The move to create and update electricity grids across Asia will drive the distribution transformers market with a share of 48% and reach $6.94bn in 2022, says a report from market researcher GlobalData, although Europe is growing fastest.

A report from Navigant Research has identified 2,258 rid-based and remote microgrid projects in the planned, developing, and deployed stages across six geographies and seven microgrid segments. These produce 19,575.0 MW of power.

Researchers in the UK and Austria have shown that the coupling between two magnetic elements can be made extremely asymmetrical, creating a magnetic diode that would make power chargers significantly more efficient.