For more than 60 years, our Athens, Georgia facility has led in the production of reliable, energy-efficient distribution and cooling solutions. Offering products that range from single-phase and three-phase pole-type transformers to new padmount solutions, we pride ourselves in providing responsible value to customers, associates, and the communities they serve.
With the shortest manufacturing cycles in the industry, extraordinary storm response, and unique designs that make our transformers safer and greener than the industry standard, Power Partners is more than a manufacturer. We’re a leader in innovation — and we’re 400 employees strong, all ready to meet your distribution transformer needs.
A Spire Power Solutions company
Spire is your one source for proven power solutions. We bring together the industry’s widest range of transformers and power solutions to serve utility, renewable energy, public power, commercial, and industrial markets across North America. With rapid response times and over 100 years of operations and engineering expertise, Spire delivers a complete range of proven products, services, and support tailored for your success.
Built to a higher standard
Committed to sustainability
Power Partners proactively prevents pollution to protect people and our planet. We continuously improve our processes to reduce energy and water intensity, water consumption, landfill waste, and scrap in our manufacturing process.
Always improving — for 60 years and counting
Originally a renowned Westinghouse facility, our Athens headquarters has earned an esteemed reputation in the transformer manufacturing space. As of today, we’ve produced more than 9 million transformers for customers throughout the Americas.
1958
Westinghouse establishes an overhead transformer segment, operating out of a facility in Athens, GA
1989
ABB acquires Westinghouse
2003
Power Partners purchases the Athens, GA facility from ABB
2003
Power Partner establishes a sales relationship with ABB, leveraging its sales resources to represent the new ownership
2005-2007
Power Partners protects key alliance customers from industry raw material shortages, solidifying key relationships
2009
Power Partners offers new PULL program with two-week lead-times on high volume items
2010
Power Partners adds round tank submersible transformers to product line
2014
Power Partners launches the EZ Lift Eyebolt
2016
Power Partners is sold to an investment group
2016
Builds two high-volume production lines and improves plant layout
2019
Receives first single-phase pad-mount orders and begins manufacturing the new product line for customers throughout the U.S.