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DOE OE ARRA Smart Grid Program. Steve Bossart Auburn, AL September 24, 2012. Topics. Background OE ARRA Smart Grid Program OE ARRA Smart Grid Progress Case Studies Life After ARRA Smart Grid ARRA Workforce Development Program (30 min). Background. Benefit of Modernization
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DOE OE ARRA Smart Grid Program Steve Bossart Auburn, AL September 24, 2012
Topics • Background • OE ARRA Smart Grid Program • OE ARRA Smart Grid Progress • Case Studies • Life After ARRA Smart Grid • ARRA Workforce Development Program (30 min)
Benefit of Modernization $1294 – 2028 Billion Overall benefit-to-cost ratio of 2.8 to 6.0 Value Proposition Cost to Modernize • $338-$476B over 20 years • $ 82-90B for transmission • $232-$339B for distribution • $24-46B for consumer • $17-24B per year EPRI, 2011 • Previous Studies • Benefit to Cost Ratio for West Virginia of 5:1 • Benefit to Cost Ratio for San Diego of 6:1 • Benefit to Cost Ratio for EPRI (2004) 4:1-5:1 • $165B Cost • $638 - $802B Benefits EPRI Report: http://www.smartgridinformation.info/pdf/3272_doc_1.pdf
Who are the Beneficiaries? Utilities (What’s in it for my shareholders?) • Outage restoration • Billing • Operations and maintenance • Asset utilization Consumers (What’s in it for me?) • Improved reliability • Manage electric power usage • Energy bill savings (power & transportation) Society (What’s in it for us?) • Reduce emissions • Energy independence
Five Primary Analytical Focus Areas • Operations & Maintenance Savings from Advanced Metering • Meter reading • Service changes • Outage management • Peak Demand and Electricity Consumption • Advanced metering infrastructure • Pricing programs & consumer devices • Direct load control • Distribution System Reliability • Automated & remote operations • Feeder switching Monitoring & health sensors • Energy Efficiency in Distribution Systems • Voltage optimization • Conservation voltage reduction • Line losses • Operational efficiency • Transmission System Operations & Reliability • Application of synchrophasor technology for wide area monitoring, visualization, and control
Qualitative Metrics Observations Preferences Lessons Learned Recommendations Corrective Actions Best Practices Anecdotes Root Cause Compliments Complaints Surveys
Variety of Stakeholders • Electric Service Provider • Decision makers • Operations & maintenance • Planning • Engineering & design • Customer service • Traders • Purchasing • Regulatory support • Billing
Recovery Act – Grid Modernization • Programs created by statute • Energy Infrastructure Security Act 2007: • Smart Grid Investment Grants (Sec. 1306) • Smart Grid Regional Demonstrations (Sec.1304) • Recovery Act Directed Programs: • Workforce Training - $100M • Interconnection-wide Transmission Planning and Resource Analysis - $80M • Interoperability Standards - $12M • Additional OE initiatives • - State & Local Energy Assurance • - State Regulatory Assistance One-time Appropriation, $4.5B in ARRA funds • $685M for demonstration projects • $3.425B for deployment projects Resource Assessment & Transmission Planning Smart Grid Interoperability Standards Other Workforce Training Smart Grid Demos Investment Grants
Smart Grid ARRA Activities American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ($4.5B) • Smart Grid Investment Grants (99 projects) • $3.4 billion Federal; $4.7 billion private sector • > 800 PMUs covering almost 100% of transmission • ~ 8000 distribution automation circuits • > 15 million smart meters • Smart Grid Demonstration Projects (32 projects) • $685 million Federal; $1 billion private sector • 16 storage projects • 16 regional demonstrations
Smart Grid ARRA Activities (continued) Additional ARRA Smart Grid Activities • Interoperability Framework by NIST ($12M) • Transmission Analysis and Planning ($80M) • State Electricity Regulator Assistance ($49M) • State Planning for Smart Grid Resiliency ($52M) • Workforce Development ($100M)
Technology Deployment SGIG/SGDP Areas of Smart Grid Technology Deployment Customer Systems Advance Metering Infrastructure ElectricDistribution Systems Electric Transmission Systems Equipment Manufacturing Customer Systems Customer Systems Customer Systems Customer Systems Customer Systems • Displays • Internet portals • Direct load controls • Programmable thermostats • EV Chargers • Smart meters • Data management • Back office integration • Auto switches • Automated capacitors • Auto voltage regulators • Equipment monitoring • Energy Storage • Wide area monitoring • Synchrophasor Technology • Phasor data concentrators • Dynamic line rating • Energy Storage • Energy devices • Software • Appliances
