Demography of Distribution Assets

Aging assets is commonly identified as a major concern for utilities in the distribution arena. Prior to devising strategies to mitigate the effects of ageing assets it is important to understand the magnitude of the problem in terms of both the age of the asset and the number of assets involved.

As part of ongoing research utilities are invited to provide information for their assets which are collated to provide an industry overview. Such an overview may be used to provide a context for utility specific analyses.

The table below provides the age ranges for the assets currently in use within the Distribution System

Data gathering and analysis for this research is ongoing. As new results become available they will be used to update this page.