#USA

USDA is providing $64 M to finance smart grid technologies that improve system operations and monitor grid security.

Australian engineering company Worley is designing the offshore substations for the 700 MW Revolution Wind offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island, US.

After being rejected twice, Missouri’s Grain Belt Express transmission project finally receives the regulators’ approval.

The power transmission infrastructure developer submitted bids for two battery energy storage projects, with a cumulative capacity of 400 MW,

Royal Smit Transformers has used Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro vessels) to ship five transformers from Belgium to the USA.

USA, Colorado: A Denver-based company, Anschutz Corporation, plans to start building a $3 billion, 725-mile (1,166 km) TransWest Express transmission line in 2020.

USA, Massachusetts: National Grid Saudi Arabia has contracted Doble Engineering Company, a subsidiary of ESCO Technologies Inc., for advanced services to support a new phase of its power grid reliability initiative, which will expand transformer health programs into additional regions.

USA, West Virginia: Utility company Potomac Edison has completed equipment upgrades at a substation in Jefferson County, West Virginia, to enhance service reliability and help meet high winter demand for electricity for about 2,200 customers in the Ranson and Charles Town areas.

USA, California: A blown transformer in San Ramon, a suburban city located east of San Francisco, caused a widespread blackout in the area affecting 26,000 people.

USA, Georgia: Clean Line Energy and GE Energy Connections have announced their collaboration in the development of America’s largest clean energy infrastructure project, the Plains & Eastern Clean Line, which is the first overhead high voltage direct current (HVDC) project to be developed in the U.S. in more than 20 years.

USA, Tennessee: America’s newest nuclear reactor was shut down only four days after it was declared complete and commercially viable on 23 October, due to a transformer failure.

USA, Wisconsin: Dairyland Power Cooperative is one of the announced 82 electric projects in 31 states to receive a loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

USA, Vermont: Vermont State regulators have approved a $3.65 million substation upgrade project to boost the capacity, reliability, and flexibility of Brattleboro’s electrical system.

USA: The U.S. department of Agriculture (USDA) is providing $3.6 billion in loans to fund 82 electric projects across 31 states.

USA: An executive order from President Obama on space weather has been announced this month, trying to accelerate the efforts aimed at detecting, analyzing and responding to solar storm threats that could strike the United States.

USA, Chicago: According to the new smart grid market report published by Scalar Market Research, the smart grid market is expected to grow from $39.84 billion in 2016 and reach $83.81 billion in 2022, growing at an estimated CAGR of 13.20% during the forecast period.

USA, Pennsylvania: Construction has begun on a new FirstEnergy Corp. transmission substation near Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, to help meet the increased electrical usage of the area’s expanding Marcellus Shale gas industry.

USA, Minnesota: The Prairie Island nuclear plant began its 30th refueling of Unit 1, during which the plant operator plans to spend $50 million on the maintenance and new equipment.

USA, NY: Transparency market research has made available a new report on single phase transformers titled “Single Phase Transformer Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2016 – 2024”.

USA, Illinois: PowerVolt Group announced it has acquired Indiana Transformer in Addison, Illinois for an undisclosed sum.

USA, Los Angeles: Scattered transformer fires around Los Angeles left thousands of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) customers without electricity on Monday morning following the overnight rain storm.

USA, Utah: Last month someone with a high-powered rifle fired several shots and successfully disabled a substation owned by Garkane Energy Cooperative, leading to a day-long power outage for about 13,000 Utah residents.

USA, New Jersey: Montvale officials have inaugurated a new substation from Rockland Electric Company in Montvale, New Jersey.

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.