New e-book highlights how Wi-SUN FAN (Field Area Networks) technology makes cities and IoT smart. The e-book features insights from the Alliance and member companies Cisco, Itron, Hexing, Landis+Gyr, OKI, Renesas, Silicon Labs and Texas Instruments, addressing:

1. Where do they see Wi-SUN FAN applications in the next five years?
2. What new application opportunities do they envision for Wi-SUN technology?           
3. How will 5G impact Wi-SUN FAN developments and adoption?

The analysis focused on a representative sample of network upgrades in the MISO and SPP regions. Even with conservative assumptions, ICF found significant system-wide benefits in two-thirds of the upgrades evaluated — benefits that other users of the shared system are receiving at little to no cost.

The grid of the future will need much higher levels of transmission, energy storage and programs that encourage customers to shift the times when they use power to periods when it’s most abundant and affordable.

The Illinois legislature gave final approval Monday to a bill that sets the state on a path to 100% carbon-free power by 2045.

A Pacific Gas & Electric troubleshooter spent nearly two hours in federal court Monday fielding questions about whether the beleaguered utility could have turned off the electricity sooner to a power line now suspected of sparking the monstrous Dixie Fire two months ago.

National Grid has erected its first T-pylon in Somerset, Southwest England, demonstrating a new design for an electricity pylon.

Mon Power, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. said this week that it is launching a sustainability initiative to recycle and repurpose utility poles in West Virginia.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced and priced a $500 million offering of 10-year maturity green bonds today, its first offering of a sustainability-focused financial instrument.

The Task Force invites comments on agenda topics within the following broad topic area: identifying barriers that inhibit planning and development of more efficient and effective transmission necessary to achieve federal and state policy goals.