Key Program Objectives Key Stakeholders: Three Objectives: Advancing the Business Case Utilities NARUC and PUCs Information Derived from 131 ARRA Smart Grid Projects EEI/EPRI Sharing Lessons-Learned and Best Practices NRECA/CRN APPA NASPI Consumer Advocates • Determining R&D Needs • System Engineering • Advanced Analytics
Schedule for Benefits Analysis The DOE Metrics and Benefits work is transitioning into the reporting and analysis of impact metrics. See smartgrid.gov Metrics and Benefits Plan We are here Build Metric Reporting and Analysis Impact Metric Reporting and Analysis
SGIG Consumer Behavior Studies:Study Population Statistics • Total of ~145,000 customers are expected to “participate” as treatment or control customers • Plan to collect key demographic information on all treatment and control customers (ideally), subject to survey response rates • Assuming 3 years worth of hourly interval usage meter data (1 year pre-treatment and 2 years post-treatment); this represents 3.9 billion data observations • To put our SGIG analysis and evaluation effort into perspective: • ComEd’s CAP study included ~8,500 participants and ran for 12 months (June 2010 - May 2011) • CA Statewide Pricing Pilot included ~2,500 participants and ran for 18 months (July 2002 – December 2003)
SGIG Consumer Behavior Studies: Overview of Research Topics Given the diversity of studies being undertaken as part of the SGIG program, we have a unique opportunity to evaluate issues in several topical areas: Research Topical Areas • Customer Acceptance: What motivates customers to accept time-based rate programs? • Customer Retention: What motivates customers to remain on time-based rate programs? • Customer Response: Will customers respond, and if so by how much will they respond, to time-based rate programs? • Role of enabling technology and information/education: Will customers respond, and if so by how much will they respond, to control and/or information technology and/or education alone?
SGIG Deployment Status 15.5 million residential and commercial smart meters (11% US coverage ) Distribution automation equipment on about 8,000 circuits (Roughly 5% US coverage) Over 800 networked phasor measurement units (nearly 100% US coverage)
Customers with Smart Meters Enrolled in Pricing Programs in SGIG
M2M Communications Agricultural Demand Response Program Saves Electricity in California • Key Activities • M2M Communications of Boise, Idaho, has developed a two-way, web-to-wireless controller for irrigation pumps. The controller is part of an irrigation load control system that includes sensors, smart meters, and other monitoring equipment. • M2M created the Peak Energy Agricultural Rewards (PEAR) program, a demand response program marketed to agricultural customers of California’s investor owned utilities. • Aims and Strategies • As part of the PEAR program, farmers can earn cash incentives and avoid peak demand charges. • Water consumption and soil moisture can be monitored from a web portal, enabling farmers to make informed decisions about possible participation in peak demand events. • Farmers can schedule irrigation pump start up/shut off, saving water, time, and manpower, and improving overall efficiency. • Results and Benefits • DOE ARRA funds greatly contributed to M2M’s final R&D push to get the controller to market. • PG&E called four peak pricing events in 2011; PEAR program participation reduced summer peak demand by an average of 18 MW per event. Reducing Peak Electric Demand and Increasing Efficiency of Farm Operations An irrigation pump connected to and controlled by M2M’s web-to-wireless controller Facts & Figures Total project budget: $4,342,340 Federal share: $2,171,170 Devices installed: 300 Total summer peak demand reduction in 2011: 72 MW
Florida Power and Light (FPL) Smart Grid Solutions Strengthen Electric Reliability and Customer Services in Florida • Key Activities • 3 million smart meters being installed with pilot programs testing customer systems and time-based rate programs. • Thousands of substation devices for automating switches, capacitors, transformers, and regulators and equipment health monitors at substations. • 45 phasor measurement units and supporting transmission line monitors. • Aims and Strategies • Improve reliability by monitoring key transmission and distribution equipment for preventative maintenance and avoidance of outages. • Make operational efficiency improvements by reducing truck rolls for service calls by automating meter functions. • Engaging customers through information exchange via web portals and pilot programs with