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Jackson Energy Cooperative Corporation, $26,940,000 - 135 miles
Salt River Electric Cooperative Corporation, $18,000,000 - 147
miles
Shelby Energy Cooperative, Inc., $20,000 - 192 miles
Minnesota
Crow Wing Cooperative Power and Light Company,
$21,000,000 - 168 miles
Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc., $6,198,000 - 70 miles
Missouri
Howard Electric Cooperative, $4,766,000 - 31 miles
Ralls County Electric Cooperative, $3,143,000 - 10 miles
Montana
Yellowstone Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc., $16,166,000 -
144 miles
NewMexico
Springer Electric Cooperative, Inc., $14,117,000 - 74 miles and a
1 MW photovoltaic facility
North Carolina
Rutherford Electric Membership Corporation, $18,500,000 -
60 miles
Tideland Electric Membership Corporation, $24,500,000 -
161 miles
Tri-County Electric Membership Corporation, $19,000,000 -
97 miles
Union Electric Membership Corporation, $50,000,000 - 384 miles
North Dakota
Cass County Electric Cooperative, Inc., $36,300,000 - 771 miles
Roughrider Electric Cooperative, Inc., $50,000,000 - 687 miles
Ohio
North Western Electric Cooperative, Inc., $4,800,000 - 45 miles
Oklahoma
Verdigris Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc., $21,000,000 - 231 miles
South Dakota
Central Electric Cooperative, Inc., $14,343,000 - 222 miles
FEM Electric Association, Inc., $5,752,000 - 197 miles
H-D Electric Cooperative, Inc., $6,385,000 - 102 miles
West River Electric Association, $22,870,000 - 160 miles
Whetstone Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc., $7,500,000 - 86 miles
South Dakota & Nebraska
Cherry-Todd ECI, $14,884,000 - 101 miles
Texas
North Plains Electric Cooperative, Inc., $21,656,000 - 348 miles
Grid Modernization Efforts
Stabilize Demand for T&D Services
T
he Environmental Protection
Agency’s impending regula-
tion to lower power plants’
carbon emissions is pro-
jected to shape demand for transmission
and distribution (T&D) services. Working
towards the goal of cutting emissions by
30 percent by 2030 from the 2005 levels,
utilities have already achieved reductions
of 14 percent. Ongoing work in terms of
network renewal, new generating capac-
ity, and reconfigurations will translate
into revenue growth for the T&D services
market.
New analysis from Frost & Sulli-
van, Analysis of the North American
Transmission and Distribution Services
Market, finds that the market earned
revenues of $20.43 billion in 2013 and
estimates this to reach $20.94 billion
in 2018. Key market segments of T&D
services are engineering and consul-
tancy, construction, and operations and
maintenance.
The North American T&D services
market has benefited from major invest-
ments in generation, transmission,
and distribution infrastructure in both
Canada and the United States. These
investments are driven by the need to:
• Renew aging equipment
• Improve reliability and performance of
electrical networks
• Ease grid congestion
Utilities are making considerable in-
vestments to protect T&D infrastructure
from natural and man-made disasters.
For instance, in the wake of devastation
caused by Hurricane Sandy in October
2012, utility companies redoubled their
efforts to storm proof the distribution
network. This proved to significantly
boost the T&D services market.
“Despite greater outsourcing of T&D
tasks, the market has remained conser-
vative in certain areas,” said
Frost & Sul-
livan Energy & Environmental Principal
Consultant Farah Saeed. “Small electrical
jobs and support for distribution volt-
age projects are still offered in-house;
however, there is growing demand for
external support for numerous transmis-
sion projects.”
With utilities, especially investor
owned-utilities, increasingly evaluating
financial performance, there is a keen
desire to slash non-critical investments
and outsource non-core activities to save
on all aspects of maintenance. While
this bodes well for T&D players, they
are also diversifying their operations in
new verticals and acquiring companies
to counter the sluggish investments over
the last decade.
Nevertheless, the revenues from trans-