Smart Grid Live: Big Apple and Garden State Now Sharing Electrical Power

Power grids in New Jersey and New York City are now talking to each other and dispatching energy more efficiently and reliably using breakthrough GE smart grid technology and capital, the company announced today. Three massive “variable frequency transformers” are converting up to 315 megawatts of electricity – enough for up to 300,000 homes – from the power system in New Jersey and feeding it to New York City. Details