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Special Power: 'Flexible Transformer' Could Become The Grid’s New Superhero

Tomas Kellner
October 27, 2021

The world is mobilizing to meet net-zero emission targets over the coming decades, and it seems that everywhere you look, countries are erecting wind turbines in the fields and off the coasts, switching from coal to natural gas, adding hydropower storage, and studying the next generation of nuclear reactors. One component common to all these efforts, though, remains mostly out of sight of the public, if not out of mind for electrical engineers working to make this global energy transition happen. The component is the electrical grid.

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GE Research and Prolec GE Power Up World’s 1st Large Flexible Transformer to Enhance the Resiliency of America’s Grid

October 18, 2021
  • 100MVA flexible transformer has begun a 6-month field demonstration at a Cooperative Energy substation in Mississippi as part of a project through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity
  • Represents next generation of hardware required to support higher penetrations of renewable power on the grid
  • Will improve grid resiliency by offering more flexibility for fault management, frequency and voltage regulation through an online adjustable impedance
  • Poised to replace an aging U.S.

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Prolec GE completes acquisition of SPX’s Transformer Solutions business

October 04, 2021
  • The combined entity will remain a strong partner to its customers and will continue supporting the evolution of the grid in the US and the rest of the Americas.

Monterrey, N.L., Mexico, October 4, 2021 — GE-Prolec Transformers, Inc. (together with its affiliates, “Prolec GE”), a subsidiary of a 50/50 joint venture between GE (NYSE:GE) and Xignux, a Mexico-based private company, announced today it has completed the acquisition of SPX Corporation’s (NYSE: SPXC) SPX Transformer Solutions business.

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GE Renewable Energy
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Turn Me On: The World’s Largest Powerships Are Helping To Electrify Asia, Africa

Hong Chou Hui
September 20, 2016
A floating power plant isn’t something you see every day. The massive ships look like plants you’d see on land complete with tall exhaust stacks—except these plants are bobbing in the ocean.
They might look odd, but for people in growing economies around the world, the ships are a welcome sight. The floating power plants can dock in the harbor, crank up their turbines and start quickly generating electricity for customers on land.
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Transformers: Age of Esters. These Engineers Figured Out How to Make Mexico City’s Power Grid Safer

August 06, 2015
When a moderate earthquake shook Mexico City just after midnight in June 2013, an eerie staccato of bright flashes punctured the darkened metropolis. They came from distribution and power transformers exploding around the city. It wasn’t an isolated incident. In December of the same year, another exploding station transformer shut down an NBA game between San Antonio Spurs and Minnesota Timberwolves in the Mexico City Arena.
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