If your firm wanted to apply for the first phase of the smart grid investment grant program, well, you best get cracking — the deadline is today, and this week a flurry of utilities have been announcing their intentions to apply for some of the $3.4 billion in funding. Just because the companies are announcing their applications, doesn’t mean they will be awarded funds, and many more utilities and vendors have likely applied than have made any kind of formal announcement. But check out our working cheat sheet below the jump for a running tally of firms that are seeking government smart grid funds (we’ll update the chart periodically, currently 34 and counting).
What’s at stake in this first round: grants for smaller smart grid projects, ranging from $300,000 to $20 million (expected to get 40 percent of the funding) and larger projects, ranging from $20 million to $200 million (supposed to get 60 percent of the funds), which will need to provide matching funds. Across the board there’s cash for projects ranging from modifying buildings to purchasing software to manufacturing smart appliances to implementing dynamic pricing schemes — as long as they enable two-way flow of both electric power and data between power companies and consumers.
via CHEAT SHEET: Smart Grid Firms Lining Up for DOE Cash.
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