Transmission & Distribution World Magazine

2 weeks ago | tdworld.com | Jeff Postelwait

The word on many people’s minds in the business press for at least the past year has been “reshoring.”Through some policy or another, presidents have promised to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. since deindustrialization hit in the 1970s and 1980s, when free-trade agreements resulted in labor intensive industries moving their manufacturing bases to developing countries. They make these promises because it sounds good. Americans like to feel that this is a country that makes stuff.

3 weeks ago | tdworld.com | Rod Walton

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed by a party-line Democratic vote and signed into law by President Biden three years ago, has been a major catalyst for the electric power sector—unlocking hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy, grid modernization, and distributed energy investments.

1 month ago | tdworld.com | Jeff Postelwait

The electricity industry is buzzing about increasing load growth. People and businesses need more power for electric vehicles, new housing, artificial intelligence and other new and growing applications. I spoke with Andreas Schierenbeck, CEO of Hitachi Energy as well as a Senior Vice President and Executive Officer at Hitachi, Ltd., about these drivers as well as the current political landscape of economic downturns, tariffs and, in some places, politicians who are skeptical of clean energy.

1 month ago | tdworld.com | Nikki Chandler

ID 17392432 © Knktucker | Dreamstime.comEnergy’s GPA: Grid Problems Ahead? Despite over a decade of warnings and mounting investments, America’s energy infrastructure just got downgraded to a D+, revealing a critical disconnect between policy ambition and real-world progress in modernizing the grid. When the American Society of Civil Engineers released its Infrastructure Report Card in 2021, the energy sector was rated at a ‘C–‘.

1 month ago | tdworld.com | Drew Robb

Australia is a vast landmass. It is about 2500 miles (4023 km) between Perth on the West Coast to Brisbane in the East. Population centers are so far apart that grid infrastructure is largely localized. Even within states like Queensland, the transmission network weakens when moving away from the Brisbane metro area in the south. Towns to the north, like Cairns and Townsville, are around 1000 miles (1609 km) away.