Remote substations can be a challenge — and the utility responsible for providing electricity to Namibia and much of South Africa had several new remote substations that needed transformer protection.

When power outages occur — whether they’re due to natural disasters or other causes — you may hear unfamiliar words and terminology as officials explain the situation or provide updates. To provide ...

An early Sunday fire near the now-inactive Three Mile Island nuclear power plant damaged a large transformer at a nearby substation but did not threaten radioactive facilities. That’s according to ...

With the energy landscape changing, the legacy grid infrastructure, which has been in place for decades, urgently needs upgrading. Gone are the days of distributed generation at large fossil-fuelled ...

On a sweltering July day this past summer, straphangers trying to get home on the J train were left to sweat it out on the platform. A 60-year-old power transformer in the subway system’s ...

Like many North Carolinians, you may have never considered electric substations before last week’s attack in Moore County. Their thickets of metal coils, bars and boxy transformers blend into ...