Subestação de Tábua

English translation: Tábua substation

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Portuguese term or phrase:Subestação de Tábua
English translation:Tábua substation
Entered by: liz askew

11:30 Jul 12, 2010
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Energy / Power Generation
Portuguese term or phrase: Subestação de Tábua
It's a well established industry term for a type of electricity substation but I'm having difficulty finding the equivalent English term. Does anyone know it?
lexical
Spain
Local time: 23:32
Tábua substation
Explanation:
# [PDF]
Report and Accounts First quarter 2009
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
The Group has two major businesses: electricity and gas, and two residual businesses ...... A pledge for expropriating plots of land to Tabua's substation ...
www.ren.pt/SiteCollectionDocuments/Investidor/.../RENRC1T09...
# [PDF]
Report and Accounts for the REN Group 2009
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
the transmission of very high voltage electricity and overall technical ...... In the Centro region, the new 220/60 kV Tábua substation was opened and the ...
www.ren.pt/SiteCollectionDocuments/Investidor/.../Ponto2RCE...

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Note added at 10 mins (2010-07-12 11:41:53 GMT)
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REN Group Consolidated Report 2008
medium and high voltage levels continued, with the exception of ...... The opening of the Tábua substation and construction of a 220 kV line between this ...
www.analist.be/reports/ren-2008.pdf

what is the term you actually need to know ?
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liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:32
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Summary of answers provided
5Substation of Tábua
Maria Castro
3 +2Tábua substation
liz askew
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liz askew

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Substation of Tábua


Explanation:
Tábua is the name of the village (not far from where I live, in fact:))
see here:
http://maps.google.pt/maps?hl=pt-PT&q=Tábua - Portugal&um=1&...

Maria Castro
Portugal
Local time: 22:32
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Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Tábua substation


Explanation:
# [PDF]
Report and Accounts First quarter 2009
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
The Group has two major businesses: electricity and gas, and two residual businesses ...... A pledge for expropriating plots of land to Tabua's substation ...
www.ren.pt/SiteCollectionDocuments/Investidor/.../RENRC1T09...
# [PDF]
Report and Accounts for the REN Group 2009
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
the transmission of very high voltage electricity and overall technical ...... In the Centro region, the new 220/60 kV Tábua substation was opened and the ...
www.ren.pt/SiteCollectionDocuments/Investidor/.../Ponto2RCE...

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Note added at 10 mins (2010-07-12 11:41:53 GMT)
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REN Group Consolidated Report 2008
medium and high voltage levels continued, with the exception of ...... The opening of the Tábua substation and construction of a 220 kV line between this ...
www.analist.be/reports/ren-2008.pdf

what is the term you actually need to know ?

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:32
Does not meet criteria
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Thanks for putting me straight!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ward Whittaker
4 mins
  -> Thank you! Glad you approve:) :)

agree  Douglas Bissell
1 hr
  -> Thank you!
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Reference comments


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Reference

Reference information:
I am confused here, isn't "Tabua" the name of a place? rather than a type of substation....see:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:m0hnyQn...

liz askew
United Kingdom
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  Catarina Aleixo
2 mins
agree  Ward Whittaker: I agree. I just found several towns with this name here in Brazil.
3 mins
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