March 17, 2026
How much downtime can your manufacturing facility afford? Every minute wasted carries a steep price tag. Industry data shows that the average cost of unplanned downtime is $9,000 per minute, with typical outages lasting 5 to 59 minutes. For a single transformer failure, that translates into potential losses of $45,000 to $531,000 per incident—before accounting … Early Warning Systems: How Hydrogen Monitoring Provides Key Intelligence into Transformer Health
Read More >March 13, 2026
The North American power grid faces a perfect storm of challenges. Transformer lead times have skyrocketed from approximately 50 weeks in 2021 to an average of 120 weeks in 2024, with large power transformers requiring up to 210 weeks—nearly four years—according to Wood Mackenzie research. Meanwhile, more than half of U.S. distribution transformers—roughly 40 million … Time to Replace Legacy Transformer DGA Monitors? Make the Switch to Self-Calibration.
Read More >March 2, 2026
Behavior of Solid-State Hydrogen Sensors Across Different Carrier Gases Picture this: inside a nuclear processing facility, hydrogen silently accumulates from radiolysis, corrosion reactions and isotope-handling operations. Undetected, it creeps toward the flammability threshold. Without continuous, reliable hydrogen monitoring, facilities face fire hazards, over-pressurization risks and containment challenges that could result in catastrophic failures. Hydrogen detection … TECH TALK: The Future of Nuclear Safety: Innovative Hydrogen Sensors That Work Where Others Fail
Read More >January 8, 2026
Imagine this scenario: It’s 3 AM when your phone rings. A critical transformer has failed, plunging thousands into darkness and triggering a cascade of system failures. The repair cost? Astronomical. The waiting time for a replacement transformer? Two years if you don’t have one standing by or on hold in production. The damage to your … Beyond Annual DGA Sampling: Why Transformer Monitoring Needs Hydrogen Sensors
Read More >August 12, 2025
Picture this: Fire department inspectors arrive at your modernized manufacturing facility, armed with handheld sensors, issuing warnings about dangerous carbon monoxide levels. Operations grind to a halt as safety protocols kick in. The inspectors want answers or worse yet, workers are evacuated. Costly investigations begin. But what if those alarms are not detecting carbon monoxide … Crying Wolf: How Hydrogen Sensors Solve False Alarms from CO Detectors
Read More >June 4, 2025
Imagine a bustling city sidewalk suddenly erupting in flames as an underground network transformer fails. Or picture entire city blocks plunged into darkness when aging infrastructure gives out without warning. Critical emergency services, businesses and residents stand to lose services for an indeterminate period, demonstrating the potential consequences of compromised network transformer failures that can … H2scan Breaks the Cost and Performance Barrier … Delivering a New Way to Monitor Network Transformers
Read More >March 24, 2025
Discover how the recent Heathrow transformer explosion could have been prevented with hydrogen sensing technology.
Read More >February 28, 2025
Discover how hydrogen monitoring provides early fault detection, prevents failures, and offers a cost-effective solution for transformer fleet management.
Read More >Learn how early hydrogen detection helps utilities prevent transformer failures, reduce costs, and optimize monitoring strategies for long-term reliability.
Read More >February 26, 2025
Explore how aging infrastructure, EV adoption, and renewables impact transformer reliability. Learn key insights from experts in our latest webinar
Read More >February 14, 2025
As the power industry evolves, so do transformer monitoring solutions. Read about emerging trends like the development of hydrogen-only analytics.
Read More >October 9, 2024
Explore risks of hydrogen in battery storage systems and learn best practices for safety, standards compliance and monitoring solutions with hydrogen sensors
Read More >July 22, 2024
Learn how hydrogen sensors can predict transformer failures to avoid costly disruptions, enhance safety and protect your transformer fleet with affordable and reliable monitoring.
Read More >April 3, 2024
The power sector is currently grappling with a triple threat; transformer supply chain disruptions, rising costs and aging in-service transformers. Currently, lead times for large transformers have surged to 120 to 210 weeks (about 4 years), in a stark increase from the 30-60 weeks potential delivery times pre-pandemic. At the same time, raw material commodity … Mitigating Transformer Aging: The Critical Triad of Heat, Moisture and Oxygen
Read More >January 31, 2024
Discover how H2scan’s online DGA monitors solve transformer issues with accurate hydrogen sensing and zero false alarms. Say goodbye to unreliable data.
Read More >August 21, 2023
H2scan’s Jeff Donato discusses “Best Practices and Guidelines for Battery Safety and Compliance” in Electricity Today.
Read More >April 25, 2023
Transformer fleets are under-monitored when it comes to dissolved gas analysis (DGA) testing for fault conditions. What can managers of electricity infrastructure assets do about this? H2scan’s Leon White has published an article in T&D World Magazine about hydrogen monitoring in transformers entitled, “Monitoring Hydrogen in Transformer Fleets.” This article explains how solid state hydrogen … Monitoring Hydrogen in Transformer Fleets
Read More >January 17, 2023
Hydrogen monitoring detects issues inside your transformer by alerting users to something inside potentially generating dangerous gas.
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