Plant performance measurement often stops at the point where power enters the plant switchyard. Yet minor transformer failures can have devastating impact on plant performance and system reliability.

AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution Div. (T&D) in India has announced the signing of a 19 million euros (Rs. 1,250 MINR) order with Up Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd. for what is expected to be the ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority today is trying to determine the cause of a fire in the switchyard of its Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant that started around 9:11 p.m. Tuesday night and took TVA fire ...

A transformer failure and fire at the Nalcor Energy Churchill Falls switchyard resulted in an oil spill Thursday night, says the provincial Crown corporation. Oil inside the transformer, which holds ...

The assessment team then performs a detailed inspection of switchyard components such as the generator busses, cable galleries and bus ducts, oil circuit breakers, disconnects, current and potential ...

A main bank transformer fire has put a halt to power ascension testing at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA’s) Watts Bar Unit 2 nuclear plant. The incident occurred at about 9:10 p.m., on August ...

Page 10 of your October 2003 issue included a quote by a representative of Doble Engineering stating General Electric is out of the large power transformer business (“Switchyard Transformers ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has reached another milestone in its effort to bring Watts Bar Unit 2 into commercial operation: The unit completed its final power ascension test—a 50% load ...

Digitization and automation have been focus areas for the Indian power grid over the last decade. During this period, the Power Grid Corp. of India Ltd. (POWERGRID), the central transmission utility ...

Contractors just hauled the last trailer off the four-acre gravel site that was once the K-732 switchyard Friday, adding another four acres to the portion of the East Tennessee Technology Park that is ...

Unlike residential and commercial installations, sometimes it’s difficult to determine the difference between a “service” and a “separately derived system” in an industrial setting. To better explain ...