Demand for large power transformers has become one of the defining challenges facing the power industry. Manufacturers are trying to build more, but they are doing it in a market where materials, labor, lead times, and supplier capacity can all slow things down. That means suppliers have to do more
Every unit of electricity entering a data center has a job to do. Ideally, all of that energy would reach the servers, storage systems, and networking equipment that perform the computing work we all rely on. In reality, electricity passes through a long chain of equipment before it reaches the
Large power transformers are not equipment that can be adjusted, recalibrated, or easily replaced once they are in service. By the time a unit is energized, it has already moved through years of planning, engineering, manufacturing, transportation, and installation. Utilities and manufacturers alike expect that when the switch is finally
Many times, large power transformer contamination problems don’t necessarily look like problems at all. In large power transformer core manufacturing, the biggest risks are often small and easy to miss if you don’t know what to look for. A tiny burr of steel, about the size of a fingernail clipping,
It’s hard not to notice how much has changed in the large power transformer world this year. Demand kept rising, projects kept increasing, and the grid continued modernizing. None of that was a surprise, but what did evolve this year was the understanding of what it actually takes to keep
