Electrical Industry News for March 2025

In July 2022, PT. NR Electric Jakarta (NR Jakarta) accomplished Local Content Level (TKDN) certification for the products of Control Relay Panel and Substation Automation System. It is a milestone for NR’s transformation to be a reputable local manufacturer in Indonesia. PT. NR Electric Jakarta is NR’s subsidiary company in Indonesia. Since its establishment in 2012, NR Jakarta has implemented the localization strategy and continued to provide high-quality products and services to I...

On July 15, 2022, the ± 360MVar Static Var Compensation (SVC) system supplied by NR, successfully completed various system tests and 72-hour trial operation in the 750kV Shazhou substation in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, and was officially put into operation. The SVC phase II project completed this time, together with the SVC phase I supplied by NR and the controllable shunt reactance(CSR), forms the Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) with the largest single station regulation capacit...

On July 1, 2022, the Baihetan Jiangsu ±800kV HVDC transmission project (hereinafter referred to as ‘Baijiang project’) of State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) was completed and put into operation. Clean hydropower from Baihetan Hydropower Station will be delivered to Jiangsu continuously, providing a strong guarantee for the power supply of East China Power Grid during the ‘peak summer’ period. Baihetan Hydropower Station The total length of the line is 2080 k...

In July 2022, the Utilities Communication Architecture International User Group (UCAIug) organized the sixth Interoperability (IOP) test in Italy. Despite the impact of the epidemic, this IOP still attracted the participation of all the world's top suppliers, with 19 institutions participating in the IOP. NR participated in the IOP test for the fourth time and achieved a complete success. NR exhibits its technical strength in IOP test In the IOP test, NR fully demonstrated its technical stren...

GlobalLogic Inc., a Hitachi Group Company and major in Digital Engineering, has announced that its President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) - Shashank Samant will be succeeded by the firm’s current Chief Operating Officer (COO) - Nitesh Banga, who will become the new President and CEO effective October 1, 2022. Nitesh is a well-rounded and seasoned executive who has successfully worked across functions from Strategy, Go-To-Market, Engineering, and Operations while also launching simila...

GlobalLogic Inc., a Hitachi Group company and a globally renowned firm in Digital Engineering, has announced it has achieved a Green rating via the NQC SupplierAssurance platform — a cloud-based solution used by suppliers to determine their sustainability performance level. Based on the Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ 4.0) and validated by the NQC Supplier Assurance Team for accuracy, the results show GlobalLogic earning a score of 72% in its market category of Engineering and Research...

GlobalLogic Inc., a Hitachi Group Company and globally renowned firm in Digital Engineering, announced that it has been recognized as a market major in the ISG Provider Lens™ Digital Engineering Services Report 2022 by Information Services Group (ISG), a renowned global technology research and advisory firm. As global organizations in all industries continue to invest heavily in digitally transforming their businesses, the report examines the rapidly evolving area of digital engineering s...

Nojima Corporation now announced a partnership with GlobalLogic Japan, Ltd., a Japanese subsidiary of GlobalLogic Inc., acquired by Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501, "Hitachi") in July 2021. The collaboration intends to accelerate the development and implementation of Nojima’s Digital Transformation (“DX”) strategy. The co-creation program focuses on the deployment of brand-new customer experiences that integrate GlobalLogic’s digital engineering with Nojima’s digitalizatio...

GlobalLogic Inc., a Hitachi Group Company and pioneer in Digital Engineering, has announced its global sustainability efforts have earned a silver rating from EcoVadis. When compared to other technology services businesses, GlobalLogic ranked in the top 27th percentile. The achievement is a testament to GlobalLogic’s commitment to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives and supporting its customers in achieving their sustainability goals. Important step in GlobalLogic&rsq...

GlobalLogic Inc., a Hitachi Group company and pioneer in Digital Engineering, has launched the Women Influencers Program, designed to encourage and enable women employees interested in exploring cross-functional management positions within the technology firm. As part of the company’s focus on DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion), GlobalLogic is aiming for greater diversity at all levels in the workforce across gender, sexual orientation, color, ethnic origin, age and ability. Women Influe...

