Even $1.3 million toys sometimes want to be returned. That was the case this week with Nixa's latest transformer, a 70 MVA behemoth. Nixa city officials were told by Southwest Power Administration workers that plates inside the transformer had shifted during transportation, either on the boat or the truck, and they did not feel easy refreshing it.

SPA workers got the crane back out and overloaded the 68.5 ton transformer on the tractor trailer again and headed back to Houston enroute to Brazil, its country of origin. In the meantime, New Madrid, Missouri's 70 MVA transformer, which was shipped alongside Nixa's new unit, is now in place in Nixa.The city of a little more than 3,000 near the Illinois border will receive the repaired MVA sent back for repairs, SPA officials said.

Brian Denney, electric superintendent for the city of Nixa, said the new transformer is energizing at this very moment, with potential to carry its load early next week.

“This transformer improve is a project recognized in the 2004 system study because of the load growth on the electric system," Colvin said. "The mutual project is approximately $1.3 million, with approximately $900,000 of that coming from the city of Nixa. This transformer replaces a 1960s model 25 MVA that has surpassed its lifetime and is too small to carry Nixa's electric load."

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