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    Trying to Speed up Power Grid Permits, DOE Issues Final Transmission Rule

    April 25, 2024
    The White House says the rule will streamline transmission project review timelines while respecting the environmental permitting process.
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    FirstEnergy’s American Transmission Systems Upgrades Two 138 kV Power Lines

    April 3, 2024
    The project is anticipated to boost the regional transmission system and improve service reliability for nearly 5,000 customers of FirstEnergy’s The Illuminating Company.
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    Texas’ Long Road to Reliability

    April 1, 2024
    Texas has emerged from two winter storms in the three years since Uri with no major issues, but recommended reliability plans are still not fully implemented.
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    EstLink 2 Subsea Transmission Repair Faces Problems Due to Fault Location

    March 18, 2024
    There are signs of mechanical damage in the transition joint of the submarine and land cable
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    DOE Office to Look into AI Grid Security, Clean Energy Use Cases

    March 13, 2024
    The DOE’s Office of Critical and Emerging Technologies wants to collect comments and write a public report on how artificial intelligence might help deliver cleaner, more secure...
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    Great River Energy Unlocks Hidden Transmission Capacity

    May 1, 2024
    By installing sensors to perform dynamic line ratings, the utility’s transmission line capacity improved more than 25%, nearly 70% of the time.
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    Winds of Change for St. Lucia’s Electric Grid

    April 30, 2024
    The Caribbean island prepares its grid for a more resilient future by starting with an effective operation and maintenance plan.
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    DOE Introduces Roadmap To Accelerate Connection Of More Clean Energy Projects To The U.S. Electric Grid

    April 23, 2024
    The roadmap sets success targets for interconnection improvement by 2030 and outlines tools to improve the process for connecting more clean energy projects to a reliable grid...
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    DOE Releases Report To Focus On Deployment Of Advanced Grid Solutions

    April 19, 2024
    The report demonstrates the role of commercially available advanced grid solutions in increasing the existing grid’s capacity to support upward of 20–100 GW peak demand growth...