December 8, 2020
Paraguay’s state-owned power company, Administración Nacional de Electricidad (ANDE), has awarded transmission contracts worth USD37 million.
November 16, 2020
Ecuador's state-owned power company, La Empresa Pública Estratégica Corporación Eléctrica del Ecuador (CELEC EP), has selected Chinese Changjiang Institute of Survey Planning Design and Research for providing design consultancy services for the Ecuadorian section of the 500 kV Peru–Ecuador Interconnection project.
November 4, 2020
Spanish multinational corporation, Abengoa, has bagged a contract from the Transmisora del Pacífico, a unit of Chilean power transmission company Transelec SA, for the execution of the Nueva Puerto Montt–Nueva Ancud transmission line project.
October 21, 2020
Panamanian state-owned electricity transmission company, Empresa de Transmision Electrica (ETESA), has awarded the contract for the 230 kV Sabanitas–Panamá III Transmission Line and Associated Network Expansion Project to the Agrupacion Sabanitas Panama consortium, led by Spanish Elecnor.
October 6, 2020
Spanish multinational corporation, Abengoa, has bagged a contract from the Chilean power transmission company, Transelec SA, for the construction of a 220 kV substation and three 220 kV sectioning lines, all of which are part of the expansion plan of the Chilean national transmission system.
September 21, 2020
Paraguay’s state-owned power company, Administración Nacional de Electricidad (ANDE), has awarded local company Tecnoedil a USD9.71 million contract for the expansion of the Caaguazú substation.
September 21, 2020
Recently, the Spanish infrastructure, energy and telecommunications company, Elecnor, has been awarded a EUR28.8 million contract for the construction of the 56 MW Coromuel wind farm in Mexico, which is being developed by Eurus Energy.
July 20, 2020
Bolivian state energy company Empresa Nacional de Electricidad’s (ENDE) subsidiary, ENDE Transmission, has awarded a USD10 million contract to a consortium comprising of Uruguay’s Ingener and German Siemens for the development and commissioning of a 50 MVAr static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) system.
July 2, 2020
The Spanish infrastructure, energy and telecommunications company, Elecnor, has been awarded a contract for the construction of the 185 MW Cerro Tigre wind farm in Chile.
June 29, 2020
Paraguay’s state-owned power company, Administración Nacional de Electricidad (ANDE), has awarded contracts aggregating to USD108 million for works associated with the 500 kV Yguazú substation and interconnection project.
June 24, 2020
Recently, the Chilean national electricity system, Coordinador Eléctrico Nacional (CEN), has awarded 18 engineering, construction and procurement (EPC) contracts under the decrees 418/2017 and 293/2018 for the expansion of various transmission facilities located between Arica and Chiloé cities of the country.
June 2, 2020
Spanish multinational corporation, Abengoa SA, has bagged a contract from the Chilean power transmission company, Transelec SA, for the expansion of a 220 kV substation near the city of María Elena, in the Antofagasta region.
May 7, 2020
Mainstream Renewable Power Chile has signed contracts for the construction of five transmission lines to connect the company’s three wind warms and two solar farms to the Chilean national grid.
April 14, 2020
ABB, via its Power Grids business vertical, has signed a five-year framework contract estimated to be worth around USD100 million with Colombia-based Interconexion Electrica S.A. E.S.P. (ISA).
February 28, 2020
Mainstream Renewable Power, a global wind and solar development company, has awarded a contract to Chilean power transmission company Transelec SA to build and operate a transmission line for a 156 MW wind project in the Los Lagos Region in Chile.
February 13, 2020
Enel Green Power, a part of Italy-based Enel Group, has selected ABB to install a 500 kV digital substation to deliver clean electricity from its largest solar photovoltaic (PV) plant at São Gonçalo in Piauí, north-eastern Brazil.
January 15, 2020
Prysmian Group, an Italian multinational dedicated to the manufacture of cables and transmission systems for the electricity and telecommunications industries, has been awarded a new contract worth about USD38 million by the Mexican state-owned power utility, Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) for the project “Proyecto de Conectividad Fibra Óptica Red Eléctrica Inteligente REI” in Mexico.
July 8, 2019
Paraguay’s state-owned power company Administración Nacional de Electricidad (ANDE) has selected Consorcio Siemens–Rieder 500 kV (Siemens, a global electrical engineering and electronics company, and Rieder & Cia, a Paraguay-based integrated solutions provider for energy industry) for the design, supply and installation of a Contingency Control Scheme for the recently completed 500 kV Yacyretá–Ayolas–Villa Hayes line, and Ayolas and Villa Hayes substations.
June 19, 2019
Ireland-based Mainstream Renewable Power and Chilean power transmission company Transelec SA have signed a contract to design and build a transmission line that will connect the former’s 293 MWp of solar parks to the national electric system in Chile.
May 20, 2019
Spanish multinational corporation Abengoa SA has been selected by Arauco, one of the main producers of cellulose and wood derivatives in Chile, for the development of a new transmission project.