Article: U.S. Department of Energy Selects American Transmission Co. Applications for Smart Grid Grants.

The U.S. Department of Energy notified American Transmission Co. today that two ATC applications for smart grid investment grants totaling $12.7 million were selected for award negotiations. The grants to ATC are among 100 being made nationwide - totaling $3.4 billion - by the DOE to advance smart grid technologies.

One of ATC's applications was for $1.3 million in funding to extend its use of phasor measurement units - a new technology for monitoring the status of the grid in real time. Earlier this year, ATC installed a limited number of the PMU devices on its system and evaluated their performance. The PMUs are considered one of the most important measuring ...

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