Smart Grid Trade Association Applauds Issuance of Grant Awards by Obama
Administration
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Demand Response and Smart
Grid Coalition (DRSG), the trade association for companies that provide smart
grid products and services, applauds the action taken today by the Obama
Administration to award grants to 100 smart grid projects. The awards were
announced today by President Obama during a tour of a smart grid facility in
Arcadia, Florida.
The grants are a result of an allocation of funds to smart grid projects in
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The total amount of funds
to be disbursed by the federal government is $3.4 billion. Each award
recipient will provide matching funding, meaning that today's action
represents over $8 billion of investment in the Smart Grid.
"These grants are a significant event in the development of the smart grid,"
said Dan Delurey, Executive Director of DRSG and Chairman of the Smart Green
Grid Initiative. "Not only is the size of the total investment significant
but also the diversity of the projects that will receive an award. The grants
include investment in transmission and distribution systems as well as in
smart meters, demand response devices, smart thermostats and home information
displays. All of the latter are where the smart grid will touch and engage
the electricity customer, and where many of the benefits of the smart grid
will occur."
"We applaud the Obama Administration for its speed and diligence in
undertaking and completing this effort," said Delurey.
About the DRSG
The DRSG is the trade association for companies that provide products and
services in the areas of demand response and smart grid. Members of the DRSG
Coalition include: Aclara, Advanced Telemetry, Ambient, Amplex, Bridge Energy
Group, CalAmp, Comverge, Conservation Services Group, Corporate Systems
Engineering, CPower, Direct Energy, Echelon, Eka Systems, eMeter, Energy
Capital Partners, Energy Curtailment Specialists, EnergySolve, EnerNOC,
Enfora, Enspiria Solutions, GE, Google, Honeywell, IBM, Ice Energy, Itron, KMC
Controls, Landis+Gyr, LG Electronics, Lutron Electronics, Oracle, PCN
Technology, Sensus, Silver Spring Networks, SmartSynch, Space-Time Insight,
Steffes, Tendril, Trilliant Networks, Universal Powerline Association,
Whirlpool, ZigBee Alliance, and Ziphany. More information is available at
www.drsgcoalition.org.
About the Smart Green Grid Initiative
The Smart Green Grid Initiative (SGGI) has been launched to demonstrate that
the smart grid indeed can be a major positive force in addressing climate
change. Among the issues SGGI will seek to build an understanding of are how
the smart grid facilitates both the use of renewable energy and the increase
of energy efficiency. As part of its educational efforts, SGGI will be an
official UN-approved participant in the 15th Conference of the Parties
(COP-15) in Copenhagen in December 2009. More information about SGGI is
available here www.smartgreengrid.org.
SOURCE Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition
Dan Delurey, +1-202-441-1420
