transformer

I learned my lesson after a heat wave in Davis, Calif.: A power surge from an exploding transformer fried the circuit board of my refrigerator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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

Investors did get an update on the solid-state transformer project, but seemed to focus on the here and now — the lower-than-expected revenue outlook, which was mostly thanks to softness in SolarEdge’s European business.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

Videos posted to social media appeared to show a plume of smoke rising from the stricken transformer.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

I have a brief vision of the semi sliding across the intersection into that pole, the showers of sparks from the damaged transformer.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

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

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

National Grid said the work involved constructing two new substations, installing transformers as well as laying 2km of underground cables.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 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