ENERGY - How Smart Meters Are Helping Utilities With Voltage Management

Managing voltages to save energy and reduce peak-driven strains on the grid isn’t a new idea. Some of the original volt/VAR optimization (VVO) and conservation voltage reduction (CVR) schemes are decades old. They’ve helped save lots of energy, but they’ve also faced a key limitation: the need to avoid dropping voltages so low that they start causing problems for customers at the edge of the grid. Knowing just how low voltages are getting at tho ...

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