Proposed system provide distribution automation, communications and substation upgrades to an AMI project. Includes backend software and systems integration.
Consolidated Edison, Inc., Columbia University, CALM Energy, and other energy experts filed for smart grid stimulus funds from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Con Edison leads the team requesting approximately $46 million to help fund smart grid demonstration projects in New York and New Jersey.
The proposal requests funding for test projects in several suburban communities east of Cleveland served by the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company (CEI); the York, Pa., area served by Metropolitan Edison Company (Met-Ed); and a number of communities throughout the Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L) service area. Thus the customers that would be benefited would be in OH, PA and NJ.
In April 2009, General Electric, Florida Power and Light, Cisco Systems and Silver Springs Networks just announced that the four companies will team up to build a smart grid to serve the city of Miami. The companies involved have applied for federal stimulus funding to offset some of the $200 million investment.
The funds will be used to develop an “end-to-end” smart grid deployment that will include approximately 200,000 customers in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
In addition to NPPD, the utilities collaborating in the stimulus funding request include the public power districts of Burt County, Cedar-Knox, Cornhusker, Custer, Dawson, Elkhorn Rural, KBR Rural, Loup River, Northeast Nebraska, Twin Valleys and the cities of Beatrice, Superior, and Wayne.
The Omaha Public Power District also announced on Friday that is applying for $7.8 million in federal stimulus funds for a project utilizing Smart Grid technology. The project would serve the Omaha metro area and 17 surrounding rural communities served by OPPD.
Utilities -Idaho Falls (Idaho Falls Power), Northwest Montana (Flathead Electric Cooperative, Inc., Southwest Montana (NorthWestern Energy), Milton-Freewater (City of Milton-Freewater), Portland (Bonneville Power Administration), Salem (Portland General Electric, Airway Heights (Inland Power & Light Co.), Ellensburg (City of Ellensburg), Fox Island (Peninsula Light Co.), Kennewick (Benton PUD), Pullman (Avista Utilities), University of Washington (Seattle City Light), Western Wyoming (Lower Valley Energy)
The applicants for the funds are The Tennessee Valley Public Power Association, the Tennessee Valley Authority and participating local electric utilities.
The utilities filed the application with the Department of Energy's Smart Grid Investment Grant Program on behalf of the state's 20 electric utilities; Efficiency Vermont, the state's energy efficiency utility; and Vermont Electric Power Co., the state's transmission utility.
