T&D Report Ed 6 2006 and Database Package

This report has been much expanded, with new categories of information and more extensive detail. The report is a substantial document of 475 pages containing overall analysis of the transmission and distribution systems, chapters dealing with each of 183 individual countries and the detailed statistical tables of line lengths and system capacity. Capital expenditure and market sizes for 8 categories of T&D equipment and business service are sized and forecast. In total the report contains 114 network maps. A major new feature of the T&D Report Edition 6 in 2006 is a series of detailed tables detailing the international interconnections which are enhancing access to generating capacity for many countries and optimising use of surplus capacity. The report outlines the Power Pools now emerging around the world. This new emphasis, assembling the network maps, information about the Power Pools and details of interconnections, enables a more comprehensive understanding of the process of interlinking national power systems globally. This report contains a detailed analysis of global transmission and distribution networks which total 5.3 million km in transmission lines and 59 million km of distribution lines. The global transmission market is expanding not only internally but via linking the generating capacity of different countries. The report examines this country by country and projects growth annually until 2011.A voltage analysis is provided where possible. The report also looks at markets for transmission and distribution equipment examining total capital expenditure and sizes individual markets for 8 categories of equipment and business service. The markets are defined in 2 categories; a broader market of $135 billion encompassing all equipment, and secondly a smaller market for high tech products and added-value services with through-life contracts. The smaller, more concentrated market is estimated at $54 billion in 2006.The report contains a detailed section for each country examining the T&D industry, its structure, its size and the entities involved in it. The report has identified a number of important factors which we believe to be shaping the direction of transmission and distribution globally and will have significant affects on the market in coming years. Large amounts of the transmission and distribution infrastructure are now reaching their design lives of around 40 years of age and in mature countries the emphasis is shifting from new installations to maintaining and replacing the existing aging assists. As the cost of replacement spirals, there is a new emphasis on refurbishment and retrofit instead of replacement. This is encouraged by the development of sophisticated asset management techniques which enable the monitoring of systems, so that equipment can be replaced when it needs to be replaced or refurbished rather than at the end of its originally designated design life, which it may well exceed. There is increasing concern that while managing the assets is an efficient and cost-effective way of extracting maximum value from the assets, much of the infrastructure may be reaching a "point of no return" where replacement is inevitable. Investment in the maintenance of transmission assets has been under-funded in recent years and it is now recognised as an urgent priority to increase it. Another feature of the market is the increasing share of lifelong service contracts as opposed to one off sales of products, to maximise revenue and profit per customer. In common with other areas of industry the T&D industry is concentrating on signing customers up for repeat contracts by servicing their equipment throughout their life. The cost of gaining customers is now so high that it is crucial to extract the maximum value from contracts gained rather than the simple one-off sale. The internationalisation which started in Europe and the Nordic regions is now being replicated in other regions of the world. Perhaps the most notable example of this is the Med Ring which has created a circle around the Mediterranean, linking the Middle Eastern countries with North Africa, from Morocco to Spain to the western European networks and on the eastern side through Sudel to south eastern Europe. This will eventually be linked across the Sahara to the various new Power Pools in Central, East and West Africa, right down to South Africa. Each of the major countries is described with a table summarising the major characteristics of the electrical supply industry. The Excel database contains two sets of data in a total of 21 spreadsheets.11 spreadsheets contain analysis with historical data from 1970 and forecasts annually to 2011 of the transmission and distribution line lengths and capacity. 10 spreadsheets contain market sizes and annual forecasts to 2011 for total capital expenditure, the total equipment market and 8 equipment categories. This report and database will help you to obtain a detailed view within the overall global picture of the world's transmission and distribution infrastructure and its associated markets, to pinpoint the sectors and sizes of your market opportunities and to identify the critical trends in the changing T&D infrastructure and market development.