CTC Global
Theodore Paradise is Chief Policy and Grid Strategy Officer at CTC Global.
The building of electric utility infrastructure, with its many reasons for delays, is feared to possibly stymie the needed growth of the industry to handle increased demand, as well as hobble the transition to clean energy. It is complicated, and technology is looked at as one of the solutions.
Enter CTC Global, on a mission to educate all on a proven technology to overcome the need for electric transmission. For more than twenty years, the company has developed products and services to expand access to electricity and enable a fast, cost effective, and environmentally responsible expansion of the grid.
To meet historic demand growth and the overflowing interconnection queue of resources, CTC Global’s solution is the ACCC, a conductor that doubles capacity in the existing right of way. Here, CTC Global Chief Policy and Grid Strategy Officer Theodore Paradise explains how advanced conductors will help solve a big problem.
PUF’s Steve Mitnick: There’s so much pressure to respond to load growth and talk about speed to market that the grid can’t respond fast enough for this new load. How do you assess that?
Theodore Paradise: We’re in the middle of a confluence of events right now that is years in the making. Yes, the AI data center energy boom is getting a lot of headlines right now because it’s unprecedented; we usually don’t talk about tens of gigawatts of load being added in the course of a few years.