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The Transformers Magazine team is excited to share the most read news articles that captured the interest of our readers in 2024.

Shell has announced a large investment at its manufacturing facility in Trafford Park, Manchester, set to expand the production capacity of its synthetic ester fluid.

Shell’s portfolio of MIDEL synthetic and natural ester-based transformer fluids will be available for customers in the Middle East in summer of 2025.

With the growth of the transformer market in the past years, the available volume of waste transformer oil will be insufficient to be the feedstock for a high share of circular products.

Google has signed corporate power purchase agreements (CPPAs) with Shell and Eneco for 478 MW of energy capacity at Hollandse Kust Noord and Hollandse Kust West VI.

Shell Lubricants (Shell) has completed its purchase of ester fluid businesses MIDEL and MIVOLT from M&I Materials Ltd

The Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm, built by CrossWind, a joint venture between Shell and Eneco, went into operation on 20 December.

The Shell Diala range of high-performance transformer oils has been engineered to extend oil drain intervals and keep users’ components in service for a longer period of time – even in harsh conditions.

M&I Materials Limited has signed an agreement with Shell U.K. Limited for the sale of its MIDEL and MIVOLT businesses.

Africa: Daystar Power, a West African provider of hybrid solar power solutions, has announced its acquisition by Shell.

Netherlands: UK’s Reading-based renewables company Anesco has completed the construction of three solar farms in the Netherlands for Shell.

Shell has launched Shell Diala S5 BD, a new biodegradable transformer oil made from gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology.

TenneT has selected the consortium of ENGIE Fabricom and Iemants to produce, deliver and install a substation for the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm.

Over the next five years the insulating oil market will register a 6.2% CAGR in terms of revenue, the global market size will reach $3070 million by 2024.

Japan, Tokyo: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. (MEPPI), a Mitsubishi Electric’s subsidiary based in the North America, shipped its first high-capacity 765 kV power transformer to a U.S utility company American Electric Power (AEP) at the end of April.

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