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Regulators’ Financial Toolbox: Advanced Transmission and Grid-Enhancing Technologies

2026-06-25 · 14:03 UTC ·NARUC ·1 min read

Brief

The NARUC webinar 'Regulators’ Financial Toolbox: Advanced Transmission and Grid-Enhancing Technologies' (presentation) on 25 June 2026 gave regulators a practical overview of GETs—dynamic line ratings, advanced conductors, and power-flow control devices—and how to assess cost-effectiveness, incorporate them into planning and procurement, and adapt regulatory frameworks to capture flexibility, speed, and system-wide benefits.

Why it matters

NARUC hosted the Financial Toolbox webinar 'Advanced Transmission and Grid-Enhancing Technologies' on 2026-06-25, providing a practical framework to evaluate GETs (dynamic line ratings, advanced conductors, power-flow control devices) against traditional transmission build-outs.

Key details

  • Presenters—experts in transmission planning, finance, regulation, and technology deployment—urged regulators to revise planning, procurement, and cost-allocation rules to explicitly value flexibility, speed, and system-wide benefits so GETs can address near-term reliability, load growth, and electrification in capacity-constrained systems.
  • The webinar offered actionable guidance on modeling and deploying GETs to unlock existing corridor capacity quickly and defer costly transmission projects, with concrete examples of technologies and regulatory levers to integrate into utility investment decisions (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGrYdmOjh5g).
Source evidence

NARUC CPI Regulators’ Financial Toolbox Webinar: Advanced Transmission and Grid-Enhancing Technologies (GETs): Unlocking Capacity and Optimizing the Grid

Join us for our newest webinar in the Financial Toolbox series on Advanced Transmission and Grid-Enhancing Technologies (GETs): Unlocking Capacity and Optimizing the Grid. Key topics will include evaluating the cost-effectiveness of GETs relative to traditional infrastructure, understanding how to incorporate these technologies into planning and procurement processes, and exploring regulatory approaches that appropriately value flexibility, speed, and system-wide benefits.

With insights from experts in transmission planning, finance, regulation, and technology deployment, the webinar will provide a practical overview of how advanced transmission solutions, including Grid-Enhancing Technologies (GETs) such as dynamic line ratings, advanced conductors, and power flow control devices, are reshaping grid investment strategies. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how these technologies can support near-term reliability needs, enable load growth and electrification, and inform regulatory decisions related to transmission planning, cost allocation, and utility investment in an increasingly dynamic and capacity-constrained energy landscape.

Channel: NARUC
Published: 2026-06-25
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGrYdmOjh5g