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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.

Electric Transmission System

Electric transmission systems carry large amounts of power at high voltages from generators to substations. Transmission systems must be kept highly reliable to prevent blackouts and ensure robust energy markets. Synchrophasor technology has emerged as key enabler for improving transmission reliability and operations. Phasor measurement units (PMUs), phasor data concentrators (PDCs), wide area communications networks, and advanced transmission applications are building blocks of a smarter and more reliable transmission system. This chart shows number of PMUs being deployed as part of the SGIG program and the approximate extent of coverage in the United States resulting from SGIG funding.

Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) Installed and Operational

Deployed as of March 31, 2013

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
2010	0	0	0	29
2011	65	104	129	209
2012	282	408	509	729
2013	801	0	0	0
2014	0	0	0	0
2015	0	0	0	0

** Number of entities reported: 11
Updated on June 18, 2013View All Data

The table below includes SGIG program transmission system expenditures.

SGIG Program Electric Transmission Asset Expenditures

Program Data for March 31st, 2013

Deployed as of March 31, 2013
Updated June 18, 2013

Data cumulative through March 31st, 2013
Number of projects reporting: 186

Electric Transmission System Assets	Quantity *	Incurred Cost	Number of Entities Reporting **
PMUs	801	$58,178,354	11
Phasor data concentrators	109	$9,013,730	11
Dynamic rating systems	0	$0	0
IT hardware, systems, and applications that enable transmission functionalities		$69,141,991	29
Advanced applications		$32,722,296	13
Other transmission related costs		$190,709,608	21
Total transmission installed cost		$359,765,980	21

* In some circumstances, costs are incurred before devices are installed resulting in a reported cost where the quantity is zero.

* All dollar figures are the total cost, which is the sum of the federal investment and cost share of the recipient (the recipient cost share must be at least 50% of the total overall project cost).

** In some cases the number of entities reporting is greater than the total number of projects funded by the Recovery Act because some projects have multiple sub-projects that report data. View list of sub-projects.

** Projects only report data on devices they plan to install. Each project installs equipment that best supports their individual goals. Therefore, the number of projects reporting is expected to vary by equipment category. The individual project reporting pages show what equipment that project is installing.

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Electric Transmission System

Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) Installed and Operational

Deployed as of March 31, 2013

Program Data for March 31st, 2013

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