The electricity sector and legacy steel companies are squaring off with a company in South Carolina over DOE’s transformer proposal. CONWAY, S.C. — On the outskirts of this sleepy coastal town, where ...

If you accidently touched an electrical motor as soon as it had stopped rotating at high speed, you would burn your fingers. But if the motor was made from a special kind of material known as an ...

Last January, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed a rule that would change the efficiency standards for the steel used in the cores of distribution transformers. The rule is now final pending ...

Almost all distribution transformers produced or imported into the U.S. could require amorphous steel cores starting in 2027 under new energy efficiency standards proposed by the Department of Energy ...

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to include comments from a U.S. Department of Energy spokesperson. DOE proposed new energy-efficiency standards for distribution transformers in December, ...

The lead times for new distribution system transformers can exceed two years, a problem that has been getting more attention in recent months as the situation worsened. In November, a broad coalition ...