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2 days ago
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CTC Global Builds Up Policy and Grid Strategy Team with Addition of Paige Rodrigues
IRVINE, Calif., June 19, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CTC Global Corporation, the world's leading developer and manufacturer of high-capacity advanced conductors, is pleased to announce the addition of Paige Rodrigues as Senior Manager, Policy and Grid Strategy. In this role, Rodrigues will help drive CTC Global's state and federal policy efforts as well as initiatives with utilities and grid operators. Rodrigues joins CTC Global from Americans for a Clean Energy Grid, where she led the coalition's advocacy at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and engaged the U.S. Department of Energy on transmission policy issues. Previously, she served in the office of a U.S. Senator, leading legislative and oversight efforts on grid and transmission issues. Rodrigues holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland. CTC Global Chief Policy and Grid Strategy Officer Theodore Paradise stated, "We are excited to welcome Paige to our team. Her background in energy policy, her experience with industry stakeholders, and her deep understanding of energy regulation make her a strong addition to our team." About CTC Global: CTC Global is accelerating access to energy as the world's leading manufacturer of high-capacity advanced conductors. For over two decades, CTC Global has helped communities meet their energy needs and manage the risks associated with legacy transmission infrastructure. Today, over 300 utilities and industrial customers in over 65 countries and 30 U.S. states trust CTC to safely and quickly deploy solutions that add the greatest amount of electricity at the lowest capital cost. Headquartered in Irvine, California, over half of CTC Global's manufacturing capacity is U.S.-based. Its global operations are supported by five manufacturing facilities and an extensive network of partners around the world. CTC Global's advanced conductor is the most responsible and innovative solution to double capacity and improve reliability at scale. For more information, visit View source version on Contacts CTC GlobalTyler Dalton+1 (949) 428-8500tdalton@ DGA Group+1 212 466 6450 x 0ctc@
Business Wire
2 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
CTC Global Builds Up Policy and Grid Strategy Team with Addition of Paige Rodrigues
IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CTC Global Corporation, the world's leading developer and manufacturer of high-capacity advanced conductors, is pleased to announce the addition of Paige Rodrigues as Senior Manager, Policy and Grid Strategy. In this role, Rodrigues will help drive CTC Global's state and federal policy efforts as well as initiatives with utilities and grid operators. CTC Global is pleased to welcome Paige Rodrigues as Senior Manager of Policy and Grid Strategy Share Rodrigues joins CTC Global from Americans for a Clean Energy Grid, where she led the coalition's advocacy at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and engaged the U.S. Department of Energy on transmission policy issues. Previously, she served in the office of a U.S. Senator, leading legislative and oversight efforts on grid and transmission issues. Rodrigues holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland. CTC Global Chief Policy and Grid Strategy Officer Theodore Paradise stated, 'We are excited to welcome Paige to our team. Her background in energy policy, her experience with industry stakeholders, and her deep understanding of energy regulation make her a strong addition to our team.' About CTC Global: CTC Global is accelerating access to energy as the world's leading manufacturer of high-capacity advanced conductors. For over two decades, CTC Global has helped communities meet their energy needs and manage the risks associated with legacy transmission infrastructure. Today, over 300 utilities and industrial customers in over 65 countries and 30 U.S. states trust CTC to safely and quickly deploy solutions that add the greatest amount of electricity at the lowest capital cost. Headquartered in Irvine, California, over half of CTC Global's manufacturing capacity is U.S.-based. Its global operations are supported by five manufacturing facilities and an extensive network of partners around the world. CTC Global's advanced conductor is the most responsible and innovative solution to double capacity and improve reliability at scale. For more information, visit
Business Wire
3 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Google and CTC Global Announce Initiative to Expand American Electric Grid and Transmission Capacity, U.S. Supply Chain with Advanced Conductors
