Grid Innovations

Technology developments, industry practices and regulatory drivers molding the power grid of the future.

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Grid Innovations

Eaton Latest Electrical Supplier to Expand, Sees Gains in Industrial Electrification

Feb. 19, 2024
Power management firm Eaton's largest growth area is industrial electrification.
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Grid Innovations

Destination: Real Zero-How Will We Get There?

Jan. 30, 2024
How the power sector can reach net zero and eventually real zero carbon content, and how the transmission and distribution grid can help deliver on these goals.
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Grid Innovations

DOE Funding Advanced Cybersecurity Tools to Protect Energy Infrastructure

Jan. 18, 2024
The $30 million funding for cyber tools is in support of CESER’s work to develop new technology to protect clean energy infrastructure from cyber threats.
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Smart Grid

Avangrid’s Central Maine Power Secures $30 Million To Deploy Smart Grid Technology

Oct. 23, 2023
CMP will install the distribution supervisory control and data acquisition switch program to help prevent system faults, especially in disadvantaged communities.
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Utility Business

PJM Files Changes to Capacity Market To Promote Reliability

Oct. 18, 2023
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proposal responds to resource adequacy needs of evolving grid.

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Overhead Transmission

NYPA Uses Line Monitoring Technology to Protect Power Line Health in Winter

Jan. 22, 2024
NYPA uses fiber-optic sensing, based on the principles of distributed acoustic sensing, to identify power line conditions in real time.
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Generation and Renewables

Ontario Company Assesses Feasibility Of Small Modular Reactors For Alberta Grid

Jan. 18, 2024
Ontario Power Generation is building North America’s fleet of SMRs at its Darlington New Nuclear site in Ontario.
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Data Analytics

Smart Grid’s Big Data And Granularity

Jan. 11, 2024
As the digitalization of the power grid grows, data optimization gets more complicated.
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Overhead Transmission

Xcel Energy To Build Minnesota Energy Connection Transmission Line; Retires Coal Unit At Sherco In Minnesota

Jan. 9, 2024
The transmission line will link about 2,000 MW of low-cost wind and solar resources in southwest Minnesota to the grid.