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May 19, 2024

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Wooden cable drum return programme

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July 17, 2012 Nexans continues to reinforce its commitment to sustainable development by rolling out a new programme to collect and reuse its wooden cable drums. The drum return programme is the latest phase in Nexans’s packaging Purchasing green initiative, launched in 2010, when it became the world’s first cable......
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New DCM Cable Test System Fully Automates and Speeds the Testing of High-Performance, Twisted-Pair LAN Cables

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July 13, 2012 DCM, now a part of Beta LaserMike and a leading worldwide provider of cable test and measurement solutions, announced the new 3S-XLD automatic cable test system to efficiently measure high-performance, twisted-pair LAN cables. The DCM 3S-XLD is equipped with a 28-pair text fixture platform to simultaneously test......
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KEC International secures major orders

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July 27, 2012 KEC International Ltd. (KEC) has secured various new orders spread across its Transmission, Power Systems, Railways, Cable and Telecom businesses. Details are as follows – Transmission Business • India: In Orissa, the company has secured an order from PGCIL order for establishment of 765 kV double circuit......
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China Building World’s Largest Capacity Power Transmission Line

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May 14, 2012 China’s energy consumption is higher than any other country and the Chinese face worse power shortages owing to it having the world’s largest population. Now the country is building the world’s largest capacity (worth 37 billion kWh transmission on an average annually) ultra-high voltage power transmission line.......
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Govt seeks $1.5bn from WB to boost NE power sector

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June 10, 2012 The Government of India has sought 1.5 billion US Dollars from the World Bank for implementing a part of the comprehensive plan to improve power transmission and distribution infrastructure in the North-Eastern region. The World Bank is also discussing with the Government of India for the development......
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250,000 panchayats to get OFC network in 2 years

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June 21, 2012 Union Minister of State for IT Sachin Pilot said that all the 250,000 panchayats in the country will be broadband enabled with Optical Fibre Cables (OFCs) in the next two years. Addressing an IT summit, the minister said the Centre had earmarked a sum of Rs. 20,000......
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Power Grid to get into Power Distribution Overseas

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June 20, 2012 Power transmission monopoly Power Grid Corporation of India is planning to get into distribution business. The company that cannot directly trade power in the domestic market due to regulatory restrictions, is scouting for power distribution opportunities overseas. Besides, it is trying to branch into EPC (engineering, procurement......
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Sterlite raises Rs 2200 crore debt for 2 transmission projects

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June 19, 2012 The Bhopal-Dhule Transmission Company Limited (BDTCL) and Jabalpur Transmission Company Limited (JTCL), both wholly owned subsidiaries of Sterlite Technologies Limited (Sterlite) have received Rs. 2,200 Crores as debt syndication for their power transmission projects. The syndication has State Bank of India as the lead participant. This is......
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Orissa to take up over Rs 1200 crore transmission projects

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June 8, 2012 Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Ltd (OPTCL) plans to take up power transmission projects worth Rs. 1211 crore on the public private partnership (PPP) mode. This is expected to help them to meet the state’s power transmission capacity which is projected at 19500 MVA by 2016-17 to evacuate......
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Power Grid plans green corridor for renewable energy

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July 25, 2012 Power Grid Corporation has a Rs. 42,000-crore plan for setting up an exclusive countrywide green corridor for renewable energy transmission. This would be done over a period of five years. The investment was for transmission of 40 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2030. About Rs. 20,000......
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