How transmission efficiency standards can help utilities achieve sustainability goals

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How transmission efficiency standards can help
utilities achieve sustainability goals
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July 2021
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ACCC News

• Since January 1st of this year, 41 ACCC Conductor
  Projects have been completed, 58 are
  currently active and 64 additional ACCC Conductor
  installations are scheduled to start within the
  next few months, in addition to over 900
  completed. Why? Because the ACCC Conductor
  offers the ability to improve the efficiency,
  capacity, reliability and resilience of the
  electric power grid, worldwide, while saving
  time, money and the environment.

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A few reasons why consumers, utilities our
states would benefit from TD Efficiency
standards.

• When we think about sustainability, we should
  consider it holistically to meet clean energy
  standards and avoid the costly realities of
  efficiencies ignored.

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Sustainability Goals

• In response to the environmental, social and
  political challenges of climate change, many
  Utilities in the United States have created
  Sustainability Programs. Individual States have
  also set sustainability goals, to which Utilities
  are responding.
• In addition to securing new cleaner sources of
  generation to reduce GHG emissions and building
  or upgrading transmission assets to access these,
  many sustainability programs include advanced
  metering, demand side appliance controls,
  consumer off-peak pricing incentives,
  efficiency standards and much more.

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Efficiency Matters

• You may recall that our industry spent billions
  of dollars improving the efficiency of generation
  assets to reduce operating costs. As development
  of new generation assets became increasingly
  difficult to permit, many utilities offered
  incentives for their customers to conserve energy
  and use more efficient appliances and more
  efficient building materials, for example.
• It became abundantly clear that improving the
  efficiency of any device is a good idea. After
  all, its cheaper to save a Negawatt than it
  is to produce a Megawatt.

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Realities

• While improving the efficiency of generation
  assets and demand side appliances has paid
  dividends, improving the efficiency of our
  electric power grid seems to be a highly
  overlooked opportunity.
• Just two years ago, in 2019, researchers at the
  Center for Global Sustainability, School of
  Public Policy, University of Maryland and the
  School for Advanced International Studies, John
  Hopkins University determined that nearly one
  billion metric tons of CO2 equivalents can be
  attributed to inefficiencies in the worlds
  electric power grid. 
• In the United States it is estimated that
  approximately 6 of all electricity generated is
  lost to the inefficiencies in our transmission
  and distribution grid.

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Transmission Efficiency Standards in Developing
Countries

• In many developing countries, TD Efficiency
  Standards have been established and are mandated
  by governments, utilities, and financial
  institutions.
• While multilateral banks typically invest in
  electric infrastructure projects to support
  economic development, they are supporting
  efficiency standards for overhead power line
  conductors that are also helping them meet their
  sustainability goals. 
• Conductors such as the ACCC Conductor, for
  instance,  can not only carry more current than
  conventional steel reinforced conductors, but
  they also reduce line losses and associated
  emissions.

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