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Novi - ITC Holdings takes big bite out of emissions

metromode, 4/30/2009

Lots of companies like to announce sustainability-based programs, emphasizing their grand ambitions. The follow-up announcements aren't as common. This story is about the latter kind of announcement.

Novi-based ITC Holdings has dramatically reduced its emissions of sulfur hexafluoride (a greenhouse gas) three years after starting a program to contain the problem. The gas was escaping from old transmission equipment at an average of 13,275 pounds per year in 2005. That number stands at 1,836 pounds as of 2008.

ITC Holdings, which runs electrical grids, has been chasing similar efficiencies in its infrastructure for years. It is investing about $10 billion in upgrading the electric grid in the Midwest, a move that will make the grid more efficient and sustainable.

The firm is also expanding the grid to wind farms in places like the Upper Peninsula so that they can provide renewable energy to places like Minneapolis or Detroit. The Green Power Express project will eventually transport 12,000 megawatts of renewable energy to city centers.

Source: ITC Holdings
Writer: Jon Zemke

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