Distribution transformers provide power to which customers?

Distribution transformers provide power to which customers?

• A. Small factories, businesses, or residences
• B. Large industrial facilities
• C. Transmission networks
• D. Generation plants

Answer: (A)

A distribution transformer lowers the high voltage from the local distribution network to the lower voltage that end users can safely use. It’s placed close to customers so homes, small businesses, and light factories can receive power at voltages like 120/240 V or 208/120 V. That’s why the typical customers served by distribution transformers are small factories, businesses, or residences. Transmission networks operate at much higher voltages and feed substations and distribution lines, not directly to individual end users. Generation plants are the power source, not consumers. Large industrial facilities may be fed at higher voltages or via larger substations, rather than through a standard distribution transformer intended for typical residential and small commercial service.

A distribution transformer lowers the high voltage from the local distribution network to the lower voltage that end users can safely use. It’s placed close to customers so homes, small businesses, and light factories can receive power at voltages like 120/240 V or 208/120 V.

That’s why the typical customers served by distribution transformers are small factories, businesses, or residences. Transmission networks operate at much higher voltages and feed substations and distribution lines, not directly to individual end users. Generation plants are the power source, not consumers. Large industrial facilities may be fed at higher voltages or via larger substations, rather than through a standard distribution transformer intended for typical residential and small commercial service.