transformer

In Davis, Calif., the transformer on my block repeatedly blew up during heat waves, leaving us sweltering, sometimes for days at a time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Merz's trip was expected to announce some 350 million euros to help provide generators, transformer stations and for grid repairs, German government sources said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

The new transformer could become a “meaningful” source of revenue for the company in 2028, Nir said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

Noam Shazeer, the Character.AI co-founder and co-author of the famous 2017 transformer paper that led to the current AI revolution, recently left for OpenAI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

A geyser of sparks erupts deep within a house—an electrical transformer or hoarded fuel or maybe a delayed-action bomb—and it looks to him as if lightning lashes the town from within.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

Thomas Murphy, vice president for Power & Construction Group, an electrical-infrastructure contractor near Rochester, N.Y., said prices for transformers are up about 70% in the past five years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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

The high-voltage transformers in the courtyard also were showing their age; Brobeck appraised them as “equipment Marconi would have recognized.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik