If your firm wanted to apply for the first phase of the smart grid investment grant program, well, you best get cracking — the deadline is today, and this week a flurry of utilities have been announcing their intentions to apply for some of the $3.4 billion in funding. Just because the companies are announcing their applications, doesn’t mean they will be awarded funds, and many more utilities and vendors have likely applied than have made any kind of formal announcement. But check out our working cheat sheet below the jump for a running tally of firms that are seeking government smart grid funds (we’ll update the chart periodically, currently 49 and counting).
What’s at stake in this first round: grants for smaller smart grid projects, ranging from $300,000 to $20 million (expected to get 40 percent of the funding) and larger projects, ranging from $20 million to $200 million (supposed to get 60 percent of the funds), which will need to provide matching funds. Across the board there’s cash for projects ranging from modifying buildings to purchasing software to manufacturing smart appliances to implementing dynamic pricing schemes — as long as they enable two-way flow of both electric power and data between power companies and consumers.
| 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 to 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 | Eureka, MT |
| 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 |
| 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.
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