#New York

USA, New York City: An underground transformer fire caused the lights and the air conditioning to go out Friday at the main Manhattan Criminal Court building.

USA, New York: A massive fire caused by a faulty transformer has engulfed a power substation in Hillburn, New York.

USA, New York: PowerBridgeNY, a proof-of-concept center (POCC) program which is advised by the New York Academy of Sciences and provides early-stage investments and services to help inventors and scientists turn their high-tech, clean-energy ideas into a successful business, has helped establishment of a new company which has designed a new green transformer.

USA, New York: Future Market Insights has announced the addition of the “Solid State Transformers Market: APAC Industry Analysis and Opportunity Assessment 2014 – 2020″ report to their offering.

USA, New York: The New York Power Authority (NYPA), the U.S. largest state public power organization, has received an Electric Power Research Institute Technology Transfer Award for research that sheds new light on the failure of transformer bushings.

USA, New York: GE has announced the company will provide a turnkey project to Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company (Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du Gaz) for the Bouchemma power plant.

USA, New York: A power transformer fell off a delivery truck into the roadway on the south side of Public Square in Watertown, NY, leaking 795 litres of oil.

USA, New York: New York regulators have decided to move ahead with improvements proposed for over 250 kilometres (156 miles) of high-voltage transmission lines in the state of New York, US.

USA, New York: A new market report titled “Traction Transformer Market in Europe 2015-2019” has been made available.

USA, New York: After GE announced the completion of the acquisition of Alstom’s power and grid businesses, the company further announced that GE Power & Water and Alstom Power have combined to form GE Power.

USA, New York: A new report by TechNavio is available titled “Global Transformer Monitoring Solutions Market 2015-2019.”

USA, New York: The U.S. Department of Commerce has issued a preliminary determination that two Korean producers of large power transformers have been dumping their products in the U.S., according to a notice issued last week.

USA, New York: The 4th edition of the StatPlan Transformer Report is now available.

USA, New York: Following the 9 May transformer failure at Indian Point Unit 3 in the suburbs of New York, preliminary estimates indicate that about 11,356 litres of dielectric fluid from the failed transformer have entered the Hudson River, revealed the plant operator Entergy.

USA, New York: The failed transformer which sparked a fire and oil leak at Indian Point nuclear power plant in the New York City suburbs must be replaced, according to officials.

USA, New York: General Electric unit GE Energy Financial Services has announced that it will auction 315 MW of bi-directional electricity transfer capacity across its Linden Variable Frequency Transformer (VFT) smart grid project.

USA, New York: A fire at a Consolidated Edison substation in Thornwood led to the spilling of about 10,220 litres of transformer oil.

USA, New York: The New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) has approved Con Edison’s Brooklyn/Queens Demand Management (BQDM) Programme to address overload of sub-transmission feeders serving Brownsville 1 and 2 substations.

USA, New York: Tomorrow Daniel Assandri, CEO of ABB in Canada, will participate as a speaker at Sustainable Energy for All Forum (SE4ALL) at United Nations, New York City.