Federal and State Filings
- Letter to FERC on Grid Enhancing Technologies from 13 organizations representing end-use customers, transmission customers, and the public interest. September 20, 2023
- Rehearing Request to FERC on Order 2023, August 28, 2023
- “Response: Designation of National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors,” U.S. Department of Energy, July 31, 2023
- “Post-Workshop Comments of the WATT Coalition”, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Docket No. AD23-3-000, May 15, 2023.
- “Comments of the WATT Coalition on the Draft National Transmission Needs Study,” U.S. Department of Energy, April 20, 2023.
- “Comments of the WATT Coalition on the December 27, 2022 New York Utilities Coordinated Grid Planning Process Proposal,” State of New York Public Service Commission, Case 20-E-0197, March 27, 2023
- “Comments of the WATT Coalition” Transmission Planning and Cost Management, Docket Nos. AD22-8-000 and AD21-15-000, March 23, 2023
- “WATT Coalition Comments Regarding Actions Taken to Implement Transmission Planning Pursuant to the Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth & Community Benefit Act; Case 20-E-0197,” New York Public Service Commission, February 28, 2023
- “Comments of the WATT Coalition in response to the February 1, 2023 presentation on Flow Control Devices in Planning from Steve Leovy, WPPI,” MISO Planning Subcommittee, February 22, 2023
- “WATT Coalition Reply Comments,” Improvements to Generator Interconnection Procedures and Agreements NOPR, Docket RM22-14-000, December 14, 2022
- “WATT Coalition Comments: Energy Improvement in Rural and Remote Areas Program Request for Information,” Department of Energy, November 28, 2022
- “Comments to New England States Transmission Initiative Request for Information,” October 28, 2022
- “WATT and ACP Comments: Grid Resilience Innovation Programs,” Department of Energy, October 14, 2022.
- “WATT Comments,” Improvements to Generator Interconnection Procedures and Agreements NOPR, Docket RM22-14-000, October 13, 2022.
- “Reply Comments of the WATT Coalition,” Building for the Future Through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation and Generator Interconnection NOPR, Docket No. RM21-17-000, September 19, 2022
- “WATT Coalition Comments,” Building for the Future Through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation and Generator Interconnection NOPR, Docket No. RM21-17-000, August 17, 2022
- “Comments of the WATT Coalition,” Public Service Commission of Maryland investigation, designated as PC56, into funding available under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, August 1, 2022.
- “Comments of the WATT Coalition, American Clean Power Association, Advanced Energy Economy and Solar Energy Industries Association,” Implementation of Dynamic Line Ratings, Docket No. AD-22-5-000, April 25, 2022
- “WATT Coalition Supplemental Comments,” Building for the Future through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation and Generator Interconnection, Docket No. RM21-17-000, March 28, 2022
- “WATT Coalition Comments Urging Inclusion of Grid Enhancing Technologies to Reduce Cost and Increase Pace of Offshore Wind Integration to Meet NY CLCPA Goals“, March 25, 2022
- “WATT Coalition Comments,” Investigation Into the Use of Dynamic Line Ratings for Transmission Lines in Texas, PUCT Project No. 52771, December 30, 2021
- “WATT Coalition Reply Comments,” Building for the Future through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation and Generator Interconnection, FERC Docket No. RM21-17-000, November 30, 2021
- “WATT Coalition Comments,” Building for the Future through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation and Generator Interconnection, FERC Docket No. RM21-17-000, October 12, 2021
- “Comments of the WATT Coalition,” Managing Line Ratings, FERC Docket No. RM20-16, March 22, 2021.
- Letter from 13 US Senators to FERC on incentives for Grid-Enhancing Technologies, August 2020.
- WATT/AEE filing to FERC in incentives Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, June 2020.
- “Post-Technical Conference Comments of the WATT Coalition,” Grid-Enhancing Technologies, FERC Docket No. AD19-19, February 14, 2020.
- “Post-Technical Conference of the WATT Coalition,” Managing Transmission Line Ratings, FERC Docket No. AD19-15, November 1, 2019.
- “Joint Reply Comments of the Grid Advancement Coalition,” Inquiry Regarding the Commission’s Electric Transmission Incentives Policy, FERC Docket No. PL19-3, August 26, 2019.
- “WATT Coalition Initial Comments,” Inquiry Regarding the Commission’s Transmission Electric Incentives Policy, FERC Docket No. PL19-3, June 26, 2019.
- Letter to FERC from the WATT Coalition, AWEA, ACORE, and Americans for a Clean Energy Grid regarding incentives for advanced transmission technologies, November 26, 2018.
- WATT Coalition Comments to PJM on Resilience, February 9, 2018.
Industry Publications
- T. Bruce Tsuchida, Linquan Bai, and Jadon M. Grove, The Brattle Group, “Building a Better Grid: How Grid-Enhancing Technologies Complement Transmission Buildouts”, April 20, 2023.
- WATT Presentation
- Department of Energy, “Grid Enhancing Technologies: A Case Study of Ratepayer Impact,” February 2022.
- T. Bruce Tsuchida, Stephanie Ross, and Adam Bigelow, The Brattle Group, “Unlocking the Queue With Grid-Enhancing Technologies,” February 1, 2021.
- “Canada’s Leading Approach: Embracing Transmission Technologies to Accelerate the Energy Transition,” Webinar, October 13, 2020.
