Newfoundland Power is the first utility in North America to come up with a more environmentally-friendly alternative to the mineral oils used in transformers. Vice President of Customer Operations with Newfoundland Power, Jamie Mullins, says mineral oil becomes a problem when it leaks, or ends up in the environment. He says when it escapes from a distribution transformer, which happens from time-to-time, it requires environmental remediation which can be “disruptive and expensive.”Newfoundland Power has come up with a biodegradable, synthetic alternative to the mineral oil. The use of biodegradable esters will be explored through a pilot project introduced by Newfoundland Power and made possible through $101,532 in green transition funding from the provincial government. Mullins calls it a “significant step” in finding ways to reduce the utility’s environmental impact. Newfoundland Power has identified a commercially-available…
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