US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GIVES SMART WIRES TECHNOLOGY A BOOST
U.S. leaders recognize how advanced power flow control technologies, like those implemented by Smart Wires’, can save consumers money and promote clean energy. This week, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) took actions to support the widescale roll-out of grid enhancing technologies (GETs), and Smart Wires is poised to lead the way.FERC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) requiring investor-owned utilities to consider such technologies as part of their traditional transmission planning process. The DOE released a report –