IRVINE & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Google announced a collaboration with CTC Global Corporation (CTC Global) to accelerate the deployment of next-generation transmission technology for the U.S. power grid. Together, Google and CTC Global will help scale the use of CTC Global's high-capacity, U.S.-manufactured advanced conductors, a proven technology demonstrated to boost grid capacity and reliability at unparalleled speed. Together, Google and CTC Global will help scale the use of CTC Global's high-capacity, U.S.-manufactured Advanced Conductors Share Google and CTC Global will identify high-impact transmission lines through a Request for Information (RFI) to states, utilities, and transmission developers interested in collaborating on solutions to unlock grid capacity across the country. Deployment of advanced conductors like CTC Global's has the potential to double transmission capacity in months, as opposed to the years typically needed for new transmission builds (and in some cases as much as 10 years). Rapid access to reliable, safe, and efficient transmission infrastructure is fundamental to enabling America's energy future. This initiative is designed to accelerate regional economic growth and development, add capacity, improve grid reliability and performance, and lower energy costs for all. A New Customer Approach to Accelerate Transmission Infrastructure As a part of this collaboration, transmission lines across the U.S. will be selected based on their potential to accelerate grid capacity with CTC Global's ACCC® Conductor. The initiative will prioritize projects that can deliver the greatest immediate impact and that support load growth where Google operates. To identify transmission line projects for this initiative, states, utilities, and transmission developers can respond to the RFI issued today. Selected partners and projects will gain access to a powerful combination of Google and CTC Global resources designed to accelerate deployment, including: Cost Assistance: Funding will be available to accelerate deployment of CTC Global's high-capacity ACCC® Conductors and accelerate capacity growth. Future-Ready Workforce Development: Utilities will be eligible for training to equip their workforce in the deployment of ACCC Advanced Conductors. Technical Analysis: Support for technical project studies will be available to validate the technology's integration and impact. RFI responses are due on July 14, 2025, with a full RFP to shortly follow. Applications are encouraged from areas where Google has existing or announced data centers, as well as their associated wholesale markets. 'Expanding transmission capacity presents a significant opportunity for the power system today, and Google is committed to being a catalyst for a stronger and more reliable U.S. power grid. Expanded grid capacity will enable responsible data center growth underpinning the modern digital world, while also increasing affordability for consumers, boosting energy reliability, and accelerating key industries like manufacturing,' said Amanda Peterson Corio, Google Global Head of Data Center Energy. 'Working with CTC Global, this partnership aims to dramatically cut the time and cost of adding and moving electricity to reliably power American homes and businesses.' 'This groundbreaking partnership with Google marks a positive turning point to lower electricity costs, generate economic growth, and advance U.S. energy dominance,' stated CTC Global CEO J.D. Sitton. 'Our solution uniquely delivers significant electric grid capacity with unparalleled speed. This coordinated partnership with the innovators at Google will help ensure that the U.S. invests in cost-effective solutions for the long-term that help the U.S. continue to lead the AI revolution,' Sitton explained. Supporting U.S. Manufacturing Capabilities CTC Global proudly manufactures and assembles its advanced conductor technologies in the United States, supplying the ACCC Conductor to projects in more than 30 U.S. states. CTC is also a major manufacturing exporter, with ACCC Advanced Conductor projects now installed in over 65 countries. Utilizing U.S. suppliers of carbon fiber from Arkansas, fiberglass from Texas, and other key U.S. components, CTC has been powering U.S. job creation at its U.S. factory in Irvine, California, for over 20 years. Partnering with Google to accelerate deployment of carbon-composite conductors will deliver urgently needed transmission capacity while continuing to expand this made-in-America capability and support America's competitive edge globally. Inquiries regarding the RFI and RFI eligibility may be directed to Google and CTC Global at ctc-external@ About Google: Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Through products and platforms like Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, Google Play, Google Cloud, Chrome and YouTube, Google plays a meaningful role in the daily lives of billions of people and has become one of the most widely-known companies in the world. Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. About CTC Global: CTC Global is accelerating access to energy as the world's leading developer and manufacturer of high-capacity advanced conductors. With over 124,000 miles deployed over the last two decades, CTC Global's ACCC® Advanced Conductor is the most aggressively tested and widely installed advanced conductor in North America and the world, used by over 300 utility and industrial customers in over 65 countries and 30 U.S. states to rapidly deliver the greatest amount of electricity at the lowest capital cost. The high strength, light weight, improved conductivity, and thermal stability of ACCC® can allow it to double the capacity of existing transmission lines without the need to raise or replace existing structures. The ACCC® Conductor mitigates thermal sag to help mitigate wildfire and extreme weather risks, lower overall project costs, reduces line losses by up to 40%, and cut project lead times from years to months. Headquartered in Irvine, California, over half of CTC Global's manufacturing capacity is U.S. based. For over 20 years, CTC Global has been a pioneer in the energy space, developing and manufacturing the most responsible and innovative solution to double capacity and improve reliability at scale. For more information, visit