On April 12, 2022, NR PCS-9531 electronic load bank system was successfully put into operation at Ferronickel project in Indonesia. The successful operation of the system will improve the primary frequency modulation capacity of enterprise power grid, enhance the power grid damping, and effectively improve the static and dynamic stability of the grid. It has great application value for ensuring the safe, reliable and stable operation of islanding power network. Indonesia - the ‘country o...

Recently, the first unit of Zungeru hydropower station in Nigeria was successfully commissioned and realized power generation, which laid a good foundation for the power generation of subsequent units. NR has designed hydropower unit protection solutions for the project and provided key equipment such as generator transformer unit protection and switchyard protection. Zungeru hydropower station Zungeru hydropower station is located in the middle and upper reaches of Kaduna river Zungeru hydr...

On March 29, 2022, the DC back-to-back project in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay Area (hereinafter referred to as Guangzhou Project), which lasted 15 months was successfully put into operation. The Guangzhou project The Guangzhou project put into operation this time adopts the new generation flexible DC transmission system of NR, including flexible DC protection & control, measurement, phase selection closing and opening devices, as well as flexible direct converter valve and other cor...

Recently, the first 220kV Badr#2 traction station of Egypt's first electrified railway - Egypt Ramadan 10th City Light - Rail Transit (LRT) railway project was successfully energized. Egypt's Ramadan 10th City LRT connects Cairo City, satellite cities along the East and the new capital of Egypt, with a total length of about 65 kilometers. 11 stations are set along the line. The completion of the project will drive the economic development of surrounding cities and facilitate the travel of nearl...

GlobalLogic Inc., a Hitachi Group Company and pioneer in Digital Engineering, announced that as part of its development partnership with Roku, to date, it has developed 150+ channels on the Roku platform. This milestone is the result of nearly ten years of working directly with Roku application development frameworks and tools. That platform-specific knowledge positions GlobalLogic as a proven developer integral in bringing to market higher performing Roku channels quickly and cost effectively....

GlobalLogic Inc., a Hitachi Group Company and pioneer in Digital Engineering, announced availability of OpeNgine version 2.1. Part of GlobalLogic’s Digital Accelerators suite, OpeNgine automates critical elements of the full DevOps lifecycle—including CI/CD, toolset configuration and cloud infrastructure provisioning—for microservices platforms. These capabilities significantly simplify microservice implementation while reducing timelines from months to weeks or...

GlobalLogic Inc., a Hitachi Group Company and major in Digital Engineering, has announced that it has been selected by Cybereason, the globally renowned company in operation-centric attack protection, to help develop its next-generation cyber security platform and services. Deployed by large enterprises, governments, and major cloud providers worldwide, Cybereason’s future-ready attack protection spans across end-points, the enterprise, the cloud, and everywhere the defenders battle cyber...

GlobalLogic Inc., a Hitachi Group company and pioneer in Digital Engineering, announced the availability of its enhanced Microservices Accelerator, a comprehensive and pluggable digital microservices development platform. Developed by GlobalLogic, this technology is used in conjunction with the company’s Digital Engineering services to greatly simplify and accelerate the design, configuration, and deployment of Microservices platforms – which are the most commonly deployed architect...

Recently, Hainan Wanning 9F 460MW heavy duty gas turbine unit 1 successfully completed 168 hour trial operation and was officially put into operation. NR has provided complete sets of core protection & control equipment, such as SFC variable frequency starting system, excitation system and generator transformer unit protection system for the project, so as to comprehensively protect the startup, operation and safety of the unit. NR provides core protection & control equipment The Data...

GlobalLogic Inc., Jungo and OpenSynergy announced the product of a partnership agreement to co-develop an automotive virtual driver monitoring system (DMS) solution that delivers advanced security, convergence and ease of implementation. The new solution integrates a standalone DMS currently provided on a separate engine control unit (ECU) with an existing automotive cockpit controller. new use cases and costs As a result, the DMS provides input to both the instrument cluster (e.g., drowsines...

