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As well as having some large companies with wide portfolios, like GE, Cooper and Eaton, the American market is served a by a large number of medium and small companies, which are particularly active in regional markets of the US. There are about 20 major suppliers of power transformers in the US and over 90 companies manufacturing or importing distribution transformers. The distribution system of the US is highly fragmented, with over 3,000 distribution companies, some of them very small, and local suppliers have a strong presence amongst these. A second tier of transformer companies consists of large companies prominent in their own countries or regions but less important internationally, such as GE-Prolec in the USA; LS Cable Hyosung of Korea, all of which are international players; BHEL of India; Waukesha and Kuhlman of the US which are leaders in the MV transformer segment in North America. Other companies are nudging this segment of the industry. The principal Japanese T...

Wind energy is gaining in capacity and output with new, and bigger wind farms being developed and constructed at a breakneck pace around the world. A wind farm’s success is, however, largely dependent on that golden rule or real-estate: location, location, location. An efficient and successful wind farm needs large swaths of open space - be it on land, or offshore – and that key ingredient: the wind. Turbine and blade design are also very important factors in the achievable output of electricity and capacity of a wind farm. The below list takes a look at some of the world’s largest wind farms measured by nameplate capacity. Gansu Wind Farm, China By far the largest on-shore wind farm in the world is located in power-hungry China. Currently, China receives a large part of its electricity supply from coal-powered plants. All levels of the Chinese government are seeking to develop cleaner technologies to power their consumption. Though it is still under construction, this farm’s...

In most of Europe and North America, the electricity transmission and distribution grids reached maturity in the decades following the Second World War. The network was designed around central generating stations to power the grid. The grid was developed to reach a majority of the population and provide a stable source of electricity to industry and consumers, thus powering the growth of the post-war economies. This system has worked well for most of its life. Currently, however, these countries are seeing a transition to new forms of electricity transmission and distribution, as well as generation. Additionally, much of the infrastructure that was put in place in the post-war and subsequent years to develop the network is reaching the end of its useful life. Undergrounding The Netherlands and Germany are two European countries to be seen as examples in undergrounding. The entire distribution grid in the Netherlands, for example, is underground. Germany also has policies in p...

Electricity service is, by its nature a highly capital intensive and a politically constrained enterprise. It involves more than 3,000 companies; is owned by investors, municipalities, cooperatives, and federal agencies; and, is regulated by state and federal authorities whose jurisdictions overlap. Beginning with the Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act of 1978 and accelerating with the Energy Policy Act of 1992, orders to deregulate the electricity enterprise led to the partial dismantling of the institutional structure for the electricity sector . That structure has not been replaced by an alternative with coherent institutions and rules. As a consequence, elements of the diverse electricity sector are in crisis, and the effects have been spreading. The investor-owned utilities are operating under inconsistent and conflicting regulations. Market reforms, however well intentioned, have shown mixed success and have resulted in rules that differ from state to state and, in man...