grid modernization

Taipei – – October 14, 2026 -- Moxa has secured prequalification from Saudi Energy, the combined entity of Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) and National Grid (NG), for three industrial product categories: Ruggedized Industrial Ethernet Switches, Industrial Next-Generation Firewalls and Industrial Computers.

All three Moxa product lines join Saudi Energy's LOTAM supplier list

Saudi Energy has added the three categories to its List of Technically Acceptable Manufacturers (LOTAM). Moxa can now offer an integrated networking and computing package for critical energy infrastructure, including Substation Automation (SA) and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). The company also says its solutions can support the migration and modernization of legacy substations.

Atlanta – October 13, 2026 -- Landis+Gyr (SIX: LAND) has appointed Calgary-based Metercor to represent its entire product portfolio across Canada, extending the company's distribution reach in the Canadian utility market.

Metercor takes on sales, distribution and service support nationwide

Metercor, a Canadian utility system integrator, will provide sales, distribution and service support to Landis+Gyr customers across Canada. The company distributes utility solutions for electric, gas and water infrastructure.

The agreement covers Landis+Gyr's Revelo® platform of intelligent grid-edge sensors and its Surent® line of ultrasonic gas products. It also includes network and intelligent modules for water and legacy gas meters.

Buffalo – October 11, 2026 -- National Grid has completed a $32 million modernization of its 110-year-old Perry Street substation in Buffalo, adding 13,200-volt delivery to a site that previously supplied only 4,160 volts. The project is the first of about a dozen substations the utility plans to modernize or rebuild in the coming years.

Perry Street station adds 13,200-volt delivery for Larkinville and First Ward loads

The upgraded facility went online this past summer. It now serves some large loads in the Larkinville and First Ward areas of the city. The original substation was built in 1916, before large electricity loads were commonplace or anticipated.

National Grid Regional Director Ken Kujawa said the renovations responded directly to load growth in those districts, including projects that exceed 1 megawatt.

London – September 29, 2026 -- Reactive Technologies has launched Nyquist, a technology licensing programme giving utilities, technology providers and equipment manufacturers access to its patented Edge-to-Cloud AI foundation for grid measurement and analytics.

Nyquist opens core sensing and AI technologies to external partners

The programme lets partners integrate Reactive Technologies' proprietary capabilities directly into their own products, covering high-fidelity measurement and waveform capture, precise time-synchronisation, digital signal processing, edge AI, connectivity, data infrastructure and grid analytics. Partners avoid building these complex sensing and processing systems from scratch, cutting development time for grid-monitoring products.

Delray Beach, Fla. -- Aug. 31, 2026 -- The global transformer monitoring market will grow from $3.11 billion in 2026 to $4.98 billion by 2031, a 9.9% compound annual growth rate, according to MarketsandMarkets. The firm placed the 2025 market size at $2.84 billion. Utilities and industrial operators are driving the expansion by prioritizing transformer reliability and asset health as aging fleets and rising renewable integration strain existing grid infrastructure.