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“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

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.”

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