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🌊We're excited to announce our new collaboration with @RWE_AG Offshore Wind to jointly explore the use of advanced power flow control (#APFC) on long HVAC and HVDC cable circuits to support #offshore generation connections ➡️hubs.ly/Q02lC4d70
We’re excited to welcome Arvind Krishna to Smart Wires as our new Chief of Engineering.
With more than 30 years of engineering leadership experience, Arvind will help us create more capacity from the existing grid.
Welcome to the team, Arvind!
When a transmission line trips, power has to go somewhere else.
This animation shows how advanced power flow control can help redirect flows away from constrained lines and toward available capacity.
That matters for reliability, congestion, and growing demand.
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(2) 🗽 NY: @CentralHudson & @SmartWiresinc unlocked 185 MW of capacity, getting more emission-free energy to consumers without a total substation rebuild.
Adaptability is becoming part of system design.
Not an add-on. A requirement.
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Reliability planning is changing.
Behavior under stress is becoming as important as capacity.
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Targeted control offers a different way to think about scale.
Precision can change cost and timelines.
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Not every constraint is permanent.
Some exist because the system lacks control.
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Committing too early carries its own risk.
Flexibility can help planners respond before locking in outcomes.
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Optionality isn’t just a planning concept.
It affects how systems behave in real operating conditions.
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A lack of control drives conservative planning assumptions.
Controllability changes which assumptions need to be fixed.
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When adaptability becomes a planning principle, it changes real decisions.
Sizing, sequencing, and risk tolerance all start to look different.
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You don’t have to rebuild the grid to improve control.
Advanced power flow control adds flexibility on top of existing infrastructure and helps operators manage flows as conditions change.
Congestion moves.
Load, dispatch, outages, and seasons all change where constraints show up.
Static solutions struggle in a dynamic system. Adaptability matters more every year.
Grid planning is about tradeoffs, not perfect answers.
Cost, timing, risk, and performance all pull in different directions.
Flexibility creates options, and options matter when conditions change.
New transmission matters, but it takes time.
In many cases, the faster opportunity is improving how existing assets are used while long-term projects move forward.
It’s a sequencing problem, not a binary one.
Power flow isn’t fixed.
Advanced power flow control lets operators influence how power moves across the network, especially when constraints matter most.
That kind of controllability is increasingly important on stressed systems.
Grid congestion isn’t theoretical anymore.
Load growth, tighter margins, and limited flexibility are already shaping planning and operations decisions today.
The question many operators are asking now is what can be done in the near term, not just what gets built years from now
We still can’t tell AC power where to go.
Alex Al-Homsi, Lead Customer Solutions Engineer at Smart Wires, explains why and how SmartValve gives operators real control over the grid.
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Amrit Iyer joined Duke Energy, Hitachi & the NC Utilities Commission at the NC State Energy Conference to discuss how SmartValve tech helps ease transmission & interconnection constraints—especially for large data center loads.
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A new report from Mott MacDonald & @TheIET compares the costs & benefits of transmission tech for GB’s future grid.
It highlights the value of solutions like modular SSSC (m-SSSC) for fast, flexible capacity.
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