Transmission & distribution: the full picture
ABS Energy Research has just published the fourth edition of its unique, "T&D Report – World Markets for Transmission and distribution Ed 4 2004". The T&D Report Ed 4 2004 contains detailed information and analysis of the transmission and distribution systems in every country in the world, including forecasts for the future.
(PRWEB) April 30, 2004 -- ABS Energy Research has just published the fourth edition of its unique, "T&D Report – World Markets for Transmission and distribution Equipment Ed 4 2004". The T&D Report Ed 4 2004 contains detailed information and analysis of the transmission and distribution systems in every country in the world, including forecasts for the future.
While there are many statistics available for electricity generation, the T&D Report is one of the first reports to give statistics and information for the transmission and distribution sector. The 4th Edition just issued is a significant enhancement of the previous report, with much additional data and analysis.
As before, the T&D Report includes statistics and forecasts for every country. This makes it, in Euan Blauvelts words (MD of ABS), ‘painstakingly unique. ABS has assembled an extensive bank of statistics over the last nine years, which now contains original data for 154 countries, covering line lengths and capacity and capital expenditure. Some of these sets of figures are extremely comprehensive, with detailed analysis going back for every year to 1960 and in a few cases to 1950. Most countries have measurements over a number of years and a few contain one measure for a single point in time."
For the first time the report includes a detailed analysis of transmission and distribution networks by voltage. Individual voltage tables are provided for 134 countries.
The report also gives analysis of Europes underground cables and overhead lines, both for transmission and distribution, with commentary on development is each country, including sub sea marine cable links.
Given the recent number of major power failures and the worlds anxious focus of electricity transmission, this report is timely. In the last few years system operators have developed advanced techniques for system monitoring which are having a radical effect on replacement policies. T&D equipment and materials generally have design lives between 30 to 50 years, but that does not necessarily mean they fail at the end of that period. Modern asset management techniques enable TSOs to maintain their network far more economically, replacing equipment when required not when it reaches its designated age. 80 year old equipment is being maintained perfectly efficiently and safely in advanced Western European systems. In Japan, the country that invented the JIT concept, the official industry data records an astonishing negative CAGR of 16.2% for the last eight years in T&D capex. Ten years ago Japan was responsible for no less than 21% of global T&D capex, by 2002 this had fallen to 4.4%.
We have more validation data available than ever before. Capital expenditure analysis is based on actual reports from individual countries amounting to 54% of the worlds total expenditure. In 2004, for the first time, the IEA issued estimates of global energy capital expenditure and these agree within 3.6% with ABSs estimates, which were derived and published four times in the last seven years.
For a full content summary or more information about this and other ABS Energy Research reports, please visit www.absenergyresearch.com.
Contact details:
Melany Krangle, ABS Energy Research, Sales & Marketing Director
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8255 3831
email: melanykrangle@absenergyresearch.com
Euan Blauvelt, ABS Energy Research MD
Tel. +44 (0)20 8871 2752
email:euanblauvelt@absenergyresearch.com
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