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

1. Role of ACCC® Conductors in Meeting U.S. Decarbonization Goalswww.ctcglobal.com Nov 2021

2. 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. www.ctcglobal.com

3. 100% carbon-free electricity sector in the U.S. by 2035 www.ctcglobal.com One of the Biden Administration’s 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.

4. 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.  www.ctcglobal.com

5. 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. www.ctcglobal.com

6. Let’s find more opportunities to reconductor! www.ctcglobal.com 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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