USA, Washington D.C.: On 4 December 2015 President Obama signed into law the so-called “FAST Act”— Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act – which includes energy security amendments to the Federal Power Act (“FPA”), several of which affect utilities and other parties in the electric industry such as regulators, owners, operators, and users of electric generation and transmission infrastructure.
USA, Washington D.C.: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a proposal under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act that a person importing into the United States any covered product or equipment, including power transformers, subject to an applicable energy conservation standard provide a certification of admissibility to the DOE.
USA, Oregon: Pacific Crest Transformers (PCT) announces has opened a new manufacturing facility in Monterey, Mexico, adding to the company’s overall capacity and creating more jobs at the Medford, Oregon facility.
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, Michigan: 455-ton transformer blocked traffic in Oshtemo Township, Michigan on its way to a new electric substation in Van Buren County’s Almena Township.
USA, Arizona: Siemens will be delivering 14 environmentally-friendly transformers for the Glen Canyon Dam power plant, located on the Colorado River in Norther Arizona, USA.
USA, Massachusetts: To enhance the reliability of France’s power grid infrastructure, Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE) has selected Doble to provide insulation analyser solution to closely track the condition of its thousands of measurement transformers.
USA, North Carolina: Duke Energy gifted a single-phase transformer to Richmond Community College (RCC) specialized electric program (EUSRT), and had it delivered and installed in the campus substation.
USA, Oregon: Pacific Crest Transformers (PCT) has announced that it has added to its factory capacity in Medford, Oregon, doubling the size of its largest transformer. It will now be able manufacture transformers up to 30 MVA.
USA, Ohio: Fire crews battled flames and heavy smoke at the American Electric Power’s Gavin Plant in Cheshire, Ohio on Sunday afternoon.
USA, Oregon: Pacific Power is building a 500 kV Snow Goose substation in Klamath Falls, Oregon, a project estimated to cost more than $60 million.
USA, Los Angeles: Southern California Edison, U.S. second-largest investor-owned utility, plans to invest $12 billion over the next three years to modernize the electric grid.
USA, West Virginia: FirstEnergy is building a new $63 million substation to help support the oil and gas industry, but also to improve service for customers in three counties in West Virginia.
USA, Maryland: Maryland electric utilities Ocean Pines and Choptank Electric Cooperative installed a third transformer in the community this year to serve growth in Ocean Pines.
USA, New York: A new market report titled “Traction Transformer Market in Europe 2015-2019” has been made available.
USA, Utah: A transformer weighing over 450 tons arrived at the Monticello fairgrounds in San Juan County, Utah, after a week of traveling by truck at speeds of 4-16 kph through New Mexico, Arizona and Utah.
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.
USA, New York: A new report by TechNavio is available titled “Global Transformer Monitoring Solutions Market 2015-2019.”
As of 29 October 2015 the European Union imposed a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain grain-oriented flat-rolled products of silicon-electrical steel originating in the People’s Republic of China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and the United States of America, the EU Official Journal states.
USA, Washington DC: GE has announced the signing of four infrastructure projects valued at over $1 billion in the presence of the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, during his state visit to the United States.
USA, Ohio: AK Steel, a U.S.-based producer of electrical steels, has announced senior management changes as its Board of Directors approved the promotion of several members of its executive management team.
USA, New Mexico: The heaviest load ever to be transported on New Mexico public roads will be a power transformer coming through the Four Corners this week, according to the New Mexico Department of Transportation.
USA, Oregon: The Umatilla Electric Cooperative (UEC) received a $43 million loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for system upgrades, as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Electric Program announced and reported by Transformers Magazine a few days ago.
USA, Pennsylvania: Sunbelt Transformer, a Grey Mountain Partners affiliate company, announced it is acquiring California-based Delta Testing Services Inc. (Delta Testing), an electrical services company.