The demand for cleaner electric energy grows each year with electrification of transportation, space conditioning, vertical agriculture, industrial processes and hyperscalers. Some say that America will double or triple its current peak demand requirements by 2050.
In addition, the need to replace aging assets, the integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER’s) and the demand for resilience against high impact storms and wildfires will have a compounded impact on the current planning, design, operations and maintenance of the electric transmission and distribution (T&D) grid that delivers energy to load.
This growth will require a huge, prudent investment in safe, reliable and resilient T&D lines that deliver measurable value over the life of the asset. Much of that investment will include sustainable underground cables like those produced by Southwire.
Southwire is one of the largest producers of transmission and distribution cables in the country and the world. Always striving to maintain quality and value by listening to their customers, Southwire has implemented an impressive cradle to grave sustainability program for underground cables. Sustainability is broadly defined to include the entire life cycle of the cable product from the “raw material” cradle to recycle or up cycle at the grave. Customers get the the day to day value and resilient performance of outstanding cable and the knowledge that it is sustainably produced.
In addition, Yuhsin Hawig, Ph.D. and Southwire VP has an engineering whitepaper which details the Top 12 attributes to design a reinforced, resilient, and reliable medium voltage primary cable. See it here.
Then….this August 19th join me and Southwire during an Energy Central PowerSession when we discuss how underground cable can be a fundamental part of a resilient T&D system.
Learn about how Southwire’s planning and testing practices contribute to sustainability and system resilience by prioritizing the best locations for new conductor, cables and equipment based on actual field data.
“If you’re not testing, you’re guessing” is a favorite Southwire quote. Join us to learn more.