Learn how power companies reap the benefits of CTC Global ACCC conductor

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www.ctcglobal.com/ Headquarters: Irvine, Calif./ Employees: 250/ Specialty: Powerline con­
ductors/ Anne McDowell, VP of commercial operations: "Market need drove us to innovate."

POWERING THE WORLD

CTC GLOBAL GROWS AS ELECTRIC POWER COMPANIES REAP THE
BENEFITS OF ITS Acee® CONDUCTOR. BY JANICE HOPPE-SPIERS

CTC Global has been improving ing thermal sag and improving con­ num without a weight or diameter
the efficiency, capacity, reliability ductor efficiency." penalty, and be utilized to reduce
and resilience of the world's electric thermal sag, increase spans between
power grid since 2005 with the intro­ Based in Irvine, Calif., CTC Global fewer structures, carry more cur­
duction of ACCC® conductor. "CTC is a privately held Delaware Corpo­ rent, reduce line losses and improve
Global essentially created an entirely ration that began research and de­ grid reliability.
new market by creating something velopment in early 2003 to develop
that previously didn't exist," Vice a conductor that could be used to CTC Global commercialized
President of Commercial Opera­ upgrade existing transmission cor­ its initial product line in 2005 and
tions Anne McDowell says. "Market ridors without structural modifi­ the company went on to develop
need drove us to innovate. We be­ cations. The objective relied on the ISO-certified manufacturing tech­
gan developing the patented ACCC incorporation of highly evolved aero­ niques and tooling in 2006 to allow
conductor when we recognized the space technology and materials sci­ for the cost-effective and continuous
enormous challenge of increasing ence to create a new higher strength, production of the pultruded com­
transmission line capacity, mitigat- lighter weight core that could incor­ posite core. To date, the company
porate additional conductive alumi-
has supplied more than 200 elec- »

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