Reduce project time and cost while improving system value.
3M ACCR can save you money and time on thermal upgrade projects and provide more value from existing assets.
You need to get power to your customers on time, in budget and with as little risk to the system and the company as possible. Yet, increasing population density, environmental concerns and lack of available land make your job more challenging than ever.
3M ACCR allows you to balance ratepayer and shareholder value by retaining and using your existing towers and associated equipment. Because 3M ACCR is an advanced transmission conductor designed to replace ACSR or ACSS on existing structures, you get up to two to three times the capacity, while delivering continued value to the shareholder and reducing ratepayer impacts from major construction projects.
3M ACCR is an advanced transmission conductor designed to replace ACSR or ACSS on existing structures, giving you up to two to three times the capacity without the risks of a major construction project –
reduce construction outages;
speed up and simplify permitting;
reduce project schedule;
increase budget certainty;
reduce contingencies;
minimize new environmental impacts on existing rights of way.
3M ACCR reduces your project schedule and budget risks. By eliminating the need for expensive new towers, land acquisitions and other factors, upgrading with 3M ACCR can offer substantial savings over ACSR and ACSS – even at a higher conductor cost-per-mile (see the example below). For many thermal upgrades, 3M ACCR can give you the high-performance, cost-effective solution you’ve been looking for.
The example below shows a 3M customer’s costs to upgrade by building a line parallel to an existing line, compared to the costs for reconductoring with 3M ACCR.
Construction outage dropped from 20 months to 4 months.
Based on actual utility cost estimates for building a parallel line with ACSR to achieve comparable capacity increases.
Yet, you can still relieve transmission congestion within your local region, providing greater flexibility when importing power from or exporting to other regions. This can translate into significant cost savings through reduced reliability-must-run (RMR) and congestion costs, increased independent power producer (IPP) output and access to least cost or renewable generation.