customer systems and time-based rates • Results and Benefits • In January, 2012, monitor detected an out-of-tolerance high voltage bushing and customers served by this transformer temporarily switched to another one. Meanwhile, the faulty bushing replaced, preventing an outage that would have affected several thousand customers. • In September, 2011, an alarm signaled a potential problem with a degraded phase on a capacitance voltage transformer. Field engineers located the damaged transformer, removed the affected transmission line section from service, and replaced the defective device thus preventing an extended outage and that could have affected several thousand customers. One of SGIG’s largest and most comprehensive projects Smart transformers report on health and status to FPL control centers Facts & Figures Total Project Budget: $578,000,000 Federal Share: $ 200,000,000 FPL Facts: 4.5 million customers 70,000 miles of power lines 16 power plants
CenterPoint Energy Technologies Improve Operating Efficiency and Reliability • Key Activities • Installing 2.2 million smart meters in Houston, Texas and surrounding areas • Deploying distribution automation technologies in critical high profile infrastructure areas • Project Goals • Capture significant efficiencies in CenterPoint’s operations through smart meter capabilities, such as remote meter reading, automated outage detection and notification, and electronic completion of field service orders • Enable customers to better control electricity use through access to detailed consumption data provided by smart meters • Increase reliability for nationally significant critical infrastructure facilities in CenterPoint’s service territory • Benefits Achieved • As of January 2012, CenterPoint avoided 2.3 million truck rolls as a result of electronic off-cycle meter reads, and remote disconnects and reconnects • Retail electricity providers offering new products and services to consumers, including pre-pay billing options, time-of-use rates, and comparative analysis of electricity use • During January 2012, more than 3,900 outage cases were created entirely from automatic meter notifications Enabling New Consumer Products Smart meters provide consumers with vast amounts of new data. Facts & Figures Total Project Budget: $639 million Federal Share: $200 million Smart Meters: 2.2 million Distribution Automation: 226 distribution circuits and 29 substations to be upgraded
Orange and Rockland Utilities Subsidiary of ConEdison and sub-recipient on their SGIG Project A Model-Centric Approach to Smarter Electric Distribution • Key Activities • Distribution system automation including switches, reclosers, SCADA, voltage and VAR controls, and communications backbone systems. • Integrated System Model (ISM) processes data from GIS, EMS, OMS, and Weather Services to assess real-time conditions and sends control signals for Coordination Control and Automated Restoration. • Aims and Strategies • Uses open architecture design to minimize reliance on particular vendors and enable “plug&play” expansion. • ISM updated daily to validate data and ensure accurate controls for operating re-closers to reduce frequency and duration of outages and volt/VAR controls, to minimize line losses, optimize voltage levels for conservation voltage reductions, enable phase rebalancing for improved power quality, and improve power factors to reduce reactive power requirements. • Results and Benefits • ISM approach enables lower cost smart grid deployment. • Faster restoration following outages during major storm events can save up to $175,000/hour in costs for truck rolls and repair crews. • Engineering analysis on 13 circuits shows phase imbalances on certain circuits were improved from about 59% to about 15%. Power factor on certain transformers were increased from about 93% to about 99%. Re-closer Control Screen • Facts & Figures • Distribution Automation: • 5 circuits • 2 substations • Covering 10,000 mostly residential customers • Automation Equipment: • Re-closers • Voltage control devices • Switched capacitor banks
