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Annual 2007 (final) and annual 2008 (preliminary)

Construction costs for distribution systems increased by 0.9% during 2008. The increase in the materials component (+1.5%) in 2008 was the major contributor to this rise in the index. The 2007 data for distribution systems represented an advance of 4.5% over 2006.

The annual 2008 construction costs for the transmission line system series rose 3.7% compared with a 4.7% increase for 2007. The transmission line component in 2008 climbed 2.2%, while in 2007 there was a 3.9% annual gain. The substation component rose by 4.6% in 2008, following a 5.2% increase in 2007, with the station equipment sub-component (+3.7%) posting the largest gain.