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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) provides the U.S. Department of Energy with $4.5 billion to modernize the electric power grid and implement Title XIII of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. This section provides descriptions and background information for several of the key smart grid programs, studies and activities funded by the Recovery Act.
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided funding for smart grid projects across the United States. The location, information and data for each project are provided in this section.

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The U.S. Department of Energy is responsible for tracking investments made through the Smart Grid Investment Grant program (SGIG) and Smart Grid Demonstration program (SGDP). The status and characteristics of technology deployed is reported in this section.
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The U.S. Department of Energy is analyzing the impacts of the Recovery Act smart grid projects on the electric system and assessing costs, benefits, lessons learned, and best practices. This analysis is an opportunity to inform decision makers about the relative merits of alternative smart grid technologies, tools, and techniques and provide a stronger empirical basis for investments and business cases.
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U.S. Department of Energy is working with several Smart Grid Investment Grant award recipients who are conducting special studies to examine acceptance, retention and response of consumers involved in time-based rate programs that include advanced metering infrastructure and customer systems such as in-home displays and programmable communicating thermostats. These studies are an opportunity to advance the electricity industry’s understanding of consumer behavior through the application of statistically rigorous experimental methods.
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U.S. Department of Energy requires recipients of funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to report quarterly data. Recipients access reporting databases and guidance documents in this section. Only recipients who have received a user name and password can access the databases.

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Electric Distribution System

Installing advanced switches, sensors, and communication equipment are expected to improve reliability (e.g., shorten the duration of outages), enhance system efficiencies, and reduce operations and maintenance costs. This chart shows the number of automated feeder switches installed as part of the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) program, and conveys the approximate extent of coverage in the United States resulting from SGIG funding.

Automated Feeder Switches Installed and Operational

Deployed as of June 30, 2012

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
2010	0	0	184	1,680
2011	2,459	3,248	4,085	5,010
2012	5,523	6,102	29	0
2013	0	0	0	0
2014	0	0	0	0
2015	0	0	0	0

** Number of projects reported: 48
Updated on September 26, 2012View All Data

The table below includes SGIG program distribution system expenditures.

SGIG Program Electric Distribution Asset Expenditures

Program Data for September 30th, 2012

Deployed as of June 30, 2012
Updated September 26, 2012

Data cumulative through September 30th, 2012
Number of projects reporting: 186

Electric Distribution Automation Assets	Quantity *	Incurred Cost	Number of projects reporting **
Automated feeder switches	6,102	$334,448,071	47
Automated capacitors	9,720	$86,685,041	44
Automated regulators	5,937	$24,148,027	32
Fault current limiter	0	$928,967	4
Feeder monitors	3,234	$98,842,253	29
Substation monitor	14,814	$104,262,472	18
Distribution automation/Substation communication networks		$113,090,468	52
Distribution management systems		$145,154,801	41
IT hardware, systems, and applications that enable distribution functionalities		$11,895,007	30
Other electric distribution automation related costs		$126,976,929	72
Total electric distribution automation cost		$1,046,432,035	72

Electric Distribution Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Assets	Quantity *	Incurred Cost	Number of projects reporting **
Stationary electricity and energy storage devices	181	$3,579,602	3
EV charging stations	220	$2,948,857	10
DER interconnection and communication equipment	5	$38,850	5
Other DER related costs		$2,170,122	32
Total electric DER cost		$8,737,430	32

* In some circumstances, costs are incurred before devices are installed resulting in a reported cost where the quantity is zero.

* All dollar figures are the total cost, which is the sum of the federal investment and cost share of the recipient (the recipient cost share must be at least 50% of the total overall project cost).

** Projects only report data on devices they plan to install. Each project installs equipment that best supports their individual goals. Therefore, the number of projects reporting is expected to vary by equipment category. The individual project reporting pages show what equipment that project is installing.

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Electric Distribution System

Automated Feeder Switches Installed and Operational

Deployed as of June 30, 2012

Program Data for September 30th, 2012

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