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Under the Recovery Act, the Energy Department awarded $3.5 billion in funds to the electricity industry, including OG&E, to help catalyze the adoption of smart grid tools, technologies and techniques such as demand response that are designed to increase the electric grid’s flexibility, reliability, efficiency, affordability, and resiliency. Understanding lessons learned from these projects is vital.

The Voices of Experience | Insights on Smart Grid Customer Engagement guide builds on the knowledge shared during a series of DOE-sponsored regional peer-to-peer workshops during which utilities discussed compelling smart grid topics and issues. The guide offers practical advice and lessons learned, and showcases creative, high-impact approaches.

Browse through our slideshow featuring unique elements of a new research center focused on boosting clean energy technologies.

Remember Smart Grid Week? Here's a follow-up where we answer some of your questions about the series.

New Presidential Memorandum will speed the modernization of the nation's electric grid.

New lithium-ion storage facility in Salem, Oregon is helping to make our power grid smarter and more reliable.

Next up in our Smart Grid Week series -- improving electric grid technologies to adequately prepare for emergencies with power outages.

Next up in our Smart Grid Week series -- how grid modernization research and development projects directly benefit you.

Since the start of the new year, I have spoken at more than a dozen events about ways in which investment in the electric power grid is delivering significant benefits to consumers, businesses, and communities across the nation.