Oklahoma Gas & Electric Reducing peak demand in Oklahoma Customer-Enabling Technologies Used by OG&E • Key Activities • OG&E’s “Positive Energy Smart Grid Project” is installing 750,000 smart meters system-wide and distribution automation equipment on 40% of the circuits serving homes, offices, farms, and factories. • Aims and Strategies • Defer construction of two 165 MW power plants by lowering peak demand using demand response programs that involve time-based rates and customer enabling technologies. • Improve service and lower costs by operating automated capacitors and distribution switches. • Results and Benefits • Pilot demand response project of 3,000 customers during the summer of 2010 • 98% of participating customers saved money on their bills • Measureable demand reductions from customers participating in critical peak and variable peak pricing and who use the web portal, programmable communicating thermostats, and in-home displays • Expect to lower operations and maintenance costs and improve service reliability and power quality. In-Home Display Facts & Figures Total Project Budget: $293,201,332 Federal Share: $130,000,000 Customers Served: 766,866 Service Area: 30,000 square miles in Oklahoma and Western Arkansas Generation Capacity: 6,600 MW
Sioux Valley Energy (SVE) • Key Activities • System wide deployment of smart meters and associated communications and meter data management systems • Critical Peak Pricing (CPP) Pilot in the summer of 2011: • 13 critical peak events called • Day-ahead notice of a four hour event lasting from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. • CPP is 50 cents per kilowatt-hour and less than 7 cents for electricity use at all other times compared to standard rates which are greater than 9 cents per kilowatt-hour. • Aims and Strategies • Lower peak demands to reduce power supply costs. • Provide tools to help customers manage their costs and bills. • Provide operational efficiencies from using smart meter functions such as tamper detection, remote connect and disconnect, and outage management. • Collect and store data on customer voltage levels for future analysis and systems development for voltage optimization and conservation voltage reductions. • Results and Benefits • In the CPP pilot in the summer of 2011 achieved on peak demand reductions ranging from 5%-25% for residential customers and levels somewhat lower than that for farms and rural residential customers. • Achieved high level of customer acceptance when 90% said they were likely to continue on the CPP rate and about half of those said they were very likely to continue. The EmPOWER Project Lowers Peak Demands and Electric Bills in Minnesota and South Dakota SVE’s web portal has proven to be a valuable tool for customers interested in monitoring their consumption and searching for ways to lower their bills. Facts & Figures Total Project Budget: $8,032,736 Federal Share: $ 4,016,368 SVE Facts: 21,000 customers 7 counties
Talquin Electric Cooperative (TEC) Transforming electricity delivery in Florida AMI saves money for TEC and their customers • Key Activities • TEC’s “SmartGrid Program” deploys AMI to about 56,000 customers and upgrades 46 of 86 circuits with advanced capacitors for voltage control and outage management. • Aims and Strategies • Solve problems with misreporting of monthly consumption by replacing a “customer-read” billing system. • Reduce the number of truck rolls per year for addressing non-payment problems (9,000) and manual service connections (5,500). • Improve outage management with more precise identification of outage locations and faster restoration of services. • Results and Benefits • Reduced truck rolls in 2011 by 8,800 for non-payment problems and saved about $350,000 at about $40 per truck roll. • Can save an additional $200,000 per year from reduced truck rolls for manual service connections. • Expecting to reduce outage durations from more precise pinpointing of faults and dispatching of repair crews to exact locations without guesswork. Technician changes out analog meter with a smart meter Facts & Figures Total Project Budget: $16,200,000 Federal Share: $ 8,100,000 Customers Served: 57,000 Service Area: 2,600 square miles spanning 4 counties in northern Florida
eEnergy Vermont A State-Wide Strategy for Smart Grid Development Utilities working together to modernize the grid. • Key Activities • Smart metering roll-out for outage management and time-based rates for demand response. • Distribution system automation including switches, reclosers, SCADA, and communications backbone systems. • Consumer behavior studies by Vermont Electric Cooperative (VEC)and Central Vermont Public Service to assess customer acceptance, response, and retention. • Aims and Strategies • A collaborative effort involving all of the state’s electric distribution companies to modernize Vermont’s electric grid and foster economic growth as part of the state’s “eState Initiative” with telecommunications and health care. • Results and Benefits • VEC’s outage management system has improved SAIFI by 50% and CAIDI by 40% since installed in 2008. • VEC’s smart metering roll-out and outage management system has a 5 year payback period from operational saving alone. • VEC received POWER Magazine’s first “Smart Grid Award” in August 2011 for its pioneering efforts in outage management. • Restoration of the grid from Tropical storm Irene occurred quicker and with greater customer awareness of repair schedules due to smart meters, web portals, and more effective outage management. Vermont Electric Cooperative’s Smart Grid Operations Center Facts & Figures Total Project Budget: $137,857,302 Federal Share: $69,928,650 Distribution Automation: 47 circuits and substations Smart meters: 311,380 Time-Based Rates: 1,500 customers targeted
