Fostering Grid Flexibility and Renewables Integration with Advanced Composite Overhead Conductors

The past two decades have seen a soaring deployment of renewable generation capacity across the globe, mainly solar or wind power, which is now creating operational challenges for transmission and distribution operators as well as concerns about efficient connexion with existing networks. The flexibility of future power grids will require flexible operating infrastructures. This article details the case of overhead polymeric composite core conductors, also known as High Temperature Low Sag (HTLS) or Advanced Conductors, and the benefits to enabling operating flexibility and capacity.