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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) provides the U.S. Department of Energy with $4.5 billion to modernize the electric power grid and implement Title XIII of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. This section provides descriptions and background information for several of the key smart grid programs, studies and activities funded by the Recovery Act.
Project
Information

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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided funding for smart grid projects across the United States. The location, information and data for each project are provided in this section.
Deployment
Status
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Program Asset Investments >

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Technology Deployment Analysis >

The U.S. Department of Energy is responsible for tracking investments made through the Smart Grid Investment Grant program (SGIG) and Smart Grid Demonstration program (SGDP). The status and characteristics of technology deployed is reported in this section.
Program
Impacts
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The U.S. Department of Energy is analyzing the impacts of the Recovery Act smart grid projects on the electric system and assessing costs, benefits, lessons learned, and best practices. This analysis is an opportunity to inform decision makers about the relative merits of alternative smart grid technologies, tools, and techniques and provide a stronger empirical basis for investments and business cases.
Consumer
Behavior
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U.S. Department of Energy is working with several Smart Grid Investment Grant award recipients who are conducting special studies to examine acceptance, retention and response of consumers involved in time-based rate programs that include advanced metering infrastructure and customer systems such as in-home displays and programmable communicating thermostats. These studies are an opportunity to advance the electricity industry’s understanding of consumer behavior through the application of statistically rigorous experimental methods.
Recipient
Reporting

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U.S. Department of Energy requires recipients of funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to report quarterly data. Recipients access reporting databases and guidance documents in this section. Only recipients who have received a user name and password can access the databases.

Technology Deployment Analysis

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is examining the information that is provided by the recipients of Recovery Act Smart Grid funding. Each project required to gather and report information on assets, programs, and systems quarterly to DOE. The deployment data are called “build metrics.” Build metrics track program spending and measure progress towards modernizing the electric grid.

Build Metrics: The monetary investments, electricity infrastructure assets, policies and programs, and jobs that are applied in the Recovery Act funded smart grid projects.

Build metrics data is compiled from reports to DOE from project recipients participating in the SGIG and SGDP programs, and includes both SGIG funds and private, cost-shared funds provided by the recipients. Recipients are required to report build-metrics data quarterly and for the data elemetns specified in their individual metrics and benefits reporting plans.

Technology deployment analysis of the build metrics address the following key questions:

What was purchased, built, and deployed?
How much did it cost?
Where was it installed?
How much of the system was affected?
What does it do?
How many jobs were created/retained?

Technology deployment analysis of build metrics are grouped according to the type of system in which the assets used:

Advanced Metering Infrastructure
Customer Systems
Electric Distribution Systems
Electric Transmission Systems

DOE will provide reports based on the analyses performed in 2012 and 2013. Reports will be published here as they become available.

Recovery Act Smart Grid Programs

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