Tag Archives: grid
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EPRI’s GET SET Initiative Gets Going
As the need for transmission capacity grows, EPRI launches a new effort to evaluate the performance of grid-enhancing technologies. By Chris Warren America needs a lot more transmission grid capacity. That was the basic finding in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Transmission Needs Study released last year. There are many reasons why an […]
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How EPRI Laboratories Deliver Confidence to a Rapidly Changing Industry
By Chris Warren In the spring of 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a report detailing the potential benefits that several grid-enhancing technologies (GETs) could provide to improve the capacity of the transmission system. The critical need to bolster bulk grid capacity has been a topic of intense interest recently, thanks to the […]
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How Collaborative Research Bolsters Utility Cyber Security
By Chris Warren The FBI is worried. Over the past few months, the head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Christopher Wray, has repeatedly and very publicly sounded the alarm about the threat of cyberattacks on America’s most critical infrastructure, including the electric power system. “The fact is, …targeting of our critical infrastructure is […]
