“We describe several ways the capacity of an existing high voltage AC transmission line can be increased and show that sometimes the most cost-effective strategy is to convert the line to high voltage DC.”
“If you’re going to operate within a single market like Texas, with very limited access to the Eastern Interconnect, then you really have to think about what those reserve margins should be.”
“ERCOT actually didn’t drop the ball, believe it or not. In order to maintain grid stability, they needed to do these outages to prevent a cascading situation where we would have weeks before they were coming online.”