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Article: PPL Electric Utilities Awarded Smart Grid Grant.
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- Energy Weekly News
- Article date:
- November 13, 2009
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A federal grant for a PPL Electric Utilities project to deploy "smart grid" technology to strengthen reliability, save energy and improve electric service for 60,000 Harrisburg area customers was approved Tuesday (10/27) by the U.S. Department of Energy.
The company will receive a $19 million piece of the more than $3.4 billion in stimulus funding made available by the federal government to update the nation's power grid. Only one in four companies competing for grant applications was successful.
"Competition for these grants was very stiff," said David G. DeCampli, president of PPL Electric Utilities. "We think the strength of our team and scope of our ...