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PCCA Journal|4

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Quarter 2014

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Power News

Continued from page 13

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-