The presidential palace, the prime minister's office, government offices and television stations were all hit by the outage. Hospital intensive care units functioned on back-up generators, but ward patients suffered. Power returned to Dhaka's international airport after several hours during in which it was forced to run on generators, officials said. "We have already restored power to some parts of the capi ...

Alstom’s Smart Grid open innovation put forward at European Utility Week Alstom is committed to Smart Grid innovation, and participates once again to European Utility Week, the annual landmark event for energy leaders, in Amsterdam, Netherlands November 4 to 6 2014. Alstom reaffirms its open innovation strategy, announcing collaborations with two research institutes – new SystemX technical cluster (Institut ...

A massive nationwide power blackout hit Bangladesh on Saturday after a transmission line failed, leaving homes, businesses and shops in the densely-populated country without electricity. Power was restored in some parts of the capital Dhaka after several hours, and authorities said they hoped to have electricity back on across the nation of 155 million by Saturday evening. Local media said the problem stemm ...

Devens-based AMSC said Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) is testing a cable that uses AMSC's trademarked wire at a smart grid demonstration site on Jeju Island, a province of South Korea. The high-temperature superconductor cable uses AMSC's Amperium HTS wire. According to AMSC, such cables are "power dense and have zero resistance, making them an ideal solution to moving large amounts of power underground ...

ABB has won an order worth around $55 million from Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA) in United Arab Emirates (UAE) to build a substation that will integrate power from the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar park. The gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) substation will enhance transmission capacity, boost power supplies and strengthen the reliability of the grid. The 100MW Phase II of the solar pow ...

DNV GL, a leading global energy advisory and testing authority, today announced the latest advancement in its Smart Cable Guard solution. In addition to the existing capability that allows system operators and industrial asset managers to detect and locate partial discharges on-line, Smart Cable Guard now immediately pinpoints, within 1% accuracy, the exact location of a fault in a MV cable system and reduc ...

The United States welcomes the agreement announced today between Afghanistan and Pakistan over transit pricing for the Central Asia South Asia electricity transmission project (CASA-1000). This marks an important step in bilateral relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and one of the first foreign policy achievements of the new government of national unity in Kabul led by President Ashraf Ghani and Chi ...

Building a transmission line to carry electricity from Lao hydropower plants to Singapore can save as much as US$26 billion over 10 years for the four countries involved, according to a new study. During a press conference fo r the 32nd Asean Energy Ministers Meeting on Tuesday, Dr Yanfei Li of the Economic Research Institute for Asean and East Asia (ERIA) said the savings estimate was based on current and ...

China Nuclear Power Engineering (CNPEC) has awarded a contract to Alstom to boost power transmission for 8.6km-long gas-insulated line project. Under the €12m contract, Alstom will be responsible for replacing the overhead lines with gas-insulated lines, a more reliable and environmentally-friendly solution, at the CNPEC's Yangjiang nuclear power station. Located in Yangjiang City, in western Guangdong Prov ...

Indian construction conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has won a contract from Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) to build a high-voltage double circuit transmission line in eastern Saudi Arabia. The turnkey order, which has been awarded by SEC subsidiary National Grid, is scheduled to be completed in two years. The scope of work includes design, engineering, testing and supply of extra high-voltage (E ...