With fanfare and news releases in both Washingtons, the Obama Administration on Tuesday announced it will invest $88.8 million worth of federal stimulus money in this state to develop “smart grid” technologies to use electricity more efficiently and cut customers' power bills.
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., described it as an effort to “infuse intelligence into our electrical grid” at a time when the Northwest's power transmission system “is starting to show its age.”
via Washington state will get big chunk of “smart grid” money.
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