Woodruff Electric Cooperative Smart Meter Investments Bring Savings to Customers • Key Activities • “Woodruff Electric Advanced Metering Infrastructure Project” is installing 14,450 smart meters and supporting communication technologies. • Aims and Strategies • Service disconnects/reconnects and system monitoring can be done remotely, decreasing the need to dispatch crews to the field. • Operational efficiencies enable Woodruff to maintain lower rates and redeploy staff to more proactive duties, such as preventive system maintenance. • Project brings needed capital investment and customer savings to the economically distressed region. • Results and Benefits • 3,000 truck rolls were avoided between March and July of 2011, saving the utility and customers $600,000. • Efficiencies enabled Woodruff to decrease after-hours reconnection fee from $115 to $50. • Investment in smart grid technologies is creating new high-paying engineering and information technology jobs at the utility. • Installation phase of the project was completed in January 2011. Woodruff was the first SGIG project to complete installation. Benefiting Rural Economies Installing smart meters Facts & Figures Total Project Budget: $5,016,000 Federal Share: $2,357,520 Accounts Served: 17,000 Smart Meters Installed: 14,450
City of Naperville Empowering Consumers in Illinois Consumer programs for smart grid-savvy customers • Key Activities • Naperville’s “Smart Grid Initiative” completes a decade long efforts to automate the city’s entire electric distribution grid. • Deploys smart meters city wide to all customers. • Provides consumer education programs to engage public participation in shaping smart grid policies and programs. • Aims and Strategies • Strengthen reliability and reduce the frequency and duration of power outages. • Empower consumers to manage their own power consumption and costs to enhance energy efficiency, reduce peak, and reduce power purchase costs from wholesale suppliers. • Results and Benefits • Distribution automation investments have improved System Average Interruption Duration Index each years since 1991 by from 15% to 55%. • O&M costs from dispatching repair crews reduced by about 40%. • Enacted Naperville Smart Grid Consumer Bill of Rights. • Implemented Smart Grid Ambassadors Program Residents provide feedback on Naperville’s smart grid policies and programs. Facts & Figures Total Project Budget: $21,988,220 Federal Share: $10,994,110 Distribution Automation: Remaining 6 of 117 circuits Smart meters: 57,000 Time-based Rates: 1,500 customers targeted
Electric Power Board of Chattanooga Improved System Restoration • Key Activities • EPB’s Smart Grid Project covers 600 miles throughout 9 counties of Georgia and Tennessee affecting 170,000 customers. • Installing automated feeder switches, automated circuits, advanced SCADA, AMI, in-home displays, and communications infrastructure. • Aims and Strategies • Electric Distribution System Automation – installing automated feeder switches and sensor equipment for distribution circuits that can be used to detect faults and automatically switch to reroute power and restore all other customers. • Communications Infrastructure – includes fiber optic systems that enable two-way communication between the meters, substations, and control office which provides EPB with expanded capabilities and functionality to optimize energy delivery, system reliability, and customer service options. • Results and Benefits • During the April 2011 storms, three fourths of EPB customers – 129,000 residences and businesses – lost power. • Smart switches avoided thousands of hours of outage time due to the devices and automation already installed • EPB was able to avoid sending repair crews out 250 times Integrating Smart Grid Applications Smart switches help ensure grid reliability and power quality Facts & Figures Total Project Budget: $226,707,562 Federal Share: $111,567,606 Equipment Deployed: Smart Switches: 1,500 AMI:170,000 Direct LC Devices: 5,000 HEMS: 5,000 Thermostats: 5,000 Automated Circuits:164 DRAFT
