The pulse of the grid
A decade after the
largest blackout in the country’s history, smart grid devices known as phasor
measurement units (PMUs), or synchrophasors, are opening the eyes of grid
operators everywhere. But, at the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA),
engineers are taking the technology to new levels. The agency now has the
largest, most sophisticated synchrophasor network in North America, and it is
the only network in the West designed to take split-second automated control
actions when it detects a problem on the grid. >> Read more about the future of power grid operations
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