The Existing Grid May Be America’s Most Valuable Energy Resource
America's electric grid is entering a period of unprecedented demand growth driven by artificial intelligence, data centers, advanced manufacturing, electrification, and economic expansion. While new transmission development remains essential, many utilities are discovering that one of the largest untapped energy resources may already exist within the infrastructure they own today. The challenge facing the industry is not simply determining what needs to be built, but how quickly additional capacity can be delivered to support growing demand while maintaining reliability, affordability, and resilience.
As a result, increasing attention is being focused on technologies and strategies that unlock more value from existing transmission assets. Advanced reconductoring, grid-enhancing technologies, real-time monitoring systems, and other modernization tools are helping utilities increase transfer capability, reduce congestion, improve efficiency, and accelerate project timelines without waiting years for new transmission corridors to be developed. The future grid will require both new infrastructure and better utilization of existing infrastructure. Utilities that successfully combine these approaches will be best positioned to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving energy landscape.
| | | | Strengthening the Grid Backbone: Why Advanced Conductors Are Essential to Economic Growth and National Security | As electricity demand accelerates from AI, data centers, manufacturing, and electrification, the electric grid is increasingly being recognized as critical economic and national security infrastructure. In a recent report prepared by Concentric Energy Advisors for the Edison Electric Institute, the authors highlight the importance of strengthening and modernizing the grid to support future growth. In our latest blog post, CTC Global explores the report’s key findings and discusses how ACCC® Conductor, ACCC InfoCore® System, and the GridVista™ System can help utilities increase capacity, improve efficiency, and enhance resilience by making better use of existing transmission infrastructure. | | | | The Real Measure of Reconductoring: Headroom, Efficiency, and Deliverable Power | As utilities face rising demand from electrification, data centers, renewable integration, and economic growth, reconductoring decisions are becoming more important than ever. In our latest blog post, CTC Global explores why conductor selection should be based on more than high-temperature ratings alone. The article examines the critical differences between theoretical ampacity and deliverable power, and explains how ACCC® Conductor helps utilities create lasting capacity headroom, reduce losses, improve efficiency, and maximize the long-term value of existing transmission corridors. Read the full blog to learn why the future of reconductoring is about far more than simply running conductors hotter. | | | | CTC Global Received 2026 Global Business of the Year Award from Irvine Chamber of Commerce | |
CTC Global is honored to have been named the 2026 Global Business of the Year by the Greater Irvine Chamber of Commerce. The award recognizes more than two decades of innovation and dedication to helping electric utilities address some of the industry's most pressing challenges, including grid capacity constraints, reliability, efficiency, resilience, and the growing demand for electricity. Today, CTC Global’s ACCC® Conductor has been deployed on more than 1,600 projects across more than 70 countries, helping utilities deliver more power through existing transmission corridors while reducing losses and improving overall system performance.
The recognition also comes during a year of continued innovation for the company, highlighted by the introduction of the GridVista™ System, which provides utilities with real-time visibility into transmission line conditions to help optimize operations and improve asset management. CTC Global is proud to be part of Irvine’s dynamic business community and grateful to its employees, customers, manufacturing partners, and industry collaborators whose support and commitment have helped make this achievement possible.
| | | | CTC Global Welcomes Jonathon Stevens as Chief Financial Officer | CTC Global is pleased to announce the appointment of Jonathon Stevens as Chief Financial Officer. In this role, Stevens will lead the company’s financial strategy and help support the continued global expansion of CTC Global’s advanced transmission solutions. He brings extensive experience in financial and operational leadership, most recently serving as Vice President of Finance at TransDigm Group, with previous leadership positions at Sika Corporation, Royal Plywood Company, and Kingspan PLC. “We are excited to welcome Jonathon to CTC Global at an exciting moment in our company’s growth,” said CEO J.D. Sitton. Stevens joins the company as utilities worldwide seek faster, more cost-effective solutions to expand grid capacity and reliability, and he will play a key role in supporting CTC Global’s long-term growth, innovation, and commitment to serving customers around the world. | | | | |
7 ACCC® Projects Recently Energized
75 ACCC® Projects Under Construction
44 ACCC® Projects Scheduled to Start
| | Iraq Energizes First 400 kV ACCC® Conductor Reconductoring Project on 136 km Transmission Line | | |
Iraq recently energized its first 400 kV ACCC® Conductor reconductoring project, marking a significant milestone in the country’s ongoing grid modernization efforts. The 136-kilometer Rumaila IPP–South Nasiriyah transmission line was upgraded using ACCC® Galveston Conductor, more than doubling the line’s power transfer capability while reducing transmission losses and lowering mechanical loading on existing towers and infrastructure. Completed under the leadership of Iraq’s General Company for Electric Power Transmission in the Southern Region, the project demonstrates how advanced reconductoring can unlock substantial new capacity within existing transmission corridors.
