Southern California Edison crews installed a new carbon-fiber-core advanced conductor on a transmission line — a first-of-its-kind installation for the utility — to increase capacity without rebuilding existing towers.
Reconductoring with advanced conductors can raise the capacity of an existing transmission line by an estimated 25 to 80 percent, a faster and lower-cost path to grid expansion than building new lines. The work was carried out along a five-mile span in the greater Los Angeles area.
This coverage originally appeared in Southern California Edison's “Energized by Edison.” It is shared here as external coverage of advanced-conductor technology relevant to Greenbelt's grid-enablement investments.