http://tdworld.com/ Transmission & Distribution World News en-us http://tdworld.com/projects_in_progress/top_story/croydon-cable-ceremony-0512 A tree planting ceremony has marked the formal end of National Grid’s Croydon Cable Tunnel Project, bringing to a close a project which began half a decade ago. top_story Thu, 24 May 2012 10:27:00 EDT http://tdworld.com/projects_in_progress/announcements/clp-infrastructure-upgrades-0512 Connecticut Light & Power (CL&P) is in the final stages of a $42.3 million program to upgrade and strengthen its infrastructure across the state as the 2012 summer season – the time of greatest electricity consumption – approaches. announcements Thu, 24 May 2012 10:24:00 EDT http://tdworld.com/projects_in_progress/announcements/national-grid-energy-supplies-0512 National Grid is investing £50 million on refurbishing and replacing sections of overhead line across the Middlesborough, UK, area over the next two years. announcements Thu, 24 May 2012 10:20:00 EDT http://tdworld.com/projects_in_progress/announcements/cmp-345kV-transformer-0512 Central Maine Power Company (CMP), a subsidiary of Iberdrola USA, is set to take delivery of a 345-kV autotransformer for a substation in Lewiston, Maine as part of the company’s $1.4 billion Maine Power Reliability Program (MPRP). announcements Thu, 24 May 2012 10:15:00 EDT http://tdworld.com/projects_in_progress/business_in_tech/nexans-northwind-offshore-0512 Nexans has won a contract worth more than 50 million Euro to supply a total of 57 km of high-voltage subsea power export cables to Northwind NV in the North Sea. business_in_tech Thu, 24 May 2012 10:10:00 EDT http://tdworld.com/projects_in_progress/business_in_tech/prysmian-cables-vietnam-0512 Prysmian Group has been awarded a contract by the Vietnamese utility EVNSPC (Southern Power Corporation under Vietnam Electricity) worth a total of Euro 67 million for the design, supply, installation, and commissioning of a submarine power cable link to connect Phu Quoc Island to the national power grid in Vietnam. business_in_tech Thu, 24 May 2012 10:07:00 EDT http://tdworld.com/projects_in_progress/construction_equipment/madi-hot-stick-attachment-0512 The Double-Header Universal Attachment tool allows users to attach two different universal tool accessories to the same hot stick. construction_equipment Thu, 24 May 2012 10:02:00 EDT http://tdworld.com/overhead_transmission/lpsc-entergy-miso-0512 Louisiana electricity customers are one step closer to saving a projected half a billion dollars or more following the Louisiana Public Service Commission's decision supporting Entergy Louisiana, LLC's and Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, L.L.C.'s proposal to join a large regional transmission organization. overhead_transmission Thu, 24 May 2012 09:39:00 EDT http://tdworld.com/the_smarter_grid/highlights/elster-brazil-smart-meters-0512 Light S.A., the second largest utility in Brazil, has chosen Elster's Garnet and Dracon solutions to expand its Advanced Metering Infrastructure system to an additional 80,000 metering endpoints in the city of Rio de Janeiro. highlights Wed, 23 May 2012 12:42:00 EDT http://tdworld.com/the_smarter_grid/highlights/smart-energy-collective-projects-0512 Twenty six partners of the Smart Energy Collective have signed a renewed cooperation agreement for the approval of the second phase of its smart grid initiative, which involves the development of five large-scale smart grid demonstration projects in the Netherlands. highlights Wed, 23 May 2012 12:27:00 EDT