T&D News
FEDCO wins mandate to turn around Nigerian discom
Feedback Energy Distribution Company (FEDCO), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Feedback Infra has bagged the business of turning around the business and technical operations of the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) of Nigeria.
Sterlite Power wins third concession in Brazil
- Dec 19, 2017
Sterlite Power has won a power transmission concession worth $800 million in Brazil, it said in a statement. The 1,800-km long project was won in a reverse auction tender with State Grid of China, Engie Elecnor and Power Grid Corporation of India being contenders. This is the third power transmission project of Sterlite Power in Brazil.
Schneider Electric launches EcoStruxure Grid in Hyderabad
- Dec 18, 2017
Schneider Electric recently launched its digital architecture, EcoStruxure Grid in Hyderabad. The architecture is an open IoT-enabled framework for digital transformation of distribution utilities and utilises disruptive technology to generate higher efficiency. EcoStruxure leverages the IT/OT convergence, ensuring higher efficiency in grid operations, enabling overall digital transformation and optimal asset management, a release from Schneider Electric said.
Prepaid meter procurement moves to bidding stage
- Dec 16, 2017
India’s plan to induct prepaid energy meters in its power distribution value chain has moved a step further with nodal Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) out in the market with a procurement tender. EESL, it may be recalled, had invited expressions of interest last month from potential domestic and international suppliers for supplying 10 million prepaid meters. Though EESL officials were unavailable for comment, industry sources suggest that the EOI exercise received encouraging response.
ABB tests 1,100kV UHVDC transformer for deployment in China
- Dec 8, 2017
ABB has successfully tested the low and high voltage units of the world’s most powerful ultrahigh-voltage direct current (UHVDC) transformer. The +/-1,100 kV UHVDC transformer, developed and manufactured in close collaboration with State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), has successfully passed a series of type tests, paving the way for the implementation of the Changji-Guquan UHVDC link, which will transmit power from the Xinjiang region in the Northwest, to Anhui province in eastern China, a release from ABB said.
Schneider Electric illuminates 350 households in Kargil district
- Nov 21, 2017
Schneider Electric India Foundation and Spreading Happiness InDiya Foundation, in association with Schneider Electric India, recently completed a rural electrification project in Jammu & Kashmir. Under the project, 350 households of Darchik and Garkone villages in Kargil district of the northern state were provided with Mobiya range of portable solar lights.
Nagaland joins UDAY, total state count reaches 27
- Nov 21, 2017
Nagaland, and three Union territories, are the latest entrants to the Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY), the Central scheme for restructuring government-owned power distribution utilities. The three UTs are Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu.
PGCIL completes one section of Srinagar-Leh transmission line
- Nov 3, 2017
Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL) has successfully completed and charged the 220kV single-circuit Leh-Khalsti line, which is part of the longer 220kV single-circuit Srinagar (Alusteng)-Leh transmission line. Along with the Leh-Khalsti line spanning 63km, two 220/66kV GIS substations—at Leh and Khalsti—have also been commissioned.