Christina IOSIFIDOU Pushing sustainability for transformers TRANSFORMERS MAGAZINE | Volume 11, Issue 4 | 2024

How do you evaluate how green the energy infrastructure we need to build is? Industry collaboration: To get ahead on the path to net zero, it’s not just electricity generation we need to decarbonize; energy infrastructure itself needs to become greener. That’s particularly true for transformers. Yet, to this day, there is no established standard to evaluate their sustainability. Not for much longer. Working groups at DNV and CIGRE are developing a framework to define a robust sustainability standard and, with it, best practices to reduce transformers’ environmental impacts. oday, when we look...

Emission credits should be created annually, and EPDs for a grey product line should not include emissions reductions sold through a green product line Lead, Energy Systems at DNV. “We couldn’t just hang around and wait for progress.” The report provides a basis for more effective communication and consultation with and between power transformer stakeholders on sustainability parameters, terminology, data quality, and life cycle assessment. Influential aspects (e.g., recyclability, load factors, carbon intensity of the network, etc.) are also included. For example, it provides procedures for...