Good one
Posted on 10/01/2022 2:35:10 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
*snip* Nationally, however, there is a shortage of distribution transformers that take electricity from high-voltage lines and reduce it to levels that can be used in homes and businesses, industry officials said.
“It’s a critical component to the electrical grid that has been in scarce supply for a number of months now,” said Joy Ditto, president and CEO of the American Public Power Association. “We started to recognize it as a national concern in late winter, early spring, and the situation is getting worse.”
It used to take about three months for a transformer to show up after being ordered, but now it is taking more than a year, Ditto said. She said that is limiting the ability of companies to stockpile the boxes, and as a result, they are increasingly swapping boxes with utilities facing a shortage.
There are about a half-dozen U.S. manufacturers of the transformers that are dealing with labor and raw-materials shortages. Ditto said the main choke point is the specialty steel used in transformers — there is only one U.S. manufacturer for that. Her group and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association asked the Energy Department in May to suspend a 2016 efficiency standard that they say is partly responsible for the steel shortage, but the department has not gone along.
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but the department has not gone along.
Of course not: it would be a positive and helpful step.
This is all so deliberate. Its to the point of being evil.
This article could be true, but power companies in Florida and other areas prone to storms, usually have supply on hand to handle major storms like this one. This isn’t the first rodeo for Florida utility companies. Florida has not had a major hurricane in the past few years so they should be ready to handle something like the current storm.
It was at that point 15 years ago.
IN short this problem is being caused by brain dead liberal bureaucrats... As far as the larger transformers - rumor is none are made in the US.
It has occurred to me that supply issues for lumber and other rebuilding materials will present significant problems for Floridians. Just building a house today is a contractor’s nightmare.
Replacement appliances - three times the price and they don’t work as well. Also thanks to government regulation.
And of course part of the problem is unrealistic efficiency standards, probably from EPA. Just like much of the problem with new appliances sucking, is from overly aggressive, unrealistic efficiency and water use standards.
I work in electrical engineering and distribution design.
Every time I brought up an issue, I received a talking to.
This is what happens when some 25 years old MBA only looks at the current quarter financials.
There’s almost zero long term planning.
Today’s 25 y.o. MBA has grown up believing there won’t even BE a future so why plan for it. “Climate change”?
“There are about a half-dozen U.S. manufacturers of the transformers that are dealing with labor and raw-materials shortages. Ditto said the main choke point is the specialty steel used in transformers — there is only one U.S. manufacturer for that. Her group and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association asked the Energy Department in May to suspend a 2016 efficiency standard that they say is partly responsible for the steel shortage, but the department has not gone along.”
Most of the problems in the country can be chased back to one source: GOVERNMENT. Too big, too onerous, too intrusive, too uncaring, etc.
Good one
Transformers? Hell I’ve been waiting on a double meter base for a double house now 7 months.
There’s a long wait on CT’s & PT’s as well.
And switchboards with electronic breakers because of the chip shortages.
Yup, it’s a total SNAFU.
I want to reach out and strangle the bitch for a problem we've all known about for DECADES!!!
My impact windows have an 18 to 35 week wait time due to supply chain issues. Welcome to the party, pal.
Joe Biden, Greenie Weenies, etc.: WE DID THAT!!!
Just in time inventory was always a crackpot idea—and I am one of those old-timer MBAs talking.
In my personal life I am a fanatical hoarder—never trusted long supply chains.
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