What Makes Building Transmission So Hard?
ScottMadden
There are generators who want to get projects built, but they don’t know until very late in the process what it’s actually going to cost to upgrade the associated transmission system.
Transmission
Transmission Modernization Essential for Carbon Reduction Goals
A More Flexible Grid
Shifting generation almost entirely toward zero-carbon sources will require the build-out of substantial new transmission capacity.
Science Must Guide Decisions About Transmission Line Ratings
Risks of Adopting New Methodologies
The existing transmission system is being asked to accomplish something it was never designed to do – deliver large amounts of wind and solar energy long distances to the homes and businesses that need it.
Power Electronics Can Move More Power Through Transmission Corridors
Consider Converting to HVDC, Part 4
Options like the use of FACTS, or converting an existing HVAC to HVDC, may offer easier ways to increase capacity using existing rights of way.
Up the Capacity of an HVAC Line
Consider Converting to HVDC, Part 3
“We describe several ways the capacity of an existing high voltage AC transmission line can be increased and show that sometimes the most cost-effective strategy is to convert the line to high voltage DC.”
When Texas Seceded, Its Grid That Is
Judge Cudahy’s Second Alamo Article
PUF reviews Judge Richard Cudahy’s famous 1995 article on the so-called Midnight Connection that led to the disconnection of the Texas grid from the eastern and western grids. Even more relevant today given the ERCOT meltdown.
Modernizing Aging Transmission
A Golden Opportunity
Utilities need to consider modernization a golden opportunity to unite officials, consumers, and industry on a quest to reimagine transmission.
Hawaiian Electric: Christian Whitney
Director for Pole Infrastructure Enterprise
“In order for anyone to accomplish their sustainability goals or for Hawaiian Electric to accomplish our reliability goals, the future is all in the telecom and the technology.”
How Do We Accelerate Transmission Development?
Challenges and Opportunities
Conversations with former FERC Chair Jim Hoecker and legendary developer Michael Skelly at the International Summit on the Electric Transmission Grid.
The End of Big Iron
Emerging Cost Advantages
How wind and solar became cheaper than hydro, coal, and nuclear.