I hear it said nearly every day that “the world is changing.” I think that this is accurate in a lot of ways—some good, some not-so-good—but today I want to highlight something that I consider revolutionary in its own right.
Prisma Photonics and Great River Energy installed a grid-monitoring system across 90 miles in northern Minnesota, according to a January 2025 press release. This new state-of-the-art “PrismaPower” technology will be able to provide real-time monitoring and notification of threats to transmission lines, such as wildfires, icing, wind and physical damage, including downed lines.
