Power Business Unit

The Head Office and Power Transformer manufacturing plant of Wilson Transformer Company are located on a four-hectare site in Glen Waverley, 20 km east of Melbourne’s CBD.

The Glen Waverley plant designs and manufactures generator, substation and auto transformers up to 250 MVA 362 kV, mobile transformers and substations, rectifier and furnace transformers, traction (both track-side and on-board locomotive) and other speciality transformers. Each transformer can be fitted with a conventional relay-based control and monitoring system or alternatively with the Dynamic Ratings DRMCC System.

Electrical design is completed using software ranging from the tender optimization program to sophisticated finite element modeling (FEM) computer programs. Our mechanical designers complete the internal and external design of a transformer using sophisticated 3D models and FEM of critical components. All design work is done in accordance with our quality management system.

Wilson Power transformers have been sold to customers throughout the world, including New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the UK. In recent years orders for over 70 power transformers up to 120MVA 275kV have been received from the UK.

All Wilson power transformers undergo comprehensive routine tests and appropriate type tests in accordance with the customer’s requirements, the appropriate standards and Company procedures.

Test equipment includes an impulse generator rated at 1.6 million volts 120kJ for full and chopped wave impulse tests, partial discharge measurement equipment and precise digital instrumentation for accurate measurement of losses.