High voltage and utility cable buyers
Transmission conductor, substation bus, shielded cable and legacy constructions. This is material that has to be identified from markings before it can be valued.
Cable reels staged at a substation gate
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Six details are enough for a first review: what the cable is, the metal, the size, the footage or reel count, the condition and where it sits. Photographs can follow by text or email. There is no fee and no obligation, and nothing moves until written terms are agreed.
Utility material behaves differently from plant cable. A drum of 795 kcmil ACSR and a reel of 15 kV shielded cable are both power products, but one is strung on towers and the other is pulled through duct, and the buyers for each are different.
The pages below cover the conductor, the voltage classes that matter in Tennessee, the station material that accumulates during substation work, and the legacy constructions — paper-insulated lead-covered and high-pressure fluid-filled — that come out of older systems and need handling rather than selling.
- Bare overhead conductor, ACSR, AAAC and ACAR
- Substation bus, jumper, tube bus and ground grid copper
- Shielded cable from 69 kV to 500 kV classes
- PILC, HPFF and other legacy constructions
- OPGW and ADSS aerial fibre
- Reconductor, storm damage and decommissioning projects
Tennessee voltage map
- Transmission
- 500 kV and 161 kV
- Subtransmission
- 69 kV
- Distribution
- 15 kV and 25 kV
- Legacy
- PILC and HPFF
Every high voltage page
Grouped by conductor, voltage class, station material and project type.
Overhead line conductor
8 pages- Transmission conductorBare overhead conductor for 69 kV to 500 kV lines
- ACSR conductorAluminum conductor steel reinforced, sold by code name
- AAAC conductorAll-aluminum alloy conductor, 6201 strands, no steel core
- ACAR conductorAluminum conductor with an alloy core instead of steel
- 500 kV conductorBundled large ACSR from the transmission backbone
- Overhead distribution conductor15 kV and 25 kV overhead conductor in distribution sizes
- Covered conductorTree wire for 15 kV and 25 kV vegetation programs
- Aerial spacer cableCovered conductors held on spacers with a messenger
Voltage classes and shielded cable
6 pages- 69 kV cableShielded single-conductor subtransmission cable
- 161 kV cableHeavy shielded cable at transmission voltage
- 230 kV cableLegacy 230 kV cable, paper or pipe-type
- Medium voltage cableShielded power cable from 2 kV to 35 kV
- Switchgear cableMedium voltage cable cut from switchgear work
- Padmount cable15 kV and 25 kV cable feeding pad-mounted transformers
Legacy and pipe-type cable
2 pagesSubstation material
4 pagesFibre and communications
2 pagesProjects and situations
7 pages- Utility surplus conductorSpare and obsolete conductor from cooperative and municipal stores
- Reconductor conductorConductor taken down when a line is rebuilt to a larger size
- Storm damage conductorConductor and cable recovered after storm repair work
- Decommissioned substation cableBus, control, power and ground cable from retired stations
- Plant changeover cableCable from model changeovers and tooling moves
- Service drop wireTriplex and quadruplex service drop at 600 V
- Network secondary cableLarge secondary cable from downtown network systems
Questions on utility material
Can a plant sell transmission conductor directly?
Sometimes. Large plants with their own substations and incoming lines hold conductor and station material that never belonged to a utility. It is reviewed the same way, but the documentation usually has to come from the plant's own records rather than a utility stores system.
What do you need for a conductor reel with no tag?
Strand count, strand diameter if it can be measured safely, overall diameter, and a photograph of the cut end. From those a buyer can usually infer the code name and construction, though the value is set lower than for a tagged reel.
Do you handle legacy oil-filled cable?
HPFF is a decommissioning project rather than a cable purchase. The pipe, the oil and the access all have to be addressed before the conductor is discussed, and the safe answer is usually a site-specific plan rather than a figure quoted from a distance.
Send us your reel list
Six details are enough for a first review: what the cable is, the metal, the size, the footage or reel count, the condition and where it sits. Photographs can follow by text or email. There is no fee and no obligation, and nothing moves until written terms are agreed.
Station or line material to clear?
Voltage class, conductor code or size, footage and the site rules. That is what a utility lot review starts with.
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