Transmission & Distribution World Magazine

1 week 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 week 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–‘.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks ago | tdworld.com | Nikki Chandler

ID 31737422 © Iakov Filimonov | Dreamstime.comIberian Peninsula Power Restored After BlackoutPower has been restored to Spain and Portugal after a blackout hit the Iberian Peninsula. The event caused halting of trains and traffic snarls. The exact cause is still unknown. Power has been mainly restored to Spain and Portugal after a blackout hit the Iberian Peninsula yesterday.

2 weeks ago | tdworld.com | Jeff Postelwait

The U.S. Department of Energy is building a list of hundreds of grants and projects that it says no longer match department priorities and need to be cut, but one think tank whose grants were targeted says its work will continue. Boulder, Colorado based Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is a nonprofit that conducts research into clean energy and works with businesses, legislators, communities and NGOs on greenhouse gas reduction measures.