Power Grid Needs New Solutions | NOARK Electric

NOARK Electric and Chint group aren't just manufacturing transformers — they're solving the infrastructure gap between the high-voltage grid and the homes, businesses, and renewables that depend on it. At the 2026 IEEE PES T&D Show in Chicago, APC Media sat down with three experts from the NOARK Electric and Chint Group teams to explore how a global leader in high, medium, and low voltage components is navigating today's toughest grid challenges — from tight lead times and demand volatility to the next generation of space-saving distribution technology. 🔑 Key Takeaways: • NOARK Electric, a CHINT Group member, serves HV/MV/LV markets globally • Lead time pressures and fluctuating demand are the #1 challenge facing transformer projects today — and NOARK is meeting them head-on • Three macro trends reshaping the power transformer market: rapid renewable energy growth, grid modernization, and demand for resilient infrastructure • Pad-mounted transformers replace overhead poles with ground-level concrete pad installations — cutting costs, reducing downtime, and enabling safe, space-efficient distribution for residential, commercial, and industrial end users ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕐 CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Introduction & Event Overview 0:15 NOARK Electric & CHINT Group: Who They Are 1:05 Three Trends Shaping the Power Transformer Market 1:55 Pad-Mounted Transformers: The Future of Safe, Space-Efficient Distribution ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👤 GUESTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Bill Ryder | Regional Account Manager, NOARK Electric Allen Fu | Global Account Manager – US Market, CHINT Group Alice Yang | Director, NOARK Electric 🎙️ HOST Alan Ross | Managing Editor, APC Media ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 Follow us on LinkedIn for exclusive updates and behind-the-scenes moments: 👉 Power Systems Technology Page:   / power-systems-technology   👉 Transformer Technology Page:   / transformer-technology   👉 Women in Power Systems:   / women-power-systems   🌐 Visit our website to dive deeper into our offerings and discover valuable resources: https://powersystems.technology/ 📧Subscribe to our newsletter for exclusive content and stay in the loop with exciting developments: https://powersystems.technology/subsc... #NoarkElectric #ChintGroup #PowerTransformer #GridModernization #IEEEPESTD #PadMountedTransformer #HighVoltage #PowerSystems