The U.S. electric utility industry has a long and reliable service track record. Long-term outages are rare but serious events. Long-term outages could pose a threat to the economy as well as national ...

Healthy transformers do not experience catastrophic failures overnight. As such, electric utilities need to look for early warning signs of an ailing transformer. By predicting a failure, utilities ...

William Fehrman had a 450,000-pound puzzle on his hands. A large power transformer in the utility executive’s service territory was sputtering toward the end of its useful life. Fehrman, president and ...

Eight electric power and energy companies have agreed to create a national stockpile of spare transformers and other essential grid equipment that could be deployed to help parts of the high-voltage ...

An emergency spare transformer program is a key part of the preparation for and rapid recovery from a high-impact, low-frequency (HILF) event, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said this week ...

A more efficient transformer can pay for itself many times over during its 25-year lifespan The transformer plays a key role in an electrical system’s efficiency and power quality, yet 95% of buying ...