The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently released details for 35 projects across 20 states that received a total of $1.93 billion in allocations of the Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Credit (48C), including a $3.89 Million for Prysmian's Williamsport facility to increase manufacturing capacity of advanced transmission conductors utilizing Prysmian's innovative E3X® Technology. This expansion will double the United States' ability to manufacture advanced transmission conductors with E3X® technology. Prysmian's E3X® advanced conductor technology increases the capacity, efficiency, and reliability of transmission lines, allowing for more electric power to be transmitted with low losses and delivered across long distances without expanding the physical footprint of the project.

The facility expansion includes a 51,000-square-foot addition to the existing building to create more manufacturing space and a retention pond to handle increased stormwater run-off. This expansion will also help Prysmian supply E3X® Conductor to Invenergy's Grain Belt Express, a long-distance High Voltage Direct Current transmission line project that will deliver more affordable, reliable, and domestically sourced clean electricity to the Midwest. Prysmian's project falls into the Grid Components and Modernization category, producing critical grid components needed to bolster grid resiliency and overcome supply chain constraints to upgrading the grid, including large power transformers, grid scale batteries, substation electrical transformers, voltage regulators, and belowground and underwater electrical cables.