archive of https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-bottlenecks-transformers/ #news about how #manufacturing of #transformers is a bottleneck for electrifying... the world? Somehow I doubt that; it seems like the kind of problem China is good at solving. The article mentions the UK, the #USA, Europe, India, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine, before getting to China, where the vast majority of electrification is happening, and then says, “China, on the other hand, has been growing transformer manufacturing for years that feeds both its growing domestic electricity demand and rising export needs.” Also microgrids don’t need the kind of giant transformers that require a lead time of a year. And Bloomberg’s reporting here is plagued with false statements of fact, claiming that all transformers are at least as big as a household trash can, and that “a quirk of history” made the grid dependent on them, namely that Edison lost the War of the Currents. #politics #energy
on 02026-04-03in 02013 some dumbfuck shot a PG&E substation full of holes with sniper rifles, damaging 17 #transformers.
on 02026-04-03