Congratulations to
our friends at CMP, who
were among the 100 recipients of DOE Smart Grid grants announced
today by President Obama. CMP’s $95.9M grant,
which was supported by Senators Collins and Snowe, will be used to install a smart meter
network for all residential, commercial and industrial customers in CMP’s
service territory – approximately 650,000 meters. (For more information on the various
components of a Smart Grid, click here.) CMP’s service territory covers most of
southern and central
Other grant
recipients in New England include Honeywell in Danvers, MA (to provide
automated peak pricing demand response for almost 700 commercial and industrial
customers) and NStar in Norwalk, MA (to expand the system's distribution
automation capabilities by implementing "self-healing" functions on
the grid that will reduce the impact of outages). Like CMP, New Hampshire Electric Cooperative
in Plymouth, Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative in Norwich, VT Transco in Rutland, and several Massachusetts utilities also won grants to deploy advanced metering infrastructure. An award was also granted to ISO-NE to install 30 synchrophasors, which will connect the independent systems operators in New England to
The $3.4 billion
in grant awards are part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, and will be matched by industry funding
for a total public-private investment worth over $8 billion.
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