#North Carolina

Siemens Energy plans to expand its transformer manufacturing facility, add jobs and invest almost $150 million in North Carolina over the next five years.

NC, USA: Duke Energy has awarded $615k in grants to 19 workforce development and education programs in North Carolina including $40k to RCC’s Foundation.

Two weeks in a row, the squirrels snuck into the substation and crawled on top of the equipment, knocking out the power to the substation and the local residents.

USA, North Carolina: Siemens has delivered three of its new mobile resilience transformers to Westar Energy, an energy company in Kansas.

USA, North Carolina: Multiple fire departments responded to a large transformer fire and a subsequent oil fire on Monday evening at Southern Power Plant Rowan in Salisbury, North Carolina.

USA, Virginia: Dominion Virginia Power, a Virginia-based power company, has announced its plan to invest nearly $9.5 billion to 2020 in order to increase solar and other new generation capacity and to upgrade infrastructure.

USA, North Carolina: Duke Energy gifted a single-phase transformer to Richmond Community College (RCC) specialized electric program (EUSRT), and had it delivered and installed in the campus substation.

USA, North Carolina: Thousands of Duke Energy customers were left without power in Belmont, North Carolina on Monday night due to a transformer failure.

USA, North Carolina: Virginia Transformer Corp., a manufacturer of custom power electric transformers, has announced an investment of $2.4 million in new construction and equipment in the Roanoke Valley, North Carolina.

USA, North Carolina: Synthetic products manufacturer DSM Dyneema has formed a partnership with the Norwegian manufacturer of link chains Load Solutions to develop synthetic link chains made from DSM’s ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMwPE) fibre.

USA, North Carolina: Suwannee River Power Plant located in Live Oak, Florida, was taken offline after one of its six generating units experienced a forced outage.