Infrastructure's dizzying array

     At the 7th Annual Land Policy Conference: Infrastructure and Land Policies, Janice Beecher, a political scientist at the Institute of Public Utilities at Michigan State University and a self-described "regulation nerd," provided this collected picture of the physical imprint of utility infrastructure in the U.S.:

-- 66 nuclear, 580 coal, 1,169 petroleum, and 1,705 natural/gas plants
-- 1,432 hydroelectric plants
-- 1,356 renewable energy facilities
-- 395,000 miles of high voltage lines
-- 15,700 transmissions substations
-- 6 million miles of electricity distribution lines
-- 20,000 miles of gas-gathering pipelines
-- 306,000 miles of transmissions pipelines
-- 1,400 gas compressor stations
-- 400 underground natural gas storage facilities
-- 2 million miles of gas distribution mains
-- 75,000 water treatment facilities
-- 2 million miles of water distribution mains (half just 6 to 20” in diameter)
-- 14,500 wastewater treatment facilities
-- 600,000 of wastewater collection lines
-- 18.7 million telephone poles
-- 1.7 billion miles of metallic wire
-- 38 million miles of fiber wire

     The portrait was drawn from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the North American Electric Reliability Corp., the Federal Communications Commission, industry trade associations and other sources.
     The presentation was part of the session on taxation and regulation of infrastructure, as the participants considered increasing privitization of infrastructure including transport infrastructure. Former Massachusetts transportation secretary and chief architect of the Big Dig Fred Salvucci kicked off the conference last night, followed by keynote speaker Kathy Sierra this morning, on green infrastructure.

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