The Manassas-based Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative has received $5 million in federal stimulus funds to deploy new technology that will improve the efficiency and reliability of its distribution system, company officials said.
The new digitally based equipment, dubbed “smart grid technology,” will improve the system’s reliability as much as 5 percent and result in the creation of about 15 jobs at the manufacturing facilities that will produce the equipment, said Jim Moxley, NOVEC’s senior vice president for administration, substations and telecommunications.
via NOVEC gets stimulus grant for to upgrade electric grid – washingtonpost.com.
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