USA, California: More than 43,000 people in Berkeley, Albany, El Cerrito, Richmond and San Pablo, California experienced a massive power outage after a power transformer at an El Cerrito substation exploded on Monday morning.
USA, California: Southern California Edison (SCE) plans to replace transformers, switches and cables in downtown Santa Barbara as part of an $11 million project to reduce the number of power failures throughout the city.
USA, California: The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) board of Governors has approved 13 new projects under the 2016 electricity transmission plan.
USA, Los Angeles: A driver distracted by a traffic accident was killed after he slammed into a utility pole in Arleta, California, knocking down three transformers that landed on top of his pickup truck.
Germany: Siemens has received an order to supply two phase-shifting transformers to California from the local supplier of energy to the Imperial Valley area in Southern California.
USA, Los Angeles: Southern California Edison, U.S. second-largest investor-owned utility, plans to invest $12 billion over the next three years to modernize the electric grid.
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, California: RESA Power Solutions has completed acquisition of Transformer Testing and Repairs, Inc., a leading provider of west coast transformer maintenance which has been serving the Northern California area since 1988.
USA, California: Southern California Edison (SoCal Ed) is proposing to upgrade an existing Mesa substation in the Los Angeles Basin to 500 kV to help make up for the retirement of the 2,250 MW San Onofre nuclear plant and planned shutdowns of power plants that use ocean water for cooling.
USA, California: Nearly 20,000 homes and businesses in San Bernardino and Highland were left without power after a blaze at the Southern California Edison substation.
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