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Vice President Kamala Harris of the USA and two cabinet secretaries have celebrated the start of construction of a new high-capacity power transmission line.

Idaho Power, a unit of IDACORP, applied for a key regulatory certificate in Idaho for the Boardman to Hemingway (B2H) transmission line.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have announced a call for applications for the second cohort of the CECA program.

Virginia Transformer has announced it will officially inaugurate its new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Chihuahua on 10 February.

The APPA has expressed disappointment the funding to ramp up the production of distribution transformers has not been supported.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has proposed new energy efficiency standards for three categories of distribution transformers.

The president and CEO of the American Public Power Association says US electric utilities are experiencing a shortage of distribution transformers.

People are vandalizing electrical equipment in the USA at a pace unseen in at least a decade, amid signs that domestic extremists use blackouts to sow unrest.

The winter storm that brought heavy snow, high winds and brutal cold across the USA has left hundreds of thousands without power on Christmas morning.

TransWest Express has selected Siemens Energy to supply the high-voltage direct current transmission technology for the TransWest Express Transmission Project.

Hitachi Energy has announced being selected by Hydro-Québec for its HVDC technology for the transmission of electricity.

Duke Energy officials faced questions from state utility regulators in Raleigh on 12 December about the attack on two electrical substations in Moore County.

Several US electricity providers reported attacks similar to gunfire damaging two substations in North Carolina last week.

group of House Democrats is pushing Congress to use the powerful Defense Production Act (DPA) to rapidly produce electric transformers.

Duke Energy crews responded to widespread power outages this weekend and  found signs of vandalism of equipment at different sites.

Cummins (CMI) has recently announced that through its subsidiary Meritor, it has completed the acquisition of Siemens Commercial Vehicles business.

Frost & Sullivan have recognised Delta-X Research with the 2022 North American Enabling Technology Leadership Award for its DGA software.

Ziehl-Abegg, German manufacturer of electric drives and fans, plans to invest $104 M (€100 M) in the construction of a new US production plant.

The US Department of Energy has opened the first round of applications for $13 B in competitive funding for power grid projects.

A shortage of electrical transformers is impacting utility companies in Maine and across the USA.

GE has announced it has been awarded one of several projects supported by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop new grid resilient technologies.

Exelon Corp. CEO Chris Crane plans to retire from the utility at the end of this year and will pass the command to Calvin Butler Jr.

GE’s Grid Solutions and Power Conversion businesses are to provide GIS and transformers to Venture Global LNG’s Plaquemines LNG export facility in Louisiana.

USA: US-based PPL Corporation has partnered with Belgian transmission system operator Elia Group to develop power transmission solutions in New England, USA.