GlobalLogic Inc., a Hitachi Group Company, and a pioneer in Digital Engineering, announced that it has been selected by Inspira Technologies to develop an algorithm-enhanced digital platform powering the ART device—an Early Extracorporeal Respiratory Support system targeting respiratory failure patients such as those diagnosed with COVID-19. The project underscores GlobalLogic’s deep expertise in Class II and Class III software creation for medical devices that must meet strict regu...

PCS-8351 fast switching fault current limiter developed by NR was officially put into operation after 168 hours of stable operation in Xinjian, China on September 25, 2021. This project solves the problem of excessive short-circuit current caused by centralized transmission of renewables, reduces the impact of short-circuit current on electrical equipment of main power grid, and improves the flexibility and reliability of power grid regulation. In recent years, northwest power grid, as the mai...

On September 23, 2021, China’s first offshore pilot oilfield shore power project, Qinhuangdao-Caofeidian Oil field Group shore power project, belonging to China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) in the Bohai sea region, was successfully put into operation. Qinhuangdao-Caofeidian oilfield shore power project includes offshore 220kV offshore Haifeng power platform, 220kV onshore Haidiao switching station, 220kV offshore Haiyu power platform and 220kV Haishun switching station. The s...

Hitachi, Ltd. and GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company, announced the launch of a collaborative hub to promote digital transformation (DX) services in the Japanese market. Based in the Lumada Innovation Hub Tokyo, a co-creation base for Hitachi, this collaboration hub combines capabilities of GlobalLogic and Lumada. Delivering on the joint integration strategy, this partnership aims to jump-start GlobalLogic’s entry into Japan, and will accelerate business development for design-led Digit...

Hitachi, Ltd. has announced that it has completed the acquisition of GlobalLogic Inc., pursuant to the terms of the definitive agreement signed on March 31, 2021. As announced in the press release dated March 31, Hitachi Global Digital Holdings LLC, a U.S. subsidiary of Hitachi, has acquired 100% of the outstanding shares of GlobalLogic Worldwide Holdings, Inc., the parent company of GlobalLogic, and GlobalLogic Worldwide Holdings and GlobalLogic have become wholly owned subsidiaries of HGDH....

GlobalLogic Inc., a pioneer in Digital Product Engineering, announces it has earned the Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure advanced specialization, a validation of a solution partner’s deep knowledge, extensive experience and proven expertise in deploying and managing production workloads in the cloud using containers and managing hosted Kubernetes environments in Microsoft Azure. GlobalLogic pursued this particular capability to keep in step with its customers’ growing need for a robus...

GlobalLogic, a pioneer in Digital Product Engineering, announced today that it has signed up to participate in the Ericsson Industry 4.0 partner program for system integrators (SIs). GlobalLogic will deliver value by bringing its domain expertise in the various facets of Industry 4.0 — such as IoT, 5G, and advanced analytics — to enable the smart automation of fundamental manufacturing and industrial functions.  “Industry 4.0 continues to revolutionize modern manufacturin...

GlobalLogic Inc., a pioneer in Digital Product Engineering, has announced that Goldman Sachs is recognizing GlobalLogic’s President and CEO, Shashank Samant, as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2020 at its Builders + Innovators Summit.  Goldman Sachs selected Mr. Samant as one of 100 entrepreneurs from multiple industries to be honored at the two-day event. Extensive industry experience Since joining GlobalLogic in 2008, Shashank Samant has transformed the company fr...

GlobalLogic Inc., a globally renowned company in Digital Product Engineering, has announced that, effective immediately, Steve Pusey is appointed as Chairman of the Board. Mr. Pusey brings more than 35 years of experience working with both consumer and enterprise-facing technology companies around the globe. Prior to his work as board member and advisor, he served as Vodafone Group’s Chief Technology Officer from 2006 to 2015, and on the board of Vodafone from 2009 to 2015. Steve Pusey a...

GlobalLogic Inc., a globally renowned company in Digital Product Engineering, has announced that two of its international engineering centers have earned industry accolades for workplace environments and employee management practices. GlobalLogic India and GlobalLogic Ukraine are now recognized as the Information Technology (IT) sector’s Great Place to Work and Most Attractive Employer, respectively. India exhibits a high-performance Workplace Culture™ More than two million employ...