Forbes
24-04-2025
- Business
- Forbes
CTC Global's Carbon Fiber Conductors Can Double Electricity Carriage
This is a time of stress in the electric utility industry as demand escalates. But the way to alleviate it may neither be in new generation nor in new transmission installations. Instead it may be hanging overhead in the wires themselves, known in the industry as conductors. You can see conductors on poles and pylons, moving power from the place where it was generated to the place where it will be used. Up those poles and on those pylons, a revolution is brewing: Carbon fiber conductors are replacing traditional steel cores around which the aluminum conductor is wound. This revolution, according to J.D. Sitton, chief executive officer of CTC Global, the world's largest carbon fiber conductor maker, has taken hold more vigorously in Asia than it has in the United States, but that is changing. CTC Global is headquartered in Irvine, California. The privately held company makes carbon fiber conductors in Irvine and has additional manufacturing centers in China, India, Indonesia and Paraguay. It supplies customers in 67 countries. In all, the company says, it has 125,000 miles of lines 'up in the air.' CTC Global has supplied over 40 utilities in the United States and over 300 utilities worldwide with conductors of eight different capacities, bespoke for load and conditions. The primary appeal of carbon fiber conductors is that they carry about twice the amount of electricity as traditional ones with steel cores. The core doesn't carry the current but supports the current-carrying aluminum conductor. It provides strength and stability to the line. Carbon fiber cores are lighter than steel and perform better in the field. For starters, they don't sag in heat and aren't subject to corrosion. Pylons for new lines can be spaced farther apart; line loss is lower. The strength in traditional electric cables comes from wound steel rods forming a core around which the aluminum conductor is wrapped. With carbon fiber, as exemplified by CTC Global's trademarked product line, ACCC (Aluminum Conductor Composite Core), the core is made up of strands of aircraft-standard carbon fiber wound tightly with fiberglass, and including an optic fiber strand that can be used to monitor the conductor and alert the utility to malfunctions or wildfires. For CTC Global, business is good. As Sitton explained, a utility under pressure can't wait 10 to 15 years to build a new line, so reconductoring makes sense. This has been the case in Asia, where the need for power is possibly even greater than it is in the United States. In Bangladesh, Sitton said a significant portion of the electric grid uses carbon fiber conductors. 'Traditionally, what has driven our business are utilities that need large capacity added to their grids quickly. They had a need for speed, and they didn't have the capital to do all they wanted to do at once,' Sitton explained. He added, 'So we developed our product to enable the utilities with these capacity problems to be able to address them in months rather than years, at a fraction of the cost.' Sitton said in India, CTC's Global product is deployed in 23 of them. American utilities are catching up — small and large utilities are now using carbon fiber conductors. Among them are American Electric Power, Alabama Power, Arizona Public Service, National Grid, and Southern California Edison. CTC Global, Sitton said, is the beneficiary of the data center boom and they have seen data center-related business jump 100 percent in the past year. This increase is part of a general surge in utility use and interest in carbon fiber cores. They have become a path to survival for many utilities as they grapple with regulatory uncertainty and rising demand. Reconductoring is less irksome to achieve than new construction. While the initial cost is higher, that is soon overtaken by savings all along the way with carbon fiber, from reduced line losses to more power coming through each conductor, Sitton said. Where do carbon fiber conductors have no advantage? Sitton said there is no benefit in using them in undersea and underground transmission. CTC Global's Irvine plant operates almost around the clock: 24 hours a day during the week and on a modified schedule on weekends. Spools of the materials are loaded on one end of the production lines and travel under tension through a series of winding stations. Central to the operation is what the company likes to call its 'secret sauce,' an epoxy bath that binds the strands together and protects them, said Samson Namala, director of global manufacturing. Rows of winding stations are monitored by staffers alert to any problems, inconsistencies or quality issues. No blemishes or imperfections can be allowed; the conductors will be operating in weather for many decades. Perfection is imperative. The future hangs on it, you might say.
