Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, TN
In 2009, joined a consortium of utilities within NEETRAC (the Smart Wire Focus Initiative or SWFI group) and become one of the first utilities to develop the first requirements of the Distributed Series Reactor, the predecessor to the PowerLine Guardian® manufactured by Smart Wires today. Collaborating closely, Smart Wires and TVA successfully completed the installation of 100 PowerLine Guardian units in October of 2012, which is the first field deployment of PowerLine Guardian technology.