Amorphous Transformer
GE’s amorphous metal core technology reduces the loss of electricity from distribution transformers, helping to meet electricity demand more efficiently.
Environmental Benefit
GE’s amorphous metal core technology reduces the loss of electricity from distribution transformers, helping to meet electricity demand more efficiently. If 25% of all 1.1 million distribution transformers that are installed each year in the U.S. and Mexico were to use GE’s amorphous metal core technology rather than high efficiency silicon steel, the annual energy savings could avoid more than 110,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions from electricity generation on the U.S. grid – equivalent to the annual CO2 emissions of approximately 21,500 cars on U.S. roads.
Operating Benefit
GE’s amorphous metal core distribution transformers provide cost savings to utilities. A typical electric utility that serves half a million customers and installs 4,000 distribution transformers could save $1.6 million from reduced electricity losses over the lifetime of those transformers by choosing the amorphous metal core technology rather than high efficiency silicon steel – an investment with a payback period of approximately 6 months.
