USA - Shortage of transformers is jamming up home building and threatening to cause other problems. In some cases, wait times for the parts are over a year, while costs have spiraled up by over 500%.
American Public Power Association - says roughly 80% of its members reported earlier this year they had less equipment on hand than in 2018, before the pandemic interrupted supply chains. (Investor-owned utilities have also reported similar shortages.)
Background:
U.S.A. - A surge in decommissioning fossil fuel power plants has outpaced new clean energy generation capacity.
US- Utilities are warning of supply constraints for equipment, which could hamper efforts to restore power during outages .
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) report from June warning of unreliable sections of electricity grid.
