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A Next-Generation Transmission Line Technology Grows in China
A Next-Generation Transmission Line Technology Grows in China
CTC Global, NARI to make U.S. high-tech conductor composites for China’s massive market
JEFF ST. JOHN: AUGUST 14, 2013
Creating a high-tech power grid isn’t just about information and communications technology, data-crunching software and other such digital technologies. Sometimes the innovations can be hidden inside the power lines themselves.
CTC Global is hoping that its new partnership with one of China’s biggest grid players will help push its own transmission technology into what’s set to become the world’s biggest power grid market.
On Wednesday, the Irvine, Calif.-based maker of aluminum-conductor composite core (ACCC) transmission cable (officially known as “conductor” in utility parlance), announced that it’s formed a joint venture with the NARI Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC).
CTC already has a sizable amount of its ACCC conductor in use in grid projects in China, but this is the first time CTC has partnered with another company to build the composite carbon-and-glass material that forms the heart of transmission lines that are lighter, more heat-resistant, and less susceptible to line loss than the steel-core cables that are the industry standard today.
To be sure, ACCC comes at a price premium, with a cost roughly ...
CTC Global, NARI to make U.S. high-tech conductor composites for China’s massive market
JEFF ST. JOHN: AUGUST 14, 2013
Creating a high-tech power grid isn’t just about information and communications technology, data-crunching software and other such digital technologies. Sometimes the innovations can be hidden inside the power lines themselves.
CTC Global is hoping that its new partnership with one of China’s biggest grid players will help push its own transmission technology into what’s set to become the world’s biggest power grid market.
On Wednesday, the Irvine, Calif.-based maker of aluminum-conductor composite core (ACCC) transmission cable (officially known as “conductor” in utility parlance), announced that it’s formed a joint venture with the NARI Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC).
CTC already has a sizable amount of its ACCC conductor in use in grid projects in China, but this is the first time CTC has partnered with another company to build the composite carbon-and-glass material that forms the heart of transmission lines that are lighter, more heat-resistant, and less susceptible to line loss than the steel-core cables that are the industry standard today.
To be sure, ACCC comes at a price premium, with a cost roughly ...
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