USA; Nebraska: The Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) will be moving a large power transformer from the Axtell area to Neligh starting Monday, 6 June and completing the move on Tuesday, 7 June.
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, Ohio: A new power transformer has been delivered to Hydro One’s Clarington transmission station.
USA, Maryland: Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) will invest $4 billion during the next five years in the power system upgrades and expansions in order to ensure fewer power outages and faster restoration of power when outages occur.
USA, Massachusetts: With Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts shutting down permanently in mid-2019, the site is being considered by another energy producer for the construction of a new power substation to be built as part of the $1.5 billion sub-Atlantic transmission project.
USA, Minnesota: Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) authorized a call for bids for an addition of a power transformer and associated improvements to the South Side Substation in New Ulm, Minnesota.
USA, Washington: The Port of Quincy in Washington State will be building two electrical power substations in 2017.
USA: First Reserve International, a US private equity fund, announced the signing of an investment to acquire a subset of the international power transmission and distribution division of Crompton Greaves Ltd., which will be rebranded as Pauwels, reports the PE Hub.
USA, New Mexico: Under an interagency agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has awarded a design-build substation contract at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to Gardner Zemke Mechanical and Electrical Contractors of Albuquerque.
USA, Florida: GE has announced opening of its new capacitor and instrument transformer advanced manufacturing facility in Clearwater, Florida following the investment of
$60 million.
USA, Pikeville: Kentucky Power has completed two substation upgrade projects totalling about $15 million near Elkhorn City and Pikeville, bolstering reliability in eastern Kentucky.
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, Queensland: Queensland’s electricity operator Powerlink is investing $15.5 million (AUD20 million) in an overhaul of a substation in the Gladstone region in Central Queensland which feeds most of Central Queensland and major industrial sites such as the Boyne Smelter and Yarwun.
USA, Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh-based steel producer Allegheny Technologies announced the elimination of 250 jobs in the company’s flat-rolled products division.
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, New Jersey: Cast resin transformer manufacturer Jinpan International Limited has announced that the company’s shareholders voted in favour of the proposal to authorize and approve the previously announced merger agreement among the company, FNOF E&M Investment Limited and Silkwings Limited.
USA, Arkansas: Arkansas Public Service Commission (APSC) staff has approved Entergy Arkansas’ proposal to build a 500/161 kV transmission substation and the related transmission line terminal facilities to be located in Craighead County, Arkansas.
USA, Pittsburgh: As the United States Trade Representative called a hearing on the global steel industry and its impact on the U.S. steel industry and steel market, United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard urged the U.S. Government to create an immediate action plan on US steel crisis, reports Sys-Con Media.
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, Massachusetts: General Electric announced its headquarters will move to the Seaport District of Boston along Necco Street, reports Electric Light & Power.
USA, Delaware: Large U.S. utilities are joining forces to fund the creation of a new Delaware company, Grid Assurance LLC., which will stockpile critical pieces of electrical equipment that can be rushed to power companies if they are hit by terrorist attacks, earthquakes or other disasters that could cause extended blackouts.
USA, Michigan: A large power transformer holding 113,500 litres of cooling oil failed on Friday afternoon at the Cook Nuclear Plant in Michigan, leaking the oil.
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, Georgia: MIDEL natural ester-based transformer fluid (MIDEL eN) is now manufactured, sold and distributed in the United States.