The project is expected to improve power delivery across southern Iraq, strengthen grid reliability, and support future load growth without the need for new transmission rights-of-way. By combining higher capacity, lower losses, reduced sag, and improved structural performance, the upgrade highlights the value of Advanced Conductor technology as a fast and practical solution to transmission constraints. As Iraq’s first and longest 400 kV ACCC® Conductor installation, the project establishes a new benchmark for transmission modernization and reinforces the growing role of advanced reconductoring in meeting global grid expansion challenges.
| | | | World’s First ACCC® Conductor Installation Using Wedge Clamps Completed in Germany | |
Amprion has successfully completed the world’s first routine installation of ACCC® Conductor using wedge-clamp dead-end fittings as part of its Bauler grid reinforcement project in Germany’s Südeifel region. The project supports a key European interconnection initiative and marks an important milestone in Advanced Conductor deployment.
Developed through a collaboration between CTC Global, RIBE, and Lamifil, the ACCC® Conductor-compatible wedge-clamp solution enables faster, easier installation with less equipment required at height while providing excellent electrical performance. Following extensive testing, Amprion adopted the technology for this and future ACCC® Conductor Projects, with additional utilities across Central Europe now specifying wedge clamps for Advanced Conductor installations. The successful deployment represents another step forward in accelerating grid modernization, increasing capacity on existing infrastructure, and helping utilities meet growing energy demands more efficiently.
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WIRES Summer Member Meeting
July 8-9 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
| CTC Global is pleased to participate in the upcoming WIRES Summer Member Meeting, taking place July 8–9, 2026, at the Notary Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The meeting will bring together transmission industry leaders, utility executives, regulators, policymakers, and technology providers to discuss the evolving challenges and opportunities facing the North American electric grid. We look forward to engaging in important discussions on transmission expansion, grid modernization, advanced transmission technologies, and policies that can help accelerate the delivery of reliable, affordable, and resilient electricity. | | | |
NARUC Summer Policy Summit
July 19-22 | Minneapolis, Minnesota
| CTC Global is pleased to participate in the 2026 NARUC Summer Policy Summit, taking place July 19–22 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The annual summit brings together state utility commissioners, regulators, policymakers, utilities, technology providers, and industry leaders to discuss critical issues shaping the future of energy, telecommunications, water, and utility regulation. We look forward to engaging in conversations focused on grid modernization, transmission expansion, reliability, affordability, infrastructure investment, and emerging technologies that can help meet growing electricity demand across North America. | | | |
CIGRE Paris Session 2026
August 23-28 | Paris, France
| CTC Global will be participating in the CIGRE Paris Session 2026, taking place August 23–28 in Paris, France. Recognized as the world's premier technical conference for high-voltage power systems, CIGRE brings together utility engineers, transmission operators, researchers, manufacturers, and technology innovators from around the globe to exchange knowledge and discuss solutions to the challenges facing modern electric grids. CTC Global will be exhibiting at Booth A181 and contributing several technical presentations, including "Direct Measurement of Conductor State: Continuous Visibility into How the Conductor Actually Behaves," as well as a poster presentation "Evaluation, Analysis, and Recommendation of Acceptance Criteria to Determine Ageing on Composite Core Conductors Utilizing the Arrhenius Method." We look forward to engaging with customers, partners, utilities, and industry experts from around the world while sharing insights on Advanced Conductors, composite core technologies, grid monitoring solutions, and the future of transmission infrastructure. | | | | Grid Strategies, the Electricity Customer Alliance, & Americans for a Clean Energy Grid Release New Report | As electricity demand accelerates from data centers, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, and electrification, policymakers and regulators are increasingly focused on a critical question: how can the grid expand quickly enough to serve new load without unfairly shifting costs to existing customers? A new report from Grid Strategies, Federal Transmission Pricing Volume 2, examines the policy, regulatory, and cost-allocation challenges associated with this emerging reality while offering practical frameworks for balancing affordability, reliability, and growth. The discussion also highlights the importance of deploying proven technologies that can increase grid capacity faster and more cost-effectively, helping utilities, regulators, and customers make better use of existing transmission infrastructure while planning for the future. | | | | |
