Sep 16, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Almost every transformer on the power grid — the humming boxes that step voltage up at a power plant and back down on your street — is built around a core of grain-oriented electrical steel. In the United States, exactly one mill still makes it. That single dependency...
Aug 16, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
The machine deciding how fast the United States can electrify is not a solar panel, a gas turbine or a battery. It is the large power transformer — a hundred-year-old block of steel and copper the country imports 82% of, now on a two-to-four-year wait, whose core...
