New Product Overview

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• New Product Overview
• Homac STORM SAFE
• Connector Systems
• Presented by
• Roy Jazowski - Director of RD
• Mark Hammer Director of Marketing Sales

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• New Homac STORM SAFE Device

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Project Overview

• In 2005, Homac and the Electric Power Research
• Institute EPRI, entered into an agreement to
• jointly develop a family of connector devices
  which
• would break during hurricane/storm conditions
• when service entrance power lines are hit with
• trees, branches or flying debris

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Project Overview

• The goal of the project was to design a family of
  products which would
• Mitigate damage to power line structures and
  systems
• Restore power quickly
• Eliminate damage to customers service entrance
  equipment

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Additional Project Goals

• Improve SAIFI (System Average Interruption
  Frequency Index) and SAIDI (System Average
  Interruption Duration
• Index) for utilities
• using Storm Safe
• products during
• severe weather
• conditions

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Additional Project Goals

• Improve safety to the public and repair crews by
  insuring that the lines are de-energized when
  they fall to the ground
• Improve utility reliability by restoring power
  quickly, with no costly repair charges to both
  the utility and the customer

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The Challenge

• Find a way to mitigate damage to service wires,
  customer equipment secondary performance

• Improve site safety during storm damage
  conditions

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Product Overview
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• Benefits

• SAIDI improved faster restoration time
• SAIFI improved secondary stays in as service
  clears without tripping primary mitigating
  additional downstream outages
• OM Costs no damage to terminal pole and
  minimal exposure to service damage, faster
  restoration time
• Customer satisfaction avoids need for entrance
  repairs (800 2,500), restoration faster, less
  transient exposure
• Safety
• Homeowner mitigates transients
• Public wires are deenergized on the ground
• Crews wires are dead and clear

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Field Experience
STORM SAFE w/ 3 Services
Three months after proto installation, tree took
one service down Second and third service drops
remained intact Service mast survived
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Field Test _at_ KCPL

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Project Results

• STORM SAFE can be applied in any overhead service
  drop application. It is adaptable to any
  location
• Mechanical Breakaway sized to utility
  specification
• Multiple drops served off 1 STORM SAFE (1-3 on
  one pole)
• Single drop for low density or wide spread, such
  as opposite sides of the pole
• New construction or retrofit pre or post storm
• Restore service with a new fuse link plug and
  energize
• Unique Homac, Patented Solution
• Available 3rd Quarter 2006

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About Homac

• Founded in 1963

• Private Company 2nd Generation Family Owned

• Florida Based Manufacturer Serving the Electric
  Utility

• Leading Producer of Electrical Connectors and
  Cable Acc.

• 425 Employees

• 3 Manufacturing Locations
• ? Ormond Beach, FL Corporate Headquarters,
  Manufacturing
• and Distribution Facilities
  140,000 sq. ft.
• ? Ormond Beach, FL Automated CNC and
  Plating Facilities 44,000 sq. ft.
• ? Corcoran, CA Manufacturing and Dist
  Facilities 38,000 sq. ft.

• Manufacturer of the Year Volusia County, FL

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Ormond Beach, FL Headquarters
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Ormond Beach, FL Headquarters
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Serving the Power Distribution Sector of the
Electric Utility Industry

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Our Customers

• Investor Owned Utilities
• Rural Electric Cooperatives
• Municipal Electric Utilities

Serving Customers Across the United States and
in over 40 Countries World-Wide
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Our History

• In the early 1960s, electric utility companies
  began to transition from overhead distribution
  lines to underground installations
• In 1964, Homacs founder invented and patented
  the 1st connector designed specifically for
  underground residential distribution (URD) the
  Homac Hub connector

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• Homac pioneered the use of EPDM rubber for
  insulating and
• waterproofing underground cable connectors
• Homacs Flood-Seal technology provided a
  unique, cost- effective solution to the industry
  and a preferred alternative to epoxy, tape and
  heat-shrink for underground cable joints

Our History
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Our History

• Designing underground connectors with
• interference-fit rubbers stretch and memory
• characteristics provides superior tension on
• the cable-connector interface resulting in
• indefinite waterproof integrity

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Our History

• Today, Homac has grown to become the leader in
  the design and manufacture of electric power
  delivery connector solutions
• Homac is the industrys largest manufacturer of
  secondary underground distribution connectors
• And a recognized leader in overhead
  distribution and substation connectors

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Complete Line of Quality ElectricalConnectors
Accessories_______________ Aluminum
Copper Compression Mechanical Overhead
Underground Flood-Seal Insulating
Products
Homac Products
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SubstationConnectors _______________
Aluminum Bronze Bolted Welded EHV
Homac Products
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Underground Distribution Systems
Facts

• Improving Electric System Reliability is Driving
  U/G Growth

• U/G Electric Systems Mitigate Outages Due to
  Severe Weather

• Improving the Aesthetics of the Electric System
  is Driving U/G Growth

• Security Concerns May Help Drive Additional U/G
  Growth

• U/G Cable Placement Growing 8 Times the Rate of
  O/H

• Today, Less Than 15 of Distribution Cable is
  Currently U/G

• Homac Supports National, State Customer
  Initiatives That Focus On
• Improving the Electric Power Delivery
  Infrastructure, Electric System
• Reliability Electric System Safety!

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Thank You