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Irrigation Load Control Package at Idaho Power Company

Smart Grid Savings and Grid Integration of Renewables in Idaho

Idaho Power Company (IPC) serves customers in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon. IPC is vertically-integrated, manages power generation, transmission, distribution, and demand-side resources. Faced with grid modernization challenges from new wind power capacity, rising summer peak demands, and aging electricity delivery infrastructure, IPC’s SGIG project covers all aspects of its electric operations.

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Providing Grid Flexibility in Wyoming and Montana

Powder River Energy Corporation (PRECorp) is an electric cooperative serving approximately 11,900 customers in a 16,200 square-mile area of rural Wyoming and Montana. Severe weather conditions in PRECorp’s rural and remote service territory present unique challenges in providing reliable electric service to PRECorp’s customers.

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Michigan Utility Modernizes Electricity Delivery

With $83.8 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Smart Grid Investment Grant program (SGIG), Detroit-based DTE Energy (DTE) has been able to significantly increase the scope of its smart grid technology deployment. By July 2012, DTE has installed 725,000 smart meters as well asdistribution automation devices at 11 substations and on 55 circuits.

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SGIG Accelerates Grid Modernization in Minnesota

Headquartered in Duluth, Minnesota Power serves approximately 144,000 customers and manages almost 9,000 miles of power lines and over 160 substations. Grid modernization is a top corporate priority and is driven by needs to upgrade the company’s electric distribution and metering systems, load control programs, and customer engagement strategies for improved reliability and energy efficiency, lower costs, and more certain peak demand reductions.

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Smart Grid Solutions Strengthen Electric Reliability and Customer Services in Florida

Florida Power & Light (FPL) says maintaining reliable service while keeping rates affordable is “Job One.” While pursuing its mission, FPL is implementing “Energy Smart Florida,” which is the largest and one of the most comprehensive of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Smart Grid Investment Grant projects.