- U.S. Department of Energy, “Dynamic Line Rating,” Report to Congress, June 2019.
- Rob Gramlich and T. Bruce Tsuchida, “Improving Transmission Operation with Advanced Technologies: A Review of Deployment Experience and Analysis of Incentives,” June 24, 2019.
- Ampacimon, “Wind Integration Use Case,” 2019.
- Pablo A. Ruiz and Jay Caspary, “SPP Transmission Topology Optimization Pilot – Efficient Congestion Management and Overload Mitigation Through System Reconfigurations,” March 2019.
- S. Murphy, N. Dumitriu, N. Pinney, J. Marmillo. B. Mehraban, “Simulating the Economic Impact of a Dynamic Line Rating Project in a Regional Transmission Operator (RTO) Environment,” CIGRE US National Committee 2018 Grid of the Future Symposium.
- B. Mehraban, D. Bowman, N. Pinney, J. Marmillo., “An Analysis on the Economic Impacts of Dynamic Line Ratings on a Congested Transmission Line in Southwest Power Pool,” CIGRE US National Committee 2018 Grid of the Future Symposium.
- Soheila Karimia, Petr Musilek, Andrew M. Knight, “Dynamic Thermal Rating of Transmission Lines: A Review,” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018.
- Pablo A. Ruiz, Doug Bowman, Kathryn Dial, Xiao Li, Ryan Schoppe, Zachary Sharp, Jason Terhune, Bruce Tsuchida, “Transmission Topology Optimization: Applications to Enhance System Reliability and Resilience and to Increase Market and Planning Efficiency,” June 2018.
- “Bringing the Grid to Life,” White Paper by Rob Gramlich, March 2018.
- Rob Gramlich, “Grid operations technologies protected customers from the bomb cyclone,” February 14, 2018, Utility Dive.
- “Improvement of Transmission Line Ampacity Utilization by Weather Based Dynamic Line Ratings,” B. Bhattarai, J. Gentle, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, (Volume: PP, Issue: 99), January 2018.
- Marmillo, N. Pinney, B. Mehraban, S. Murphy, “A Non-Contact Sensing Approach for the Measurement of Overhead Conductor Parameters and Dynamic Line Ratings,” CIGRE US National Committee 2017 Grid of the Future Symposium.
- Doug Bowman and Jack McCall, “Reducing Contingency-based Windfarm Curtailments through use of Transmission Capacity Forecasting,” CIGRE US National Committee 2017 Grid of the Future Symposium.
- Doug Bowman and Jack McCall, “Reducing Contingency-based Windfarm Curtailments through use of Transmission Capacity Forecasting,” presentation at CIGRE US National Committee 2017 Grid of the Future Symposium, Cleveland, Ohio, October 23-25, 2017.
- Rob Gramlich, “Using More of the Grid We’ve Got,” North American Wind Power, September, 2017, Volume 14, Issue 8, page 20.
- Bhattarai, Bishnu P., Gentle, Jake P., Hill, Porter, McJunkin, Tim Myers, Kurt S. Abbound, Alex, Renwick, Rodger Hengst, David, Transmission Line Ampacity Improvements of AltaLink Wind Plant Overhead Tie-Lines Using Weather-Based Dynamic Line Rating, July 1, 2017.
- Bourgeois, Raphael and Lambin, Jean-Jacques, “Dynamic Ratings Increase Efficiency,” T&D World, 4/4/2017.
- National Grid Electricity Transmission, “Transmission Network Topology Optimisation,” Network Innovation Allowance 2016/2017 Annual Summary, p. 14.
- Pablo A. Ruiz, “Transmission Topology Optimization Software – Operations and Market Applications and Case Studies,” ERCOT Emerging Technologies Working Group Meeting, Austin, TX, December 2016.
- Pablo A. Ruiz, Michael Caramanis, Evgeniy Goldis, Xiaoguang Li, Keyurbhai Patel, Russ Philbrick, Alex Rudkevich, Richard Tabors, Bruce Tsuchida, “Transmission Topology Optimization – Simulation of Impacts in PJM Day-Ahead Markets,” FERC Technical Conference on Increasing Market Efficiency through Improved software, Docket AD10-12-007, Washington, DC, June 2016.
- Verga, N. Pinney, and J. Marmillo, “Incorporating Dynamic Line Ratings to Alleviate Transmission Congestion, Increase Wind Resource Utilization, and Improve Power Market Efficiency,” CIGRE US National Committee 2016 Grid of the Future Symposium.
- J.C. McCall, T. Goodwin, “Dynamic Line Rating as a Means to Enhance Transmission Grid Resilience,” CIGRE US National Committee 2015 Grid of the Future Symposium.
- US Department of Energy, Dynamic Line Rating Systems for Transmission Lines, SGDP DLR Topical Report (energy.gov), April, 2014.
- T. Bruce Tsuchida, Xiaoguang Li, Pablo A. Ruiz, “Reducing Renewable Curtailments Through Flexible Operation,” North American Wind Power, Feb 2014, pp. 10-12.
- Jake Gentle, Warren Parsons, Michael West, Catherine Meibner, Philip Anderson, “Increasing Transmission Capacities By Dynamic Line Rating Based on CFD.”
- Jake Gentle, “Weather-based Dynamic Line Rating (DLR) with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) + Forecasting
