NV Energy to increase transmission capacity thanks to nearly $2.1M in federal funding
An award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) last week granted NV Energy nearly $2.1 million to work with over the next three years for increasing its transmission capacity and cutting needs for replacements or upgrades to transmission materials.
“NV Energy is proud to be chosen for this award and our teams are already working to implement these funds to be able to leverage additional real-time capacity of transmission lines through sensor and engineering enhancements,” said Josh Langdon, NV Energy vice president of transmission. His company was one of four to receive such funding from DOE. “We know this work will be critical to maintaining reliability, managing costs, and creating clean energy jobs for Nevadans and other communities as we continue our journey toward a net-zero carbon energy supply.”
NV Energy and its fellow recipients were chosen to hasten development of Grid-Enhancing Technologies (GETS) capable of maximizing electricity transmission across existing systems while lowering operating costs and, conceivably, customer costs as well. For this work, NV Energy will research, develop and demonstrate means of broad adoption of GETs tools and systems meant to optimize transmission infrastructure in the nation’s rights of way. Reliability, grid resilience and power transfer capacity all could improve if the project yields results.
Other recipients included Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Pitch Aeronautics Inc. and the University of Connecticut. For NV Energy’s part, its work will see it collaborate with the engineering department of the University of Nevada, Reno.
