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U.S. Electric Power T&D Market Overview Briefs Now Available

Newton-Evans is updating its series of “top line” market overview briefs called “Overview of the 2017-2020 U.S. Transmission and Distribution Equipment Market.” The reports included in this series are grouped into seven categories based on the types of T&D Equipment, systems or services covered: Control Systems, Substation Automation, Protective Relays, Transformers, Medium Voltage Equipment, High Voltage Equipment, and Distribution Automation. Reports in some of these product categories have been published this week and are now available for ordering on our reports page.

Each of these market overviews includes:
1) listing of market participants and their estimated 2017 U.S. sales
2) estimated U.S. industry segment revenues for 2017
3) outlook through 2020
4) 2017 market shares of segment participants

Substation Automation (the SA series)
13 report topics: Remote Terminal Units, Programmable Logic controllers, Substation Automation Platforms, Multifunction Meters and Recorders, Inter-Utility Revenue Meters, Digital Relays, Digital Fault Recorders, Sequence of Events Recorders, Power Quality Recorders, Substation Reclosers, Substation Automation Integration Specialists, Substation Communications, Substation Voltage Regulators

The U.S. market for Substation automation and integration services in these 13 areas almost reached $2 billion in 2017. Major market participants include ABB, Ametek, Eaton-Cooper, GE Grid Solutions, SEL, Schneider Electric, Siemens and many others.

Control Systems (the CS series)
covers 11 report topics: EMS Systems Integration, Distribution SCADA, Geographic Information Systems, Customer Information Systems, Outage Management Systems, Meter Data Management Systems, Mobile Workforce Management Systems, Advanced Distribution Automation, Electric Power Market Management System, Cyber Security Software for Control Systems, Generation Management Systems

The U.S. market for control systems products and services in these 11 segments represented almost $1.8 billion in 2017, with an estimated $5.4 to $6.5 billion over 2018-2020.

Protection and Control (the PR series)
covers 8 topics: Feeder Relays, Line Differential Relays, Generator Relays, Motor Control Relays, Electro-Mechanical Relays, Drop-In Control Houses, Synchrophasors (PDUs/PDCs), Teleprotection

Newton-Evans estimates the U.S. market for these 8 areas exceeded $600 million in 2017, including a strong industrial market for motor control relays.