As written up on the cover of The Electrical Worker (August) — the IBEW’s official publication:
The boxes, called “discrete series reactors,” promised to do something very hard in a simple, durable way: steer electrical power away from overloaded transmission lines to underutilized parts of the grid. If there is a traffic jam in a city, drivers will take other routes. Electrons, though, always take the path of least resistance, which often means some wires in transmission grids are maxed out long before the grid as a whole is.
The result is the average grid operates at about 60 percent of capacity. Previous attempts to get electrons into less busy wires had been large, expensive and used lots of energy. The DSR gets all the energy it needs from the line it is clamped to and, autonomously or by remote control, can increase the impedance on a line, like squeezing a garden hose with a clamp.
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