#USA

USA, California: The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) board of Governors has approved 13 new projects under the 2016 electricity transmission plan.

USA, New Mexico: A team led by Sandia National Laboratories, US Department of Energy research and development national laboratory, has developed a way to make a magnetic material that could lead to lighter and smaller, cheaper and better-performing high-frequency transformers.

USA, Washington D.C.: The US Department of Energy (DOE) has approved the development of the Clean Line Energy’s $2.5 billion Plains & Eastern Line transmission project in an effort to modernize the grid and accelerate the renewable energy deployment, reports EBR.

USA, Wisconsin: Solomon Corporation, a Kansas-based company specializing in the procurement of high-voltage and distribution transformers, will open a new facility in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin next month, THOnline reports.

USA, Washington D.C.: On 4 September 4 2015, the U.S. Department of Commerce published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on large power transformers from the Republic of Korea.

USA, Arizona: One of the largest green energy projects in Arizona is expected to receive green light from the Mohave County Board of Supervisors on 21 March.

USA, Ohio: FirstEnergy Corp. is expanding a transmission substation in Leroy Center to help reinforce the electric system, support load growth and enhance reliability in The Illuminating Company’s northeast Ohio service area.

USA, South Carolina: A transformer at the Oconee nuclear power plant in South Carolina caught fire on Sunday 6 March, burning for about 30 minutes, but no nuclear material was in danger of being released, Reuters reports.

USA, Utah: Lehi Power Director Joel Eves revealed that the company needs two more substations within the year to meet business and residential energy demands in the city of Lehi, Utah.

USA, Texas: Dallas firefighters responding to an office building fire found an electrocuted man on top of a transformer unit.

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, Virginia & New Jersey: The Schaffner Group, provider of electronic systems solutions and engineered low and medium voltage transformer, has announced a new sales structure in North America with a new entity Schaffner North America, Power Solutions.

USA, New Hampshire: During the next three years, Eversource Energy will be upgrading the aging electrical infrastructure in the city of Keene in the Cheshire County, New Hampshire.

USA, Michigan: Siemens has won the contract to supply critical low- and medium-voltage electrical equipment and power transformers for the new Holland Energy Park combined cycle power plant in Michigan, which will replace the aging coal-fired plant.

USA: Transparency Market Research has announced a new market research report on the global traction transformer market with an analysis of the factors affecting the growth of the market.

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.

USA, Illinois: Ameren Illinois plans to invest $6 million in the upgrade of the Powerhouse substation at West Mill Street and South Roosevelt Avenue in Bloomington with new transformers and smart technology.

USA, Kentucky: The first of four new power transformers has been delivered to the Big Sandy Power Plant owned and operated by American Electric Power near Louisa, Kentucky.

USA, Michigan: A Grand Haven, Michigan-based transformer manufacturer Grand Transformers (GTI) has expanded its footprint to the east coast with the acquisition of a New Hampshire-based company Warner Power.

USA, Kentucky: The U.S. Department of Energy and its contractors at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PGDP) used a unique method to remove and dispose of PCB oil taken from transformers at the site.

USA, Michigan: Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) has revealed plans for a $26 million central substation in REO Town, a district in Lansing, Michigan, which is part of a larger $101 million power upgrade project under way in the city.

USA, Washington DC: U.S. Senators Schumer and Gillibrand and Congressman Engel have announced $5.4 million in federal funding to replace damaged transformers and power switches at Yonkers Waterfront Park, which was hit by Superstorm Sandy in October 2012.

USA, New Jersey: A transformer fire spread to a row of vehicles at a Route 46 auto auction in Fairfield, New Jersey on Wednesday morning, authorities said.