Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs) will be out in force at CIGRE Paris, where thousands of power systems experts will gather to share knowledge from August 25th to August 30th, 2024. Attend any of 𝟭𝟰 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 and discussions on Dynamic Line Ratings (DLR), Advanced Power Flow Control (APFC), and Topology Optimization to learn more about GETs. Find all the details on our website: https://lnkd.in/dXR472et Find WATT Members at their booths: DLR Prisma Photonics: 335 - meet Eran Inbar, Eitan Elkin and others! Heimdall Power: 155 - meet Vemund Wilson Losnedal and others! LineVision: 135B - meet Rachael Grudt, Brian Leist and others! Laki Power: 225 - meet Angeline S. and Haukur Örn Hauksson Ampacimon: 148 - meet Javier Ortego, Brian Berry, Laurent Gerlache, Yves Brusten and others! Topology Optimization NewGrid: 337 - meet Pablo Ruiz, Robin MacLaren and others! Meet APFC experts from Smart Wires Inc.: Hedd Roberts, Joaquin Peirano, Mark Norton, David Urbaez León, Dilan Caro, Juan Pablo Botero Sepúlveda
WATT Coalition
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The WATT Coalition supports education and policies to expand the deployment of grid-enhancing technologies.
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The Working for Advanced Transmission Technologies (WATT) Coalition advocates for policy that supports wide deployment of Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs), to improve grid operations and planning. In operations, these technologies reduce congestion costs and improve economic dispatch, situational awareness and reliability. In planning, they reduce the time, cost and complexity of integrating new generation and load. WATT members include Ampacimon, LineVision, Lindsey Systems, NewGrid, Smart Wires, and WindSim Americas Inc. Learn about unlocking more value from the grid at watt-transmission.org.
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EPRI CEO Arshad Mansoor's call to utility and system operators is: "let's go and shape the future now." His speech kicking off the #EPRISummerSeminar2024 is a must-see! Grid Enhancing Technology adoption is one of EPRI's core priorities over the next year. Load growth and the evolving resource mix make grid capacity a number one concern for utilities across the country. https://lnkd.in/gZPBT6WW
Arshad Mansoor, Summer Seminar 2024
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Eric-Work Holdsworth, managing director, clean energy and environmental policy at the Edison Electric Institute, is quoted on how utilities are developing comfort with Grid Enhancing Technologies in Bloomberg Law: “It’s all relatively new—(the executives) have to find out about it, they have to get comfortable with it, and then there’s the scale of the grid. If you can avoid building at least some additional grid, that’s just all the better given permitting and siting and timelines all the headaches associated with that.” Read Daniel Moore's article about actions by The White House and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to accelerate GETs deployments: https://lnkd.in/gtJXRXsX
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It is my honor and pleasure to welcome EPRI Board and Advisory Council members, as well as invited thought leaders, to #EPRISummerSeminar this week. The theme of this year’s event is “First Movers: Shrinking Technology Gaps,” and it’s especially timely. We have to collectively build and strengthen infrastructure at a rapid scale and do it in a smarter way than done in the past. This includes increasing utilization of today’s grid through grid-enhancing technologies (#LETSGETSET) and hyperscaling load flexibility using the grid of the future (#LETSGOFLEX). EPRI is working with stakeholders to make expanding load flexibility a key imperative this decade. To have new tools ready beyond 2030, there is an urgent need to accelerate emerging, low-carbon technologies. Significant real-world experience shows transitioning from first-of-a-kind through nth-of-a-kind new technologies takes approximately 10 deployments. Working collaboratively, EPRI is suggesting 10 real-world deployments of numerous emerging technologies. This is an opportunity for EPRI, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s national labs, and industry to collaborate, capturing the lessons learned and bridging the gap between innovation and scalability to move from demonstration to deployment. Working together, we can tackle today’s challenges for tomorrow’s opportunities as part of a reliable, affordable energy future. The real work begins when Summer Seminar ends. Let’s go to work. #LETSGO10!
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Our CEO Joanna L. Lohkamp joined EPRI's Summer Seminar to share how utilities are using our modular APFC solution, SmartValve™, to unlock firm capacity and solve their critical grid issues across four continents⚡ Thanks to EPRI for hosting a great event for energy leaders, Andrew Phillips for moderating, and fellow panelists David Wright FREng of National Grid, Julia Selker of WATT Coalition, and Jørgen Festervoll of Heimdall Power for a lively discussion on grid enhancing technologies and how EPRI can help accelerate their uptake.
