Role of ACCC® Conductors in Meeting U.S. Decarbonization Goals

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Role of ACCC Conductors in Meeting U.S.
Decarbonization Goalswww.ctcglobal.com

Nov 2021
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ACCC News

• CTC Global is the privately held power grid
  solutions company whose flagship product, ACCC
  Conductor is the leading high performance, high
  voltage power line solution used by utility
  companies around the world to expand access to
  and to debottleneck their grids.
• ACCC Conductors have been selected for over
  1,000 projects by more than 250 utilities in 60
  countries and are credited with eliminating and
  avoiding over 15 million metric tons of line-loss
  related CO2 emissions.

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100 carbon-free electricity sector in the U.S.
by 2035

• One of the Biden Administrations primary goals
  is to achieve a 100 carbon-free electricity
  sector in the U.S. by 2035. While demand for
  electricity is anticipated to grow by as much as
  40 by mid-century to support electric
  conversion in the automotive, industrial and
  other sectors, the need to build a more robust
  and efficient electric power grid has never been
  more urgent.

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The current situation in U.S. 

• Currently, approximately 65 of all electricity
  generated in the U.S. relies on fossil fuels
  responsible for over 1.7 billion metric tons of
  CO2 emissions in 2019. To reduce this number to
  ZERO by 2035, approximately 53 GW of new
  carbon-free generation will need to be added to
  the grid every year for the next 14 years (not
  including additional generation resources needed
  to meet growing electrical demand in other
  sectors, including transportation).
• Siting new transmission lines is nearly
  impossible and, if it can be done, the process
  can take a decade or more, which is not timely
  support for meeting the 2035 goal of ZERO-carbon
  emission in the electric sector. 

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The Role of high-capacity, energy efficient ACCC
Conductor 

• Fortunately, the high-capacity, energy efficient
  ACCC Conductor can greatly assist in the rapid
  integration of large amounts of new clean
  generation resources onto the existing grid.
  There are many opportunities within the existing
  grid where replacing legacy steel-reinforced
  overhead conductors with ACCC Conductors
  (reconductoring) can substantially increase (up
  to double) the capacity of existing transmission
  lines without the need to reinforce or replace
  existing structures. Reconductoring at choke
  points or constrained areas in the grid can
  rapidly enable more carbon-free generation to be
  interconnected to the grid in half the time and
  at a fraction of the cost of the conventional
  method of upgrading a power line.

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Lets find more opportunities to reconductor!

• In the past, increasing the capacity of an
  existing transmission corridor required shutting
  the line down, removing the existing wire and
  structures (often with undesirable environmental
  consequences), replacing the structures with
  larger / taller structures with new foundations,
  and pulling in new larger, higher capacity
  conductors (called rebuilding). This was a very
  expensive, arduous, and disruptive process that
  is no longer necessary for many situations.
  Reconductoring a power line using the existing
  structures is the fastest, lowest cost way to add
  substantial capacity to the existing
  grid. Reconductoring can help rapidly
  interconnect needed carbon-free generating
  capacity onto the grid so that the ambitious
  decarbonization goal of reaching ZERO carbon
  emission from the electric sector by 2035 has a
  chance to be met.

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