#USA

USA, Pikeville: Kentucky Power has completed two substation upgrade projects totalling about $15 million near Elkhorn City and Pikeville, bolstering reliability in eastern Kentucky.

USA, California: More than 43,000 people in Berkeley, Albany, El Cerrito, Richmond and San Pablo, California experienced a massive power outage after a power transformer at an El Cerrito substation exploded on Monday morning.

USA, Queensland: Queensland’s electricity operator Powerlink is investing $15.5 million (AUD20 million) in an overhaul of a substation in the Gladstone region in Central Queensland which feeds most of Central Queensland and major industrial sites such as the Boyne Smelter and Yarwun.

USA, Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh-based steel producer Allegheny Technologies announced the elimination of 250 jobs in the company’s flat-rolled products division.

USA, North Carolina: Multiple fire departments responded to a large transformer fire and a subsequent oil fire on Monday evening at Southern Power Plant Rowan in Salisbury, North Carolina.

USA, New Jersey: Cast resin transformer manufacturer Jinpan International Limited has announced that the company’s shareholders voted in favour of the proposal to authorize and approve the previously announced merger agreement among the company, FNOF E&M Investment Limited and Silkwings Limited.

USA, Arkansas: Arkansas Public Service Commission (APSC) staff has approved Entergy Arkansas’ proposal to build a 500/161 kV transmission substation and the related transmission line terminal facilities to be located in Craighead County, Arkansas.

USA, Pittsburgh: As the United States Trade Representative called a hearing on the global steel industry and its impact on the U.S. steel industry and steel market, United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard urged the U.S. Government to create an immediate action plan on US steel crisis, reports Sys-Con Media.

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, Massachusetts: General Electric announced its headquarters will move to the Seaport District of Boston along Necco Street, reports Electric Light & Power.

USA, Delaware: Large U.S. utilities are joining forces to fund the creation of a new Delaware company, Grid Assurance LLC., which will stockpile critical pieces of electrical equipment that can be rushed to power companies if they are hit by terrorist attacks, earthquakes or other disasters that could cause extended blackouts.

USA, Michigan: A large power transformer holding 113,500 litres of cooling oil failed on Friday afternoon at the Cook Nuclear Plant in Michigan, leaking the oil.

USA, California: Southern California Edison (SCE) plans to replace transformers, switches and cables in downtown Santa Barbara as part of an $11 million project to reduce the number of power failures throughout the city.

USA, Georgia: MIDEL natural ester-based transformer fluid (MIDEL eN) is now manufactured, sold and distributed in the United States.

USA, California: The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) board of Governors has approved 13 new projects under the 2016 electricity transmission plan.

USA, New Mexico: A team led by Sandia National Laboratories, US Department of Energy research and development national laboratory, has developed a way to make a magnetic material that could lead to lighter and smaller, cheaper and better-performing high-frequency transformers.

USA, Washington D.C.: The US Department of Energy (DOE) has approved the development of the Clean Line Energy’s $2.5 billion Plains & Eastern Line transmission project in an effort to modernize the grid and accelerate the renewable energy deployment, reports EBR.

USA, Wisconsin: Solomon Corporation, a Kansas-based company specializing in the procurement of high-voltage and distribution transformers, will open a new facility in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin next month, THOnline reports.

USA, Washington D.C.: On 4 September 4 2015, the U.S. Department of Commerce published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on large power transformers from the Republic of Korea.

USA, Arizona: One of the largest green energy projects in Arizona is expected to receive green light from the Mohave County Board of Supervisors on 21 March.

USA, Ohio: FirstEnergy Corp. is expanding a transmission substation in Leroy Center to help reinforce the electric system, support load growth and enhance reliability in The Illuminating Company’s northeast Ohio service area.

USA, South Carolina: A transformer at the Oconee nuclear power plant in South Carolina caught fire on Sunday 6 March, burning for about 30 minutes, but no nuclear material was in danger of being released, Reuters reports.

USA, Utah: Lehi Power Director Joel Eves revealed that the company needs two more substations within the year to meet business and residential energy demands in the city of Lehi, Utah.

USA, Texas: Dallas firefighters responding to an office building fire found an electrocuted man on top of a transformer unit.