Smart Grid Stimulus Funds: Close to 50 Firms and Rising
Last week we started a cheat sheet on all of the companies that we’ve heard have applied or are working on applications for some of the $3.4 billion in DOE stimulus funding for the smart grid. These are companies that have told us directly, sent out press releases or been reported by other media to be seeking some of the smart grid stimulus funds. We know it’s not complete as these are only the companies that are publicly discussing their applications. But already that list is up to close to 50 companies, including ones we’ve just added like Southern Company, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric. Here’s the updated list:
| Company | Type of Firm | Amount Requested | Project | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliant Energy Corp (owns Wisconsin Power and Light Company) | Utility | $45 million + | NA | Madison, WI |
| Ameren Illinois Utilities | Utility | $45 million | NA | St Louis, MI |
| Ameren UE | Utility | $140 million | NA | St Louis, MI |
| American Transmission Company | Utility | $21.75 million | Power grid monitoring | Waukesha, WI |
| Arizona Public Service | Utility | NA | NA | Phoenix, AZ |
| Avista | Energy Co. | $20 million | Upgrade electric distribution system | Spokane, WA |
| Baltimore Gas and Electric | Utility | $200 million | NA | Baltimore, MD |
| Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative | Utility | $18.8 million | General smart grid buildout. | Bastrop, Texas |
| The Building Owners and Managers Association of Chicago (BOMA/Chicago) | Building office trade group. | $92.7 million | For the first commercial office smart grid building program. | Chicago, Il |
| Burbank Water and Power | Utility | $20 | NA | Burbank, CA |
| CenterPoint Energy | Utility | $200 million | Smart meter deployment and equipment to manage power outages | Houston, TX |
| Cleveland Utilities | Utility | NA | NA | Cleveland, TN |
| Commonwealth Edison | Utility | $175 million | Smart meters | Chicago, IL |
| Consolidated Edison | Utility | Undisclosed | Smart grid | New York, NY |
| Dominion Virginia Power | Utility | $200 million | Smart meters | Richmond, VA |
| Duke Energy, NC, SC | Utility | $14 million | Smart meters | NC, SC |
| Duke Energy, OH, IN, KY | Utility | $200 million | Smart meters | OH, IN< KY |
| First Energy Corp | Utility | $57 million | NA | Akron, OH |
| Florida Power & Light | Utility | NA (Seeking funds, not official) | Smart meters | Miami, FL |
| Glendale Water and Power | Utility | $20 million | Smart meters. | Glendale, CA |
| Kentucky Municipal Power Association | Utility | NA | NA | Frankfort, KY |
| Keys Energy (Corrected from Florida Keys Electric Coop) | Utility | NA | NA | Key West, FL |
| Lakeland Electric | Utility | $20 million | Smart meters | Lakeland, FL |
| Lincoln Electric System | Utility | $33.5 million | Smart meters | Lincoln, NE |
| Long Island Power Authority | Utility | $119 million | Voltage management, fiberoptics for smart grid monitoring. | Long Island, NY |
| Madison Gas and Electric | Utility | $5.5 million | Consumer-facing smart grid applications. | Madison, WI |
| National Grid | Utility | $200 million | End to end smart grid | U.K. |
| Northeast Utilities | Utility | $126.5 million | NA | Berlin, CT |
| NSTAR Electric and Gas | Utility | $28M million | NA | New Bedford, MA |
| NV Energy | Utility | $138 million | Smart meter deployment and network build out | Las Vegas, NV |
| Oncor | Utility | $317 million | Smart meter deployment and network build out | Dallas, TX |
| Pacific Gas & Electric | Utility | $42.5 million | Plans to apply for smart grid devices, energy storage | San Francisco, CA |
| PECO | Utility | $200 million | NA | Philadelphia, PA |
| Pepco | Utility | $142 million | NA | Washington DC |
| Pepco’s Atlantic City Electric | Utility | $19 million | NA | Mays Landing NJ |
| Pepco’s Delmarva Power | Utility | $93 million | NA | Wilmington, DE |
| PPL Corp | Energy company | $19 million | Smart meters, monitoring system | Allentown, PA |
| Progress Energy | Utility | $200 million | Buildout smart grid in Carolinas and Florida territories | Raleigh, NC |
| PSE&G | Energy company | $76 million | NA | Newark NJ |
| San Diego Gas & Electric | Utility | $30 million project | Smart grid network buildout. | San Diego, CA |
| Southern California Edison, in conjunction with WECC | Utility | $50 million, and $60 million for Demo grants | $50 million for a synchrophasor project, and $60 million for wind energy storage project and a regional smart grid demo. | Los Angeles, CA |
| Southern Company | Energy company | $197 million, and $165 million | $197M for smart meters and $165M for transmission and distribution | Atlanta, GA |
| Tacoma Power | Utility | $32 million | Smart meters. | Tacoma City, WA |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | Utility | $200 million | NA | Knoxville, TN |
| Texas New Mexico Power Company | Utility | $49.1 million | Smart meters. | Fort Worth, TX |
| United Illuminating Co. | Utility | $37.5 million | Smart meters and network build out | New Haven, CT |
| Vermont Electric Power, Efficiency Vermont, plus 20 Vermont utilities | Utilities | $66 million | Statewide smart grid. | Vermont |
| We Energies | Utility | $3.5 million | Smart meters. | Milwaukee, WI |
| Westfield Gas & Electric | Utility | $5 million | Smart meters. | Westfield, MA |
| Westar Energy | Utility | $20 million | Smart meters |
Topeka, KS |
| Wisconsin Power and Light Company | Utility | $ |
Smart meters, demand response, distribution automation | Madison, WI |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | Utility | $18 million | Smart grid | Greenbay, WI |
Data pulled from press releases, SmartGridStimulus.com, Greentech Media, San Francisco Business Times, WisBusiness.com, TimesUnion.com, San Jose Mercury News, BizJournals, JSOnline, Lincoln Journal Star.
What does NA mean against some of the companies in the above list?
Thank you for all informations !
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I suspect the location is inaccurate (at least for some). While National Grid is based in the UK, they supply electricity and gas to customers in the Northeast and that is where the stimulus $$$ will go…
@LibranLover, NA, means not available, so basically I didn’t have that information. @Randy, the location column is where the utility’s headquarters are, not the specification location of the smart grid project. If there’s any inaccuracies, let me know and I can fix them — it’s a work in progress. I’ve updated it over 10 times in the last week with additional info.
The listing for Lincoln Electric System is Lincoln, NE, not Eureka, MT
List not accurate.
Wisc. Power and Light is a sub of Alliant — they asked for $10 million — def not $210. I noticed 5 or 6 other errors.
Ester, take another look at the $210 for Wisc., the 2 was crossed out last week and it reads $10. I kept the cross out in there to show it had been updated. If its too difficult to read I’ll fix it.
Thanks J Loos, I’ll change that one.
Is there a list (even if not comprehensive)that states all the players that have won contracts so far?
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