Changzhou Xidian Transformer

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Delivered world's largest smart transformer December 2024

In August 2023, wind turbines in China's far west nearly crashed the entire national grid. Low-frequency oscillations from poorly integrated wind farms in Xinjiang threatened a blackout across the world's most populous country. Twenty-eight months later, the crisis has intensified. In early 2025, curtailment rates nearly doubled—solar waste jumped from 3% to 5.7%, wind from 3.9% to 6.6%. Record installations overwhelmed transmission capacity. Tibet now throws away one-third of its renewable electricity. China's answer: a 750 million volt-ampere AI-controlled smart transformer and over $83 billion in annual grid investment to stabilize a system buckling under its own clean energy success.

Updated May 16