Cleveland-Cliffs ‘applauds’ DOE’s final transformer efficiency standard rule

Cleveland-Cliffs “applauded” the Department of Energy’s final transformer efficiency standard rule that will provide for the continued utilization of Grain-Oriented Electrical Stee in virtually all of Cliffs’ current distribution transformer end markets. The company said: “With this revised rule, the DOE acknowledged the fundamental importance of GOES and the essential role played by Cleveland-Cliffs steel plants in Butler, PA and Zanesville, OH in effectively sustaining the functionality of the U.S. electric grid. Cleveland-Cliffs and the United Auto Workers worked collaboratively to educate the DOE on the shortcomings of the originally proposed distribution transformer rule and the danger of relying on Amorphous Metal, which is produced in very limited volumes and exclusively from imported materials.”