#New York

USA, New York: The New York State Public Service Commission recently approved the New York Energy Solution Project.

A transformer still smokes in the parking lot of the McDonald’s on Troy Schenectady Road after getting knocked down by a tree that now sits on the restaurant.

The next phase of construction for Orange & Rockland Utilities’ new $38.2M Port Jervis substation project calls for closing a part of West Main Street.

New York: The Government of New York has announced a funding of $341 M to rebuild an 138 km stretch of ageing Moses-Adirondack transmission lines.

Transformer fire left thousands of homes and businesses without it on January 12. All power has been restored to residents of the Rockaways, Queens, NYC.

The New York State Public Service Commission has approved PSEG Long Island’s request to build and operate the Western Nassau transmission project, a 11 km transmission line.

US, New York: New York Transco, a consortium of major utilities, has received approval for up to $400 M to add a new power transmission line.

New York: A wind farm with up to 68 turbines in Steuben County has been approved by New York’s Electric Generation Siting Board.

New York, US: The New York Power Authority Board of Trustees last month approved $34.3 M for upgrades at its Plattsburgh, Willis and Saranac substations in Clinton County.

US, New York: Electricity was restored to thousands of customers in New York City on Saturday evening after an outage that knocked out traffic lights, stalled elevators and limited subway service.

Trilantic North America announced that it has acquired a majority interest in Sunbelt Transformer.

NYPA approved $28 M to begin work on upgrades to a key high-voltage transmission line between the town of Marcy and the town of New Scotland.

Earlier this month the New York Independent System Operator approved two new transmission projects that would be the state’s largest transmission expansion in 30 years.

USA, New York: General Electric in Niskayuna, New York is one beneficiary of a $1.5 million initiative by the Department of Energy to produce large power transformers that are critical to the nation’s power grid.

USA, New York City: An underground transformer fire caused the lights and the air conditioning to go out Friday at the main Manhattan Criminal Court building.

USA, New York: A massive fire caused by a faulty transformer has engulfed a power substation in Hillburn, New York.

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, 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, 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, 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, New York: New York regulators have decided to move ahead with improvements proposed for over 250 kilometres (156 miles) of high-voltage transmission lines in the state of New York, US.

USA, New York: A new market report titled “Traction Transformer Market in Europe 2015-2019” has been made available.

USA, New York: After GE announced the completion of the acquisition of Alstom’s power and grid businesses, the company further announced that GE Power & Water and Alstom Power have combined to form GE Power.