transformer
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Rasuwagadhi’s acting chief executive, Pushkar Amatya, deployed crews and equipment in a last-ditch search for people who might be trapped in the facility’s transformer cavern, but found no one there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The new transformer could become a “meaningful” source of revenue for the company in 2028, Nir said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
And in the town of Ergué-Gabéric, in Brittany, the punishing temperatures - around 40C - were too much for one electric transformer.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
The outage, which involved a transformer on the electricity grid, was related to extreme temperatures and did not injure anyone, the prefecture in the coastal department of Finistere said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Alighting on the corrected transformer pole, she waited for Susan to appear with food.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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The 33-year-old’s rounds include sniffing for burning equipment that could indicate overheating, feeling tubes for cracks and looking for faulty lighting or broken power transformers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Depending on the size of the site, you may also hear the thrum of transformers in substations channelling electricity.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
China already dominates the global market, as Cohen writes, in “wind turbines, high-voltage cables, transformers, solar panels, batteries, software to manage energy flows and more.”
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
TensorWave plans to use the fresh round of capital to scale up its operations by adding more data centers and buying generators, chillers, critical power-supply gear, transformers and other equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
A moment later they were talking together in a murmured rush of which Mary later remembered nothing, and walking through a silly landscape of reed beds and electrical transformers.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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Physical Science - Energy - Middle School
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