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Vice President of Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Take a look at this article I wrote in RealClearEnergy where I discuss EPRI's recently launched GET SET initiative and how grid-enhancing technologies (GETs) can help in the efforts of increasing the capacity, efficiency, reliability and safety of existing transmission lines. https://lnkd.in/e4M_47RP
"Electricity is the backbone of the U.S. economy. As our country's power needs grow while electricity companies balance affordability and reliability, we need all the tools in the toolbox at our disposal," said EPRI's VP of Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure, Andrew Phillips, in a recent article with RealClearEnergy. In the article, Phillips discusses how grid-enhancing technologies (GETs) can help promote efforts to increase the capacity, efficiency, reliability, and safety of existing transmission lines. He then delves into EPRI's recently launched GET SET initiative, which is focused on four potentially high-impact technologies that can increase transmission capacity. Read more about those here: https://lnkd.in/ec8DaJjS. Read the full op-ed here: https://lnkd.in/ebfN8m_3.
EPRI's GET SET Initiative
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Vice President of Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Thank you to Jørgen Festervoll, Julia Selker and Joanna L. Lohkamp for joining me on EPRI's Summer Seminar panel on grid-enhancing technologies (GETs). It was a dynamic discussion on the challenges and solutions for moving from pilots and limited deployments to widespread adoption and integration into day to day operations. The panel offered additional guidance and priorities for our GET SET initiative, such as system operation guidance, integration into EMS, and application guides for deployment. I look forward to our continued collaboration. #EPRIsummerseminar
Yesterday I had the great honor of being part of a panel on Maximizing Grid Capacity Through Technology and Design, moderated by Andrew Phillips at the EPRI #summerseminar in Vail! Together with David Wright FREng, Joanna L. Lohkamp and Julia Selker we discussed how adopting innovative grid-enhancing technologies (GETs) such as Dynamic Line Ratings and Advanced Power Flow Controllers is required to increase the capacity of existing transmission assets while planning new transmission construction in parallel. A big thanks to EPRI for putting together such a wonderful seminar, to all the moderators and panalists for their insights and perspectives and to the participants for great discussions all throughout the seminar! #eprisummerseminar #getset #dynamiclinerating
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Pictured below: me listing all of the benefits of #GridEnhancingTechnologies for an audience of utility and ISO/RTO leaders. It has been so inspiring to be at the EPRI Summer Seminar this week. Huge thanks to Andrew Phillips for coordinating this panel and to the EPRI GET SET initiative team (Anna Lafoyiannis)! Why did GETs come up in almost every panel and presentation on the first day of the conference (not just the one featuring WATT Coalition, Heimdall Power, Smart Wires Inc. and National Grid)? 1) They unlock significant capacity on the grid - some examples shared on stage found 18% and 25% more transfer capacity across the existing network, and WATT has many more examples: https://lnkd.in/dtEtzAsR. 2) They can be installed in a year or less, sometimes without taking any outages. 3) They are very low-cost, often paying for themselves in less than two years WITHOUT any value stacking - all you have to think about is EITHER enabling new generation, reducing grid congestion, or supporting larger transmission upgrades and investments. We were each asked to raise a challenge inhibiting the widespread deployment of GETs in the United States. I discussed the need for utility leaders to ensure that the standards, operations, transmission planning teams and others were all committed to evolving practices to unlock capacity with GETs. We also talked about the need for utilities and ISOs to collaborate on GETs. Either can slow down the other as they integrate these tools, but if they work past "nos" to find the "yeses," the system benefits come quickly. California ISO's leadership and partnership with state agencies and utilities on California's $600 million U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Grid Innovation Program award is a great example of collaboration to leap forward on GETs adoption. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/d5kCYihc
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Join the "Advancements in Transmission Technology" panel at #ACPRT24 in Phoenix this September! Sarah Toth with RMI, Saugata Biswas with GridAstra, Ted Bloch-Rubin with Smart Wires Inc., Sarah Sofia with REsurety, Inc., and Alison Wilkes with LineVision will explore recent technological enhancements in the field of transmission. The discussion will touch on grid enhancing technologies (GETs) including dynamic line ratings, advanced power flow devices, transmission switching, and advanced conductors. Learn about the critical role these technologies play in enhancing reliability and the optimization of transmission line utilization across both technological advancements and their policy applications. Register today: https://bit.ly/ACPRT
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