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FPL CEO: We Haven’t Seen A Dime of the Smart Grid Stimulus

Posted by Derek on March 12, 2010
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Oh, the endless issues with the smart grid stimulus funds — the close to $4 billion in federal grants to over 130 smart grid projects. With that level of funding there were bound to be some hurdles. Here’s another: speed. On Thursday morning at the Wall Street Journal’s Eco:nomics conference, the CEO of Florida power company FPL Group, Lewis Hay III, expressed his concern that “not a dime” of the smart grid stimulus funds had been allocated to the winners to his knowledge.

via FPL CEO: We Haven’t Seen A Dime of the Smart Grid Stimulus.

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