USA, Wisconsin: St. Croix County has decided to invest in three new transformer to build a backup system with an aim to prevent a repeat of a recent incident that interrupted electrical service to the county’s emergency 911 centre, jail and Government Center.
USA, New Jersey: Jinpan International Limited, a manufacturer of cast resin transformers, has announced that it has entered into a merger agreement with FNOF E&M Investment Limited and Silkwings Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of FNOF E&M Investment Limited, according to PR Newswire.
USA, Maryland: A slow moving convoy carrying a transformer through two states experienced delays in Harrisville, Maryland, on Tuesday morning.
USA, Georgia: PPI, parent company of Power Partners, has announced that they have signed an agreement for the sale of Power Partners to OpenGate Capital, a global private equity firm.
USA: Metal Miner has analysed five trends expected to underpin the dynamic that will impact the global grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES) market in 2016.
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, Oregon: A new report by Allied Market Research titled “World Transformer Oil Market – Opportunities and Forecasts, 2014-2020” projects the global transformer oil sales to reach $3.4 billion by 2020, with the mineral oil-based transformer oil segment to maintain its dominance until 2020.
USA, Kentucky: Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives Inc. (KAEC) announced in December it will shut down its transformer manufacturing operations in Louisville in early 2016, as part of a shift to a distribution-only business model.
USA, South Carolina: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has started a specialized inspection at the Oconee Nuclear Station near Seneca, South Carolina, to assist in assessing degraded power cables on start-up transformers for two of the plant’s three units.
USA, Rhode Island: The National Grid expects to start construction on a new substation near the South Street Landing project, in Providence, Rhode Island, next month.
USA, Washington D.C.: On 4 December 2015 President Obama signed into law the so-called “FAST Act”— Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act – which includes energy security amendments to the Federal Power Act (“FPA”), several of which affect utilities and other parties in the electric industry such as regulators, owners, operators, and users of electric generation and transmission infrastructure.
USA, Washington D.C.: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a proposal under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act that a person importing into the United States any covered product or equipment, including power transformers, subject to an applicable energy conservation standard provide a certification of admissibility to the DOE.
USA, Oregon: Pacific Crest Transformers (PCT) announces has opened a new manufacturing facility in Monterey, Mexico, adding to the company’s overall capacity and creating more jobs at the Medford, Oregon facility.
USA, New York: A power transformer fell off a delivery truck into the roadway on the south side of Public Square in Watertown, NY, leaking 795 litres of oil.
USA, Michigan: 455-ton transformer blocked traffic in Oshtemo Township, Michigan on its way to a new electric substation in Van Buren County’s Almena Township.
USA, Arizona: Siemens will be delivering 14 environmentally-friendly transformers for the Glen Canyon Dam power plant, located on the Colorado River in Norther Arizona, USA.
USA, Massachusetts: To enhance the reliability of France’s power grid infrastructure, Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE) has selected Doble to provide insulation analyser solution to closely track the condition of its thousands of measurement transformers.
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, Oregon: Pacific Crest Transformers (PCT) has announced that it has added to its factory capacity in Medford, Oregon, doubling the size of its largest transformer. It will now be able manufacture transformers up to 30 MVA.
USA, Ohio: Fire crews battled flames and heavy smoke at the American Electric Power’s Gavin Plant in Cheshire, Ohio on Sunday afternoon.
USA, Oregon: Pacific Power is building a 500 kV Snow Goose substation in Klamath Falls, Oregon, a project estimated to cost more than $60 million.
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, West Virginia: FirstEnergy is building a new $63 million substation to help support the oil and gas industry, but also to improve service for customers in three counties in West Virginia.
USA, Maryland: Maryland electric utilities Ocean Pines and Choptank Electric Cooperative installed a third transformer in the community this year to serve growth in Ocean Pines.