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MIT finds billions in potential grid savings
Research by associate dean Christopher Knittel, senior postdoctoral associate Juan Ramon Senga, and postdoctoral associate Chaitanya Vuppanapalli has identified technologies that could save the United States as much as $1.34 billion annually in electricity system costs by making better use of existing transmission lines. The study examined how improvements to existing transmission infrastructure could increase electricity delivery without relying entirely on expensive and time-consuming construction of new lines.