Beacon Power Corporation (Nasdaq: BCON), a leading provider of advanced products and services to support a more stable, reliable and efficient electricity grid, today announced that it plans to hire approximately 50 new employees this year at its Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, headquarters, as it ramps up production of its grid-scale flywheel energy storage systems.
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If everyone in Los Angeles put solar panels on their roofs, plugged electric cars into their garages and used smart power-meters today, something interesting would happen.
The electric grid would collapse.
When Paul Kalv learned the city was awarded a multimillion-dollar federal grant to improve its electric utility, he shed a tear of joy.
When Kalv, the city’s utility director, later found out that the city’s planned improvements were lauded as some of best in the country, it served as confirmation of what he already knew – the city’s utility was headed in the right direction.
via Leesburg wins recognition for ’smart-grid’ initiative — OrlandoSentinel.com.
People Power Company, an energy efficiency company providing residential monitoring and control systems, won support from the federal government last month in the form of a Small Business Innovation Research-Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR-STTR) grant announced by the Department of Energy on November 24, 2009.
GridPoint, Inc., an established leader in smart grid solutions, announced today that it will provide home energy management, load management and electric vehicle management software solutions for KCP&L’s Green Impact Zone SmartGrid Demonstration in Kansas City, Mo. The project is the recipient of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding. GridPoint worked with the utility to draft the proposal, which is part of $620 million allocated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in support of smart grid demonstration projects.
via GridPoint to Provide Solutions for KCP&L’s Smart Grid Demonstration Project.
Dallas regulated power line company Oncor won $3.5 million in federal funding on Tuesday for a smart grid project.
The award comes weeks after Oncor lost the competition for a major stimulus grant for advanced meters.
Oncor won Tuesday's grant for its $7.3 million Dynamic Line Rating Project. Surely the project is sexier than the name or the Department of Energy's description:
via TEXAS ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT Blog | The Dallas Morning News.
Avista (NYSE: AVA) will lead a smart grid demonstration project that will create the first “smart community” in the Pacific Northwest. Matching funds for the $38 million project are part of a U.S. Department of Energy grant for a larger $178 million regional project which is administered by Battelle.
Avista will team up with several regional entities for the Pullman, Wash., project. Participants include the City of Pullman, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Washington State University, Itron, Hewlett Packard and Spirae. Avista's portion of the matching funds will be $12.9 million.
via Avista to Lead $38 Million Smart Grid Project in Pullman.
Less than a month after it handed out $3.4 billion in stimulus grants to utilities working toward a cleaner, more efficient electrical grid, the U.S. Department of Energy says it is doling out another $620 million to projects working on demonstration-scale Smart Grid technologies. Today, it named 32 recipients working on every aspect of the grid, including smart meters, transmission equipment, storage devices and energy monitoring systems.
via Smart Grid handouts keep rolling: DOE earmarks $620M for demo projects | VentureBeat.
Baltimore Gas& Electric (BG&E), armed with a $200 million Smart Grid stimulus grant, took its case before the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) and outlined its plans to lower operating costs, help the environment and offer incentives to reduce demand.
But consumer advocates have consistently spoken out against the BG&E plan as too much too fast.
via Smart Grid: BG&E Takes Its Smart Grid Case to Regulators.
Sacramento State, along with partners, received a $127.5 million federal stimulus grant to improve Sacramento’s electric grid as part of the Smart Sacramento project first introduced in September.
Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento, a supporter of the Smart Sacramento project, announced Oct. 27 the grant given to fund the local smart grid energy project, a joint venture among the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Sac State, California Department of General Services and Los Rios Community College District.
The grant was made available by Matsui and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
via Sac State receives grant to improve electric grid – News.
Saying it could lead to more efficient use of energy and thus cut operating costs, the California Department of General Services is partnering with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) to tap a federal grant to design, run, and manage an urban “smart grid” utility system with different types, and sizes, of clients.
The $127.5 million program is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The State of California is partnering with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) in Sacramento’s Smart Grid Stimulus federal grant program. The $127.5 million program is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009. DGS is the lead agency managing the program for state office buildings, and the program is designed to explore how to design, run, and manage an urban “smart grid” utility system with different types, and sizes, of clients.
The previous month witnessed the continuing momentum of smart meter and smart grid development in the United States and the UK. Concerns were also raised advising caution against speeding up massive installations in light of security concerns or other technological shortcomings.
The Obama administration reaffirmed its commitment to development of smart energy with the announcement of 100 grants worth $3.4 billion on October 27, money that came from the Economic Recovery Act passed in February of this year. CenterPoint Energy, based in Houston, received the largest grant worth $200 million. The energy giant will put the money towards a $639 million project that will see 2.2 million smart meters and sensors installed.
via Grant recipients, wind farms, and concerns highlight the month.
Progress Energy has been awarded $200 million in federal stimulus money to create a smarter grid with a more efficient flow of electricity.
Progress Energy’s Smart Grid grant application was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy this week for award negotiations as part of the federal stimulus package. The $200 million grant application proposes to use grant funds, combined with $320 million in matching dollars from Progress Energy, for several system and equipment upgrades in the Carolinas and Florida.
via Progress Energy gets $200 million for Smart Grid | citizen-times.com | Asheville Citizen-Times.
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree announced this morning that a federal Recovery Act grant of $96 million will be coming to Maine to help Central Maine Power provide “smart meters” for all 600,000 of its customers. Funding for the “Advanced Metering Infrastructure Project” will be matched by CMP, for a total project cost of nearly $200 million.
