Jun 29, 2020
Background: Transmission and distribution (T&D) efficiency improvement is the overlooked area for actively “harvesting” energy savings and associated environmental benefits. New renewable energy plants deliver electricity to new, high efficiency end-use technologies over lower efficiency, century-old design conductors. Utilities have almost no policy guidance to explicitly consider economical efficiency improvements when making grid investment decisions. […]
Any American state implementing an effective T&D Energy Efficiency Policy Initiative could expect to save from 100,000 to 6.6 million MWh per year depending on geographic size & electric load of the state.