GreenTechMedia

MARCH 13, 2020

Over the past decade, Smart Wires has been taking on the novel challenge of digital controls for the high-voltage transmission grid. Smart Wires is one of a handful of companies developing digital power flow control systems that could revolutionize how power grids function, compared to the mostly electromechanical system in place today.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

All of these benefits can be captured with solar, wind, existing hydropower and lithium-ion battery technologies at projected 2030 prices, he added. It co-optimizes grid capacity investments and hourly operations costs of generation, storage, and transmission to meet projected electricity demand in 2040.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

This is a valuable safety feature in a world where power grid failures are causing deadly wildfires , Gilmer noted. Renewable energy projects are “awaiting interconnections because of the inefficiency of the transmission we have,” Jon Wellinghoff, FERC chairman from 2009 to 2013 and CEO of Grid Policy, told GTM.

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