Electric Generation

Renewables: Solar | Wind | Hydro | Nuclear | GeoThermal | BESS (Battery Energy Storage)

Geopolitical forces are accelerating the transition from conventional sources of energy to renewable sources in order to meet climate goals. Investments in renewable energy along with emerging technologies comes with volatility, uncertainty, and risk. We track the inputs that build the foundation of our energy infrastructure, which allows your firm to invest appropriately in technology that will power this transition.

Successful investments into renewables requires the ability to gauge cost structures, tap partnerships, and work strategically along the value chain. The C Three Group can provide insights and direct data to drive the best decisions today for the best ROI tomorrow.

Non-renewables

The C Three Group provides detailed information on non-renewable generation projects–planned, under development, and operating. Our database also tracks major expansion and environmental upgrades to existing projects.

Energy security is at the core of a functional economy, and while there are strong pulls into the renewables space, the non-renewable sources of electricity generation will continue to be a necessity as the transition to green technologies grows and matures.

In addition to tracking all North American operating electric generation projects, The C Three Group offers the most comprehensive source for planned new-generation capacity.

Upcoming Utilty-Scaled Projects

Electric Transmission and Distribution

Lines | Substations | Grid Resiliency Programs | New, Rebuilds, Reconductors, & Upgrades

Transmission

The C Three Group is the most comprehensive source for transmission projects for 69–765 kV in North America. We track key project elements from early ideation through maturation. These insights help your firm gauge new growth opportunities, plan with your suppliers and customers, and optimize your workforce.

Distribution

Distribution programs for grid resiliency, driven largely by storm and fire hardening, bring to the forefront the necessary investments that will deliver a highly reliable grid. As our economy becomes increasingly electrified, legislative and regulatory policies will continue to propel significant infrastructure investments.

Upcoming Projects

Pipelines & Processing Facilities

PetroChemical | Natural Gas | Water | Emerging Technologies

We track new pipelines and processing facility projects in the petrochemical, natural gas, water, emerging technologies industries, and major upgrade capital. These include traditional pipelines and facilities for petrochemicals as well as emerging energy sources such as renewable natural gas (RNG), hydrogen (gray, blue, and green), and carbon capture technologies. The C Three Group monitors projects both big and small. Whether the project is in early ideation from a major player or is currently underway in a small portfolio, we track it in our database.

Natural Gas Distribution Programs

We also provide comprehensive overviews of all LDC pipeline replacement and expansion programs by individual utilities–we track replacement programs by miles completed and miles remaining as well as capital budgets.

Storage

Carbon Capture:
The C Three Group tracks carbon capture and storage projects (CCS) from the concept and development phase through operational completion throughout all of North America.

The Carbon Capture market continues to rapidly expand as CO2 reduction goals increase, especially as government funding and incentives provide additional support for these targets.

CCS projects are made up of many components including Pipelines, Processing Facilities, and Storage facilities. CCS involves the capturing of CO2 emissions from industrial processes. This carbon is then transported to storage facilities, where the carbon is typically stored deep underground in geological formations. It is then piped to the end users such as operations within the petrochemical industry. The C Three Group tracks all scaled projects, from a single 12” pipeline to the large separation and processing facilities.

Hydrogen:
The C Three Group tracks hydrogen projects including Gray, Blue, and Green Hydrogen. Hydrogen project tax credits will help drive many more hydrogen projects in the future–and The C Three Group will track all of them.

Gray hydrogen is derived from natural gas and fossil fuels, which makes it the least renewable form of hydrogen. Blue Hydrogen is produced using the same chemical processing technique used to make gray. The difference with blue hydrogen is that the CO2 produced does not escape into the environment. Instead, it is captured at the production facility and stored separately. Green hydrogen uses a technique that employs electrolysis—the separation of hydrogen and oxygen molecules by applying electrical energy to water. Renewable sources such as wind and solar power may generate the electricity for this process, increasing its “greenness”.

Upcoming Projects

Telecom, Data Centers & FCC Approved Structures

Broadband | Fiber | HyperScaled Data Centers | OPGW (Optical Ground Wire)

The C Three Group tracks 5G, fiber optics, broadband, data centers, OPGW (optical ground wire) and structures seeking FCC approval.

Data Center growth is exponentially driven by technologies such as cloud-based operations, digitization of information, and crypto-mining. Data Centers currently account for 2% of US electricity consumption and will continue to rise as digitization touches most aspects of our lives. As the "Internet of Things" continues to grow exponentially, the number and scale of new data centers are growing just as rapidly. Crypto mining has added another major driver of data center capacity demand.

Additionally, governmental support is incentivizing significant broadband deployment in areas that are in need–where hundreds of new fiber-optics deployments are underway throughout the U.S. and Canada. The C Three Group is the single source for a plethora of individual project information. Electric utilities are using their existing infrastructure to build out significant fiber networks for their own use. Virtually every new transmission line and many transmission line upgrades include OPGW (optical ground-wire) deployments.

As the "Internet of Things" continues to accelerate, and digitization and electrification of our society increase every year, the energy necessary to enable the processing, transfer, cooling, storage, and streaming among other data-heavy functions will continue to drive demand for a more robust infrastructure.

Upcoming Projects