wiredinUSA August 2011

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Transmission lines in Poland

On 22nd June, Composite Technology Corporation completed a 110kV line, using ACCC® conduc- tor, for PGE Dystrybucja Bialystok in Poland. The composite conductor was supplied by Lamifil using ACCC core supplied by CTC Cable Corporation. The 2km line, part of a line that runs between Bielsk Podlaski and Hajnowka (an urbanized area in

Eastern Poland), was strung with ACCC Helsinki conductor on existing steel towers. This conductor was selected in preference to a larger ACSR conductor due to the superior sag characteristics and higher capacity of the smaller ACCC conductor which allowed the existing towers to be used. ACSR would have required new, higher towers to be constructed.

IEWC steps into Brazil

First Wind completes 60MW power project in Maine

Wire, cable, and wire management products supplier IEWC has revealed plans to expand its international distribution services with the opening of a sales office and stocking facility near São Paulo, Brazil. The new facility will allow IEWC to more efficiently support its customers in the South American marketplace. “Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo, is a vibrant and modern metropolitan area of 20 million people, and it is the manufacturing center for all of South America,” commented IEWC CEO David Nestingen. “We already have strong partnerships with our suppliers

in this region, and we look forward to bringing our supply chain solutions to the Brazilian marketplace.” Ricardo Garcia, president of IEWC Mexico, will be responsible for overseeing the Brazil distribution initiative that is expected to be complete by the end of the year. Garcia has been with IEWC for more than seven years and was responsible for championing IEWC’s greenfield startup in Aguascalientes and, more recently, Monterrey, Mexico. “This move will be the fourth continent in which IEWC now does business,” confirmed Nestingen.

Wind energy company First Wind has completed its 60MW Rollins Wind project in Penobscot County in the US state of Maine. Situated in the towns of Lincoln, Burlington, Lee and Winn, the wind farm is equipped with 40 units of GE 1.5MW wind turbine and is expected to generate enough energy to power nearly 23,000 Maine homes every year. Electricity generated from the facility will be sold to Bangor Hydro and Central

Maine Power under long-term power supply contracts. First Wind said this power project will contribute to the local economy by delivering an estimated $24m in tax revenues to the four neighboring communities over a 30-year period. With the completion of the Rollins Wind project, First Wind now has four projects in Maine with a total gener- ating capacity of 185MW.

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