Backed by more than $47 million in stimulus funds, the Department of Energy announced funding for eight projects in seven states to “help accelerate the development and implementation of a modernized and secure electrical grid, a critical piece in delivering renewable energy to American consumers and ensuring an effective, reliable and efficient electricity system across the country.” The money will go to projects that are already underway in order to help test and verify demonstration-scale smart grid technologies that can then be duplicated in other locations around the country. The eight projects and related funding are listed below the jump. More detailed descriptions of the projects can be found at the link mentioned above.
1. American Superconductor Corporation – Development and In-Grid Demonstration of a Transmission Voltage SuperLimiterTM Fault Current Limiter
(Westborough, MA) – $4,832,972
2. American Superconductor Corporation – High Temperature Superconductor Transmission Cable System for Installation in the Long Island Power Grid (LIPA 2)
(Westborough, MA) – $7,584,120
3. City of Fort Collins – Research Development and Demonstration of Peak Load Reduction on Distribution Feeders Using Distributed Energy Resources for the City of Fort Collins
(Fort Collins, CO) – $4,841,647
4. Consolidated Edison Company of New York – Interoperability of Demand Response Resources Demonstration in New York
(New York City, NY) – $5,631,110
5. Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) – The Perfect Power Prototype for the Illinois Institute of Technology
(Chicago, IL) – $5,405,583
6. University of Hawaii at Manoa-Hawaii Natural Energy Institute – A Dispatchable Distribution Feeder for Peak Load Reduction and Wind Farming
(Honolulu, HI) – $5,548,585
7. University of Nevada – Las Vegas – Dramatic Residential Demand Reduction in the Desert Southwest
(Las Vegas, NV) – $5,724,709
8. Zenergy Power Inc. – Design, Test & Demonstration of Saturable Reactor High Temperature Superconducting Fault Current Limiters
(San Francisco, CA) – $8,081,973
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