Our Overhead Connectors
Reliable Power Transmission
Your overhead power grid is essential for serving electricity to millions of people and businesses across thousands of miles and kilometers, under any type of extreme weather condition. You can count on us to help you connect and protect it against external threats. We have been supporting utilities for over 65 years, designing solutions and innovating with new technologies to ensure power continuity and minimize the risk of unplanned outages. Our solutions are field-proven in harsh environments and can be customized to your requirements if the solution isn’t in our portfolio.
40%
of grid infrastructure in advanced economies is past its mid-life, highlighting the urgent need for modernization.¹
$750
$750 billion annual projected infrastructure investment costs by 2030²
$80
$80+ billion per year is lost to power outages in developing economies, highlighting the high cost of unreliable electricity for utilities and their customers.³
One Connectivity Partner
From transmission to distribution to urban networks – we are your one source for a breadth of connectivity, insulation, protection, monitoring and installation training needs. Our products are trusted the world over for ‘install and forget’ reliability and are based on decades of experience in working with utilities around the globe. Our portfolio includes trusted brands including Raychem cable accessories, AMP connectors and Kries smart grid systems.
Discover our product offering for your overhead lines and get an overview of where they fit.
Protecting Wildlife
Connection & Mounting
Our AMPACT connectors utilize Wedge Pressure Technology to help you overcome the physical and electrical limitations imposed by traditional compression or bolted connectors. Our Insulation Piercing Connectors integrate a shear head that will break when the right torque is applied to ensure a reliable electrical connection without damaging the cable.
Grid Monitoring Solutions
Disruptions to the grid caused by aging infrastructure, extreme weather events, wildlife interaction, or fallen conductors can cause power interruptions with high fault currents. Our solutions provide a combination of communicating versions, the IKI-OH-Butler and IKI-OH-Radio, which allow remote reporting to a disruption control center.
Wildlife & Asset Protection Solutions
Our solutions provide raptor covers, fuse cut out covers, re-closer and distribution covers protect pole mounted equipment from accidental and momentary contact from nesting and perching birds and storm debris.
Insulators & Arresters
Our portfolio of insulators and surge arresters offer a wide range of polymeric, porcelain and hybrid insulators. They are field-proven to protect your installation in many applications against weather-related outages.
Cable Accessories Solutions
Our Raychem heat shrink and cold shrink terminations handle long-term electrical stress. Easy to install with high-reliability thanks to our material science.
Consult
Our TE experts and network of authorized distributors can support you wherever you are located to help you select the most suitable solutions for your power supply.
Design
Collaborate with our engineering team to create a custom solution. Our research and development teams have years of experience and thousands of patents, which can be leveraged for your needs.
Test
We test custom solutions in our labs to ensure the highest performance and reliability.
Train
We provide tailored installation training courses, and competency assessments for installers, trainers and supervisors.
SOURCES:
¹Brookfield, “Gridlock: Why Investment in Transmission Is Critical to Reach Net Zero."
²Umbach, Frank. “Generating Clean Energy Is the Easy Part.” GIS Reports Online
³Rentschler et al., Underutilized Potential: The Business Costs of Unreliable Infrastructure in Developing Countries.
