Hitachi Energy to invest $528 million in new transformer factory in Mississippi

By Laila Kearney and Kaori Kaneko NEW YORK/TOKYO, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Hitachi Energy plans to build a $528 million factory in ...
Bloomberg

The Device Throttling the World’s Electrified Future

An explosion, a fireball and then darkness: Heathrow Airport uses as much energy as a small city, and when a major fire at a substation caused the power to fail late Thursday, the world learned how ...
POWER Magazine

Beating the Transformer Bottleneck: Remanufacturing, Build-to-Stock, and Smart Procurement

Grid operators, utilities, and project developers are facing several enormous demands at once. They’re being asked to deliver capacity for a wave of new load from data centers, electric vehicle (EV) ...
Morning Overview on MSN

A giant grid transformer can take a year or more to replace after it fails

The electric grid depends on thousands of decisions happening correctly every second, but a handful of pieces of equipment ...
POWER Magazine

The Transformer Crisis: An Industry on the Brink

Facing unprecedented lead times and skyrocketing costs, the transformer supply chain crisis threatens the backbone of the electric power industry, driving urgent calls for increased manufacturing ...