#transformer failure

A transformer failure resulted in an island-wide outage on Kauai on Thursday afternoon, according to the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative.

South Africa, Durban: Eskom has said it noted a rise in blown transformers due to overloading, causing electricity outages in areas around KwaZulu-Natal.

USA, Kansas City: A blown transformer caused roughly 10,500 Kansas City area residents to lose power on 13 June.

Called to investigate in-service failure of a 22 MVA furnace transformer, Hitachi Energy Service Group in Sweden carried out a battery of tests to determine the type and location of the fault.

Nepal, Bharatpur: Both power transformers at the 132/11 kV Bharatpur substation in Bharatpur Metropolitan City are now operational.

Georgia Power blames transformer failure for multiple underground electrical explosions in Atlanta.

USA, Texas: El Paso Electric crews are repairing a failed transformer after 10,000 people in El Paso were affected by power outages at the beginning of the week.

France: One of the reactors at France’s Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant has been shut down due to a faulty transformer.

Canada, British Columbia: Huge flames and thick black smoke towered into the air in Richmond on Tuesday morning after a BC Hydro power station caught fire probably due to transformer failure.

USA, California: Fujitsu has acknowledged that a major power transformer failure took down its Sunnyvale data centre on 22 August, according to ZD Net.

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

Faulty insulation caused transformer fire and oil spill at Indian Point

Norway, Oslo: Power prices in Estonia surged on Monday due to an outage on the 650-megawatt Estlink 2 submarine power cable to Finland which sent the spread between Estonian and Finnish prices to almost 10 euros, reports Reuters.

Zambia, Lusaka: A power failure that plunged most of Zambia into darkness at the beginning of last week was caused by a fault at a transformer in a substation in the north of the country, reports Bloomberg.

Canada, Quebec: After a failure of a transformer at Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) mining plant in Saguenay, Quebec, over 20,000 litres of transformer insulating oil was spilled, reported regional authorities.

Ukraine, Kiev: Unit 3 of the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant was disabled for several hours last night for transformer repair, announced Energoatom.

USA, Indiana: ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor, a steelmaking facility located on Lake Michigan in Northwest Indiana, was forced to shut down production on Friday due to a transformer failure that caused a lack of power.

France, Cattenom: Reactor Unit 3 at the Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant located close to Luxembourg-France border in the Cattenom commune, France, has been shut down after an electrical fault was detected in the main power transformer.

USA, Florida: JEA, Jacksonville utility company, has used a helicopter to deliver a power transformer to Liberty Street and replace the transformer which was damaged when a large section of South Liberty Street in downtown Jacksonville collapsed into the St. Johns River more than two weeks ago.

Canada, Toronto: After transformer equipment failed in -17 °C temperatures on Friday morning, power has been restored to most of the 8,000 customers who were cut off in Toronto downtown area.

USA, Michigan: Following the explosion that occurred at Escanaba Power Plant last week, leaving only a few items at the substation undamaged, investigations are still underway.

South Africa, Johannesburg: South Africa’s only nuclear power plant Koeberg has left without nearly 1,000 MW of electricity due to a technical failure in the main generator transformer.

USA, Colorado: A malfunctioned transformer caused a power outage at Cargill’s beef processing plant in Fort Morgan, Colorado yesterday morning.