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The first five out of planned 62 wind turbines at Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP)’s 806 MW Vineyard Wind project have begun to spin.

Ppower outages to traffic lights and a structure fire occurred on Monday in the town of Palm Beach, Florida.

Supply chain issues, new construction and demand outpacing manufacturing capacity are several factors behind the transformer shortage.

Siemens Energy plans to expand its transformer manufacturing facility, add jobs and invest almost $150 million in North Carolina over the next five years.

The DOE has announced a request for proposals (RFP) for the second round of the Transmission Facilitation Programme.

The CVOW project will begin construction after receiving final approvals from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Avangrid has announced that its first renewable energy project in Oklahoma will be constructed in Pontotoc County.

Hawaiian Electric is continuing restoration work to rebuild portions of the electric system in Lahaina to ensure power to West Maui customers following the August 2023 wildfires.

Thousands of residents were left without power after a fire and series of explosions at a local substation.

LS Electric Co. will supply about 120 billion won ($90 million) worth of power equipment to a new renewable energy site in the United States.

In 2021, a Semco Maritime and Bladt Industries consortium was awarded a contract for the supply of three substations for the 2.6 GW CVOW offshore wind project in the US.

The Department of Energy has announced $34 million for 12 projects across 11 states to strengthen and modernize America’s aging power grid.

The transmission line will link around 2000 MW of low-cost wind and solar resources in southwest Minnesota to the grid.

A transformer failure resulted in an island-wide outage on Kauai on Thursday afternoon, according to the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative.

The 806 MW Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind project has delivered power to the New England grid for the first time.

SunZia is a 550-mile ±525 kV high-voltage direct current transmission line between central New Mexico and south-central Arizona with the capacity to transport 3,000 MW of electricity.

About 673 miles of seven designated energy corridors are anticipated to be modified.

The Louisiana State Office of Natural Resources has granted Vestas an operating agreement to develop a near-shore wind project off the US Gulf coast.

ComEd has announced an expansion of its 765 kV Wilton Center substation, which will enable the largest cluster of renewable projects interconnected to the Illinois grid to date.

FirstEnergy subsidiaries Potomac Edison and MAIT have been awarded transmission projects worth more than $800 million.

The new power lines will connect Vassell Substation in Delaware County to two new substations near Green Chapel Road in New Albany, Licking County.

Washington state utility Puget Sound Energy (PSE) said it plans to build a 248 MW wind farm in Montana’s Stillwater County.

An electrical transformer on an Xcel Energy pole near downtown Littleton exploded and briefly caught fire, startling neighbors in the area and causing a power outage.

Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have installed the first five turbines at the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project.