Now Playing: DOE Announces Guidelines for $3.9 Billion in Smart Grid Grants.
June 26, 2009 -
$615 million for smart grid demonstration projects will help develop
and implement smart grid technologies across the country.
Source: Clean Edge News
The Economic Recovery Plan’s Bold Move To Repower America »
The Obama economic recovery plan makes a bold investment in the modernization of our electricity infrastructure, in order to transform an often-overwhelmed patchwork of balkanized regional networks into a national “smart grid” based on Internet-like technology. Without a smart grid, the goal of independence from fossil fuels is impossible to reach. Repower America, Al Gore’s campaign to have America use 100% renewable electricity in ten years, explains that a national smart grid “will save money, increase reliability and protect consumers from outages, and make possible a clean electricity system.”
source: WonkRoom/THINK PROGRESS