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Committee advances bill encouraging advanced transmission technologies to ease grid congestion
Summary
The committee passed first substitute House Bill 212 to encourage utilities and the Public Utilities Commission to evaluate and, where cost-effective, deploy software and hardware solutions (advanced transmission technologies) to increase capacity of existing transmission lines.
Representative Watkins said House Bill 212, Advanced Transmission Technologies, would encourage utilities to evaluate a suite of software and hardware tools that increase the amount of electricity existing transmission lines can carry, which the sponsor said reduces congestion and wildfire risk while saving ratepayers…
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