019

HIT ventures into Transformer Manufacturing

Jan 15, 2019
The Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) has become the first local institution to produce a working transformer certified for field roll-outs by the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority. Zimbabwe has struggled … read more »
Jan 15, 2019

Siemens develops eco-friendly mobile substation

Jan 1, 2019
Siemens has developed a mobile substation using natural ester oil at its plant in Wuhan, China. The new mobile substation has been developed as part of Siemens’ grid resilience concept, … read more »
Jan 1, 2019

Chinese park to use tourist-friendly substations

Dec 26, 2018
China’s Huangsipu Eco Park has installed eight “smart” substations accessible to tourists in order to help make them seem less “off-limits”. The Huangsipu Eco Park in Zhangjiagang has turned eight … read more »
Dec 26, 2018