Southern California Edison wants A123 Systems to build the world’s biggest lithium-ion grid storage battery, and it’s asking the Department of Energy for $25 million to help.
That’s just one of the new technologies that the utility wants to test in two projects worth an estimated $120 million that Paul De Martini, Southern California Edison’s vice president of advanced technologies, outlined Tuesday.
The other, a roughly $70 million regional smart grid integration project, would include smart appliances, home energy management systems, distribution grid and wireless communications – including WiMax and proprietary 900-megahertz technologies – from General Electric, De Martini said.
IBM and Cisco may also play a part in the project, for which the utility is seeking about $35 million from the DOE.
Both grant requests are aimed at the $615 million smart grid demonstration grant program created in June, he said. That’s the smaller of two programs that have a combined $3.9 billion available to help build smart grid projects (see DOE Issues Rules for $3.9B in Smart Grid Stimulus Grants).
The bigger, $3.4 billion pool for commercial-scale projects has already seen the first application deadline pass (see Green Light post).
via Greentech Media: SoCal Edison Wants A123’s Biggest Grid Battery Ever.
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