Motors and transformers are some of the most reliable pieces of equipment installed at power plants. However, inadequate maintenance can result in trouble. While regular testing and skilled evaluation ...

With increasing pressure to lower costs, utilities are looking for tools to maximize the benefit of each dollar spent. Maintenance crews and engineers have a hands-on technical understanding but often ...

The Town of Berlin Electric Department has announced two town-wide power outages scheduled for May to allow for maintenance on substation transformers, located on Schoolfield Street. The first outage ...

In the typical manufacturing plant, “maintenance” does not include attention to the electrical infrastructure. The focus of the typical maintenance department is on performing production equipment PMs ...

ELSCO Transformers reports that effective emergency transformer replacement minimizes downtime and financial loss, ...

Gert Nel, WearCheck’s transformer division manager, outlines the importance of DGA in transformer maintenance: “Dissolved gas analysis (DGA) is used mostly for fault detection in transformers, and it ...

Article 450, Part III provides the requirements for transformer vaults. The first requirement is that they be located where they can be ventilated to the outside without using flues or ducts, wherever ...