Solutions
New-material overhead transmission solutions that upgrade existing lines and accelerate new grid expansion with less land, lower cost, and greater reliability.
AI-driven load growth, electrification, and renewable integration are pushing power grids into a new era of higher capacity needs, faster build-out, greater reliability requirements, and tighter corridor and permitting constraints. EMAGE recognizes that the design boundaries of the grid are, fundamentally, material boundaries. When traditional material systems can no longer balance capacity, right-of-way, schedule, reliability, and lifecycle cost, the industry needs innovation not only in products, but also in materials and system solutions. That is why EMAGE develops next-generation overhead transmission solutions for both new-build and retrofit applications—to help customers unlock more capacity, improve reliability, and upgrade the grid with better lifecycle value.
Bottlenecks in greenfield builds & retrofits
The global grid is under pressure from both ends
Electrical · structural · environmental limits trace to materials
Strip every bottleneck down to its root, and you reach the same answer: it isn't an engineering problem. It's a materials problem.
Field deployments quantified outcomes · client evidence
Real validation does not happen in the lab. It happens on the grid
Material is where the ceiling actually lives. Two material families set the entire performance envelope of our system: silicone rubber, which carries the line's long-term hydrophobicity, pollution and UV behavior; and E-CR fiberglass / epoxy composites, which carry the mechanical load that steel used to. Both are formulated, qualified, and aged in-house under ISO and IEC accelerated-aging protocols.
CICA Development Path
ACFS™ Conductor Development Path
Material is the foundation. Product is its expression.
CICA
CICA is a key component used in composite conductors for overhead power transmission. It integrates a high-strength composite core with insulating and reinforcing materials to provide excellent mechanical strength, durability, and electrical performance. CICA helps improve conductor reliability and supports higher transmission capacity.
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ACFS™ Conductor
ACFS™ conductor is a high-performance overhead power line conductor that replaces the traditional steel core with a new designed carbon fiber–reinforced composite core. This advanced design improves strength, efficiency, thermal performance, and cost efficiency.
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CICA Verification
Artificial Pollution test
RIV test
CIFO test
Visual corona test
Assembly mechanical test
Fatigue test
Solution Innovation: CICA + ACFS
No single product rebuilds a grid
The real breakthrough comes from redesigning CICA and conductor as a single integrated system — the CICA defines tower-head geometry and insulation coordination, the conductor defines current capacity and sag behavior, and only when both are co-optimized do right-of-way width, tower height, current capacity, and per-km cost improve simultaneously.
Greenfield Solution
Compared with traditional solutions, the EMAGE solution enables project-specific optimization of:
- Materials
- Size
- Performance
- Spans
- Easement width
- Line length
- Environmental clearing
- Carbon emissions
- Visual amenity
- Heritage outcomes
CAPACITY can DOUBLE while unit capacity cost drops significantly
IMPROVED through life SAFETY and MAINTENANCE performance
Reduced ENVIRONMENTAL impact (and offset requirements)
FASTER EIA2 and permitting, shortening grid build-out
Reduced LAND ACCESS costs and easier SOCIAL PERMITTING
Brownfield Solution - Capacity Uprating
Compared to Traditional Solution
Using Same-diameter HTMS Conductor
Post-upgrade Capacity ≈ 1.7 ~ 1.9× Pre-upgrade capacity
Enlarged-diameter Conductor
Post-upgrade Capacity ≈ 2.1 ~ 2.2× Pre-upgrade capacity
Overall Advantages
- Project schedule greatly shortened
- Unit capacity cost significantly reduced
- Much less land use
- Significantly improved reliability
- Significantly lower carbon footprint
- Easier Social Permitting
Brownfield Solution - Voltage Uprating
Compared to Traditional Solution
Voltage Uprating
Post-upgrade Capacity = 2.5 ~ 3.3× Pre-upgrade capacity
Feasibility of Voltage Uprating
Traditional tower electrical restriction: Phase to ground clearance
EMAGE solution electrical restriction: Phase to phase clearance (CICA replacing of line insulator and steel cross-arm)
Overall Advantages
- Project schedule significantly shortened
- Unit capacity cost significantly reduced
- Much lower land take
- Reliability greatly improved
- Carbon footprint significantly reduced
- Easier Social Permitting
Real validation does not happen in the lab. It happens on the grid.
We have built a global application evidence chain — every project paired with quantified benefit, in-service duration, and client confirmation. From polar cold and tropical marine to high altitude and heavy pollution zones, the performance of our solution families across climate bands and voltage levels is documented.