Chongqing Electric Installs 3M ACCR to Increase Transmission Capacity

Chongqing Electric Installs 3M ACCR to Increase Transmission Capacity

3M announced that Chongqing Electric Power has become the second major utility in China to install 3M's Aluminum Conductor Composite Reinforced to increase transmission capacity on a key line without the need to build larger transmission towers.

The Chinese utility said that it needed extra capacity to meet the anticipated heavy power demand for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and did not have time to construct new towers.

This installation is expected to serve more than a half-million residents within two districts in the Chongqing City, in the Sichuan Province. In late 2007, Shanghai Electric became the first utility outside of the US to install the 3M Aluminum Conductor Composite Reinforced (ACCR), which can carry more than twice the power of conventional steel conductors of the same diameter, the company said.

Using existing towers, Chongqing Electric has installed a two-circuit line of approximately 5.5km, linking the Shuinian and Shuangshan substations.

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