Description | The Department of Energy will award approximately $3.3 billion in Smart Grid investment grants to support the manufacturing, purchasing and installation of smart grid devices and related technologies, tools, and techniques for immediate commercial use in electric system and customer-side applications including electric transmission systems, electric distribution systems, building systems, advanced metering, appliances, and equipment. The ultimate aim is to enable Smart Grid functions on the electric system as soon as possible. This FOA includes complete information for prospective applicants, including objectives, eligibity, award sizes, scope and application procedures. |
in Europe the transmitter of the power and the supplier are split now but i think the really democratisation means also that people will become independant and the question is if this already takes ...