The costliest piece of equipment in a substation is the Power Transformer. Therefore, a good maintenance program is required to keep these power transformers operating reliable. Over the past few ...

According to David Claassen, managing director of Trafo Power Solutions, the growing interest in dry-type transformers reflects a shift towards electrical infrastructure that considers not only ...

When commercial or industrial entities perform criticality assessment of their infrastructure assets, main transformers with power ratings of 500 KVA and above usually rank very high in the Risk ...

The electric grid depends on thousands of decisions happening correctly every second, but a handful of pieces of equipment ...

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Northwestern Ontario’s relationship with electrical infrastructure is unlike that of most Canadian regions. Thunder Bay sits ...

Electric power is generated most economically at 14 to 25 kV.1 System loads such as motors, lights, and so on, require a voltage source of 440, 220, and 110 V. Transformers are needed to change the ...

If you have power factor correction capacitors, should you skip insulation power factor testing on your transformers? The answer is "no." Those PF capacitors have no bearing on the question. This is a ...