When a 46-year-old GE transformer at Duke Energy’s W.C. Beckjord generating station unit 5 failed, Duke corporate engineer John Flick pressed into service a 40-year-old spare transformer of questionable reliability, and sought options. A new transformer was not an option, as Flick needed a fast solution.
ABB’s TRES (Transformer Remanufacturing and Engineering Services)
organization, however, delivered just the option he needed. ABB TRES
offered to redesign and upgrade the failed transformer by replacing the
necessary components to make it new and reliable again - in only 15
weeks.