Quanta Technology
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2021)
Reporting Period: 2021
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Decarbonization
- Resilience
- Reliability
- Safety
- Affordability
- Sustainability
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Need to interconnect large amounts of MWs
- Distribution hosting capacity and transmission deliverability
- Interconnection limits and standards
- Flexibility to counter increased uncertainty
- Non-wires alternatives (NWA) planning criteria, tools, and expertise
- DER visibility and controllability
- Aging infrastructure
- Resilience goals
- Utility investment incentives
- IT security and cyber intrusion
- Franchise model and merchant model
Mitigation Strategies
- Granular time-series analysis
- Financial analysis
- Granular spatiotemporal forecasting (load and DER)
- Utility incentives and rate-making
- Asset condition assessments
- Risk analysis
- DERMS/ADMS/AMI/Volt-VAR/DA infrastructure
- Probabilistic planning
- Scalable communication
- Participatory and transparent planning process
- Protection system for grids with high IBR penetration
- Vulnerability analysis
Supply Chain Management
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Physical Risks
- 1 in 100-year Events Every year Events
Transition Risks
- Utility investment incentives