XD Group

China XD Group
Industry Power engineering, electrical equipment manufacturing
Headquarters Xian, Shaanxi, China
Website XD Group

XD Group or Xi'an Electric Manufacturing Corp (also known as Xian XD, Xian Xidian, Xian Electric.) is a major manufacturer of transformers in China.

Business areas

At present, XD Group owns over 40 wholly owned enterprises or holding enterprises, including 10 large or medium key production enterprises and 3 research institutions (including 3 national testing centers). It has more than 18,000 employees, and over 3,000 of them are engineers and technicians.

XD Group’s main business includes the research and development, design, production, sales and examinations of power transmission and distribution and control equipment, relevant equipment technology and service in a complete set, engineering contracting, etc. Its core business is the production, the research and development and the examinations of high voltage, extra high voltage and extreme high voltage AC/DC power transmission and distribution equipment. Its leading products include 110KV and above voltage level of high voltage switches (GIS, GCB, isolating switches, ground switches), transformers (power transformers, converter transformers), reactors (smoothing reactors，shunt reactors)，power condensers，instrument transformers (CVT, CT, PT), insulators (power substation electric porcelain products，composite insulator products), cannula, zinc oxide arresters, direct current transportation valves, etc. XD Group is the production base of high voltage, extra high voltage and extreme high voltage AC/DC power transmission and distribution equipment and other electrical products.

As China’s experimental research establishment of high voltage, intense current and large capacity AC/DC, XD Group’s subordinate research institutions have become not only the member of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and International Conference on Large High Voltage Electric Systems (CIGRE), but also the specified administrative department of IEC in China and the relevant international Secretariat.

Wind farm

As its first major wind power project, XD will assist Uzbekistan in constructing wind farms. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed with Uzbekenergo, the country’s governing body for energy, to conduct a feasibility study on the establishment of wind farms.[1]

History

The XD Group was established in July, 1959. On the basis of 5 projects of the 156 key construction projects in the first five-year plan, it has developed to be a large-size enterprise group taking research institutions and backbone enterprises as its core as well as merging research, development, production, trade and finance as an organic whole. In 2001, being approved by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce of the People's Republic of China, China XD Group was established formally with XD Company as its parent company. In 2003, XD Company became the only central enterprise of the power transmission and distribution industry under the supervision of the State Property Management Commission of the State Council. On May 6, 2009, being approved by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce of the People's Republic of China, China XD Company formally changed its name to be China XD Group and decided to name it XD Group for short.

The company has supplied to national engineering projects, such as China’s first 330kV and 550kV High Voltage DC Transmission Engineering, the first 750kV Extra High Voltage AC Transmission Engineering, the first ±100kV High Voltage DC Transmission Engineering, the first ±500kV Extra High Voltage DC Transmission Engineering, the first ±800kV Extreme High Voltage DC Transmission Engineering, the first power supply network from the northwest to the North China back-to-back DC Transmission Engineering, Three Gorges Project, and West-East electricity transmission project. Among them, the products, like transformers of 750kV, reactors, lightning arresters, capacitor voltage transformers and isolating switches of 800kV, have been operated successfully in 750kV model projects in the northwest; China’s first 800kV double cut-off pot-style breakers has been put into operation at Yinchuan East Transformer Substation. Besides, XD Group first developed and stored relevant technologies of AC 1100kV and DC ±800kV Extreme High Voltage products in China, provided such products as 1000kVGIS, reactors, capacitor voltage transformers, lightning arresters, ground switches, insulator, etc., for the megavolt model line “southeast Shanxi-Nanyang-Jingmen Model Project” and such products as transformers, valves, capacitor, lightning arresters, etc., for the megavolt model line “Yunnan-Guangzhou” ±800kV Extreme High Voltage DC Transmission Project. On the international markets, XD Group’s products and technology have been exported to more than 40 countries and regions and succeeded in entering the markets of some developed countries and regions, such as Germany, America, Singapore, Hong Kong, etc.

A future growth area the company has focused in on is breakthrough in extreme high voltage universal power transmission and distribution equipment, led the way in China in researching and developing line products for 750 kV power network, and succeeded in developing 800 kV GIS，couple cut-off pot-type breakers, isolating switches and transformers of 750 kV, reactors, lightning arresters, etc.

References

  1. ↑ "Chinese Xian Electric to Build Wind Farms in Uzbekistan". The Gazette of Central Asia (Satrapia). 14 March 2013.

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