Composite conductor
A high-temperature, low-sag overhead conductor from 3M, designed to help eliminate transmission bottlenecks is getting its first use in California.

A high-temperature, low-sag overhead conductor from
, designed to help eliminate transmission bottlenecks that increasingly have plagued electricity grids in recent years causing brownouts and blackouts, is getting its first use in
.
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and a second utility in
Three other major
Xcel Energy, a major utility, is already using the ACCR to relieve congestion on a 10-mile line in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region. In addition, the Western Area Power Administration recently said it will install the ACCR on a key 80-mile line in
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