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Article: NSTAR Awarded $10 Million in Federal Stimulus Funds to Enhance Electric Reliability.
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- Energy Weekly News
- Article date:
- November 13, 2009
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The U.S. Department of Energy today awarded NSTAR Electric $10 million in federal stimulus funding to advance the roll-out of the company's electric grid "self-healing" project. By utilizing GE's smart grid technologies, NSTAR will further-improve service reliability by reducing the extent, frequency and duration of customer outages. NSTAR already has one of the largest automated systems in the country and this project will serve to modernize more of the grid in its service territory.
"These stimulus dollars from the Department of Energy provide us with the opportunity to build upon NSTAR's previous Smart Grid investments so we can continue to deliver ...