by Muhammad Usman | 2023, October, 30 | Articles, Switchgear
• To avoid transmission system congestion, the Department of Energy (DOE) has taken initiatives such as launching the Grid Deployment Office and Building a Better Grid Initiative, and, most recently, unveiling the Coordinated Interagency Transmission Authorizations...
by Kamil Maqsood, Azhar Fayyaz, Mike Sheppard | 2023, September, 22 | Articles, Transformers
• A significant increase in the demand for transformers, including distribution and power transformers, is observed in the global transformer market.• Due to supply chain issues, the lead time of both the power and distribution transformers has increased...
by Kamil Maqsood, Saifa Khalid | 2023, September, 21 | Articles, Switchgear
• Owing to a range of factors, demand for switchgear has increased in the global switchgear market post-Covid, which has, in turn, increased the prices of switchgear as well. • The power sector is one of the major drivers of the demand in the global switchgear market....
by Kamil Maqsood | 2023, September, 6 | Articles, Transformers
• The Ukraine war intensified energy security concerns in Europe, in turn pushing countries in the region to reduce dependence on Russian fossil fuels. • Collectively, they have set a very ambitious target to deploy 120 GW of offshore wind generation capacity by 2030...
by Kamil Maqsood | 2023, September, 4 | Articles, Transformers
• In the last decade, major economies moved away from nuclear energy to produce electricity, including Germany and Japan, which was a direct consequence of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster that took place in 2011. • As the EU aims for net-zero carbon...