Tom Skipp

Mar 25, 2025 | bloomberg.com | Akshat Rathi |Naureen Malik |Tiffany Tsoi |Tom Skipp

Share this articleAn explosion, a fireball and then darkness: Heathrow Airport uses as much energy as a small city, and when a major fire at a substation caused the power to fail late Thursday, the world learned how fragile our infrastructure can be. At the center of the chaos was a burning electrical transformer. The transformer is rarely considered as a linchpin of today’s technologically interdependent world, let alone as a key to the even more electrified future.