MATL Receives EUB Permit to Build and Operate International Power Line
The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) has granted MATL a permit to construct and license to operate a 346-km, 230kV AC international power line (IPL) from the County of Lethbridge, Alberta to a substation near Great Falls, Montana....
Chongqing Electric Re-Conductors with 3M ACCR to Ensure Power Supply for Olympics
Chongqing Electric Power Corp. has become the second major utility in the People’s Republic of China to install the 3M Aluminum Conductor Composite Reinforced (ACCR) to boost transmission capacity on a key line without the need to build larger transmission towers...
AREVA Awarded Substation Package Contract for Terminal 3 at the New Delhi International Airport
AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution Division (T&D) India Ltd. has been awarded a contract worth approximately 40 million euros with Larsen & Toubro Ltd. – ECC Division, for the supply of a substation package for Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi. ...
AREVA to Upgrade Interconnection Between France and England
AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution Division has been awarded a 70 million euros contract by National Grid and RTE, to enhance the reliability and reinforce the availability of IFA 2000, the world’s largest subsea High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) scheme interconnecting the French and British national power systems. ...
State Growth Driving Electrical Infrastructure Projects in South Australia
South Australia's growing economy is reflected in an unprecedented workload of T&D infrastructure projects for electricity distributor ETSA Utilities. ...
Oncor Installs First Intelligent, Pulse-Closing Switch in Dallas/Fort Worth as Part of Smart Grid Strategy
Oncor installed the first IntelliRupter PulseCloser switch in the United States at a location in the Dallas/Fort Worth area last week...
American Electric Power Awards URMC and ArborMetrics Solutions Contract to Identify Transmission Line Vegetation Threats
URMC and its exclusive partner ArborMetrics Solutions has been awarded a contract by American Electric Power (AEP) to manage and control vegetation threats on the utility’s 6,000 mi of transmission lines in 12 states...
USDA Awards $1.4 Billion in Electric Loans
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has announced $1.4 billion in loans to build new distribution lines and make system improvements for more than 73,413 new customers and finance the construction and repair of 6,206 miles of distribution line. ...
NorthWestern Energy to File Major Facility Siting Document for Mountain States Transmission Intertie
NorthWestern Energy has submitted the Mountain States Transmission Intertie (MSTI) Major Facility Siting Application (MFSA) with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). ...
Sargent & Lundy and Horizon Wind Energy Contract to Interconnect Wind Farms
Horizon Wind Energy has selected Sargent & Lundy LLC to design the 345-kV interconnection switchyards, the 345/34.5-kV project substations, the 345-kV transmission lines and 34.5-kV underground collector systems for the first phases of the Top Crop Wind Farm project in Illinois and the Meadow Lake Wind Farm in Indiana. ...
AREVA Awarded Largest 400/220 kV Switchyard with Transformers Contract in India
AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution Div. (T&D) in India has announced the signing of a 19 million euros (Rs. 1,250 MINR) order with Up Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd. for what is expected to be the largest 400/220-kV turnkey switchyard with transformers order associated with a generating station ever built in India. ...
Prysmian to Supply Cables for the Offshore Greater Gabbard Wind Farm in UK
Prysmian has been awarded by Fluor Ltd a strategic contract worth a total value of 93 million euro, for the supply of high technology cables for the Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm project under development by Airtricity, the renewable energy arm of Scottish and Southern Energy Plc (SSE). ...
Shaw to Divest Transmission and Distribution Business
The Shaw Group Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to sell substantially all of the assets of Shaw Energy Delivery Services, Inc. (EDS) to Pike Electric, Inc.,...
AREVA Invests 6 M€ to Double Capacity on its Mönchengladbach Production Site
On June 6, AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution division inaugurated the new production hall of its Power Transformer Plant located in Mönchengladbach, Germany (Düsseldorf region), in the presence of its Chairman and CEO Philippe Guillemot. ...
ABB Launches Expanded Power Transformer Operations at South Boston, VA
ABB has completed a major expansion of its small power transformer operations in South Boston, Virginia...
ATC Gets Approval for High-Voltage Connection to Regional Generation Sources
Following a year-long regulatory review, the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin gave American Transmission Co. its verbal approval to move forward with the construction of the Paddock-Rockdale project, a new high-voltage electric transmission line in south central Wisconsin. ...
Transpower Proposes HVDC Pole 1 Replacement
Transpower, New Zealand, submitted an investment proposal with the Electricity Commission on May 2, 2008 to replace Pole 1 of the HVDC inter-island link...
Con Edison Announces New Electric Delivery Investments
Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc. (Con Edison) announced that the company is filing new electric rate and investment plans with the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) to begin April 1, 2009...
Progress Energy Florida Selects Preferred Area for Power Lines
Progress Energy Florida has selected a "preferred corridor" for potential transmission lines that predominantly follows the path of existing lines across nine Central Florida counties, minimizing the impact on the community and the environment...
BC Transmission to Deploy 3M ACCR in Cross-Water Upgrade for Vancouver Island
BC Transmission Corp. (BCTC), the transmission system operator for the province of British Columbia, will install 3M’s lightweight, high-capacity electricity conductor, 3M Aluminum Conductor Composite Reinforced (ACCR). ...
Nexans to Supply Submarine Power Cable for Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm
Nexans has been awarded a contract by StatoilHydro ASA with an estimated value of 24 million Euro, to supply the submarine export cables for the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm project, located approximately 20 km offshore from Sheringham, on England’s north Norfolk coast....
TERNA Loan Approved for Building Cable to Sardinia
TERNA S.p.A., Italy, has signed an agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) for a 300 million euro loan intended for building the new 500 kV direct current high voltage submarine cable between the Italian peninsula and Sardinia: SA.PE.I.. ...
CL&P Creates Wetland as Part of Middletown-Norwalk Transmission Upgrade
Connecticut Light and Power Co. (CL&P), through its Middletown-Norwalk (M-N) transmission project, is creating a new wetland in Eisenhower Park, Milford. ...
ABB to Upgrade Hydro-Quebec HVDC Converter Station
ABB has been selected by Hydro-Québec, Canada, for an upgrade of a high-voltage, direct current (HVDC) converter station....
NorNed - Positive Test Results So Far
Testing of the NorNed cable connection between Norway and the Netherlands has endured for one and a half weeks. ...
