The Long Island Power Authority on Friday said it has applied to the U.S. Department of Energy for $119 million in stimulus funds it intends to use to support various smart grid projects.
LIPA has said before it wants to increase its smart grid platform, technology that links digital communications infrastructure with power delivery. Smart grids have to ability to do things like monitor energy on a house-by-house basis as well as remotely control output as a way to reduce energy consumption, resulting in lower emissions. Smart grids also make it easier to add alternative energy projects like wind power to the power grid.
LIPA said it has asked the DOE for $49.6 million to support a Dynamic Reactive Support System Project, a voltage manager that has the ability to reduce blackouts, and $69.5 million to build LIPA Smart Grid Communications Backbone, a fiber-optic network.
The $119 million will not cover LIPA’s plans to develop a Smart Grid Corridor Project on Route 110 in Melville. That project, developed with partners Stony Brook University and Farmingdale State College, would create a central campus to focus on marrying smart grid technology with alternative energy. LIPA will file a separate application later this month for stimulus dollars to support that project.
Separately, Long Island Power Authority chief executive Kevin Law was just appointed chairman of the Stony Brook Council, an advisory board for Stony Brook University. Law, a Stony Brook alum, was appointed to the post by Gov. David Paterson.
via The Technofile » LIPA asks for $119 million in stimulus dollars.
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