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The power grid of the future is a platform that delivers reliable, affordable, and clean electricity to American consumers where they want it, when they want it, and how they want it. To jump start the modernization of our nation’s aging energy infrastructure, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 invested $4.5 billion in the electric sector — matched by private funding to reach a total of about $9.5 billion— so that Americans could start experiencing the benefits of the future grid sooner. Below is a fact sheet that describes the investment's major benefits to the nation and highlights six of the more than 330 Recovery Act projects that were successfully managed by the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability.