Hitachi Energy transformers
Zurich-based grid equipment maker investing over $1 billion in North American transformer capacity.
Facts
- Headquarters
- Zurich, Switzerland
- US manufacturing
- US plant verified
- Transformer types
- power, GSU, substation, pad-mounted distribution, HVDC
- Product classes
- Large power, GSU, Substation, Pad-mount
- Parent company
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Announced capacity
- $1.5B global transformer investment through 2027 (POWER 2024; Utility Dive 2025); $500M in North America through 2027 (Utility Dive 2025); $457M South Boston, Virginia LPT plant, set to be the largest US LPT plant by 2028; $106M Alamo, Tennessee components expansion; CA$270M Varennes, Quebec buildout to nearly triple LPT output (POWER, Jan 2026).
- Checked
Sources
- Hitachi Energy accessed 2026-11-09
- Wikipedia: Hitachi Energy accessed 2026-11-09
- Transformers in 2026: Shortage, Scramble, or Self-Inflicted Crisis? (POWER, 2 Jan 2026) accessed 2026-11-09
- The Transformer Crisis: An Industry on the Brink (POWER, 26 Jun 2024) accessed 2026-11-09
- Utility Dive, 12 Feb 2025 accessed 2026-11-09
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Lead times for these classes, sourced and dated, are on the transformer lead times tracker.