- New technology can collect data from substations that do not have their own monitoring capability.
- GridSense claims two U.S. utilities have signed up to use its LineIQ to monitor 15kV and 69kV feeder lines near where they enter substations, but it did not identify them.
- The technology has its own solar power and uses radio capability already in the substations, Silver Spring in one case and Sensus in the other.
From the article: "GridSense, an Acorn Energy company, has announced that two major utilities will use its LineIQ overhead line monitoring solution to cost-effectively collect intelligence from previously unmonitored substations. ...