Western Electricity Coordinating Council Assuring Reliability in the Western Interconnection Transmission System Modernization • Key Activities • WECC’s “Western Interconnection Syncrophasor Program” is installing more than 300 phasor measurement units (PMUs) and 60 phasor data concentrators (PDCs) across the Western Interconnection. • Aims and Strategies • Provide grid operators with more frequent and time-synchronized system information. • Better system visibility will help system operators avoid large-scale regional outages, better utilize existing system capacity, and enable greater utilization of intermittent renewable generation resources. • Results and Benefits • 19 organizations are participating in the project, providing 100% coverage for the Western Interconnection. • Real-time information and automated controls being deployed will enable grid operators to allow an additional 100 MW of operational capacity on the California-Oregon Intertie (COI). Similar system benefits are possible in other parts of the system. Phasor Measurement Unit Facts & Figures Total Project Budget: $107,780,000 Federal Share: $53,890,000 Project Area: Western Interconnection, 1.8 million square miles Project Team: 19 utility organizations
Life After ARRA Smart Grid Program Build and maintain momentum • Make business case • Identify, allocate, and quantify benefits • Identify and quantify costs • Address technical issues • Address regulatory issues • Address customers concerns
Information Resources Smart Grid Information Clearinghouse Smartgrid.gov • Smart grid project summaries (with focus on non-ARRA projects), use cases, and business cases for the U.S. and internationally • >200 & >50 smart grid projects in the U.S. and oversees; >1,000 smart grid-related documents and multimedia (use cases, c/b analyses, business cases, legislation & regulation, standards, and technologies) • ARRA smart grid project summaries and other Federal program activities • Reporting of ARRA SGIG & SGDP projects (progress, metrics and benefits, consumer behavior studies) and provision of analysis results to the public
Workforce Development in US Electric Power Sector Steve Bossart Southeast Distribution Apparatus School Auburn, AL September 24, 2012
Background • Aging Workforce • Retrain Workers for Smart Grid Functions • Reduction in Replacement Pipeline • Decline in university programs for power engineering (PE) • Lack of popular interest (among U.S.-born engineers) in PE careers • Limited funding available for post-doc research • New faculty stream has dried up • Utilities have streamlined training for a fully competitive marketplace • Federal Support: • Curriculum development • Awareness campaign to revitalize undergraduate / graduate pipeline • Sustained research opportunities Source: Center for Energy Workforce Development
ARRA FOA 152: Refilling the Pipeline Workforce Training for Electric Power Sector $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ Post-Doc Research & Faculty Development Curriculum Development (STEPS) Training/Education Program Execution (Topics A&B) Outreach/ Awareness List of Award Recipients for Topics A&B List of Award Recipients for STEPS - Strategic Training & Education in Power Systems Outreach and Recruitment Scope Train the Trainers
Workforce Development Training Projects Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA Incremental Systems Corporation Issaquah, WA Michigan Department of Energy, Labor, & Economic Growth Lansing, MI Washington State University Pullman, WA Northern Michigan University Marquette, MI Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Green Bay, WI Critical Intelligence Inc Idaho Falls, ID Bismarck State College Bismarck, ND Centralia Community College Centralia, WA Council for Adult and Experiential Learning Chicago, IL Workforce Development Institute Inc. Albany, NY Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL Regents of the University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN Syracuse University Syracuse, NY National Grid USA Service Company Inc. Waltham, MA Oregon Institute of Technology Klamath Falls, OR Cuyahoga Community College Cleveland, OH Key Training Corporation Meridian, ID Saint Paul College Saint Paul, MN University Enterprises Inc. Sacramento, CA Community College of Rhode Island Warwick, RI Iowa Valley Community College District Marshalltown, IA Salt Lake Community College (2) Salt Lake City, UT Consolidated Edison Company New York, NY Ivy Tech Indianapolis, IN Ameren Services Company St. Louis, MO Pepco Holdings Inc. Washington, DC Ohio State University Research Foundation Columbus, OH Pratt Community College Pratt, KS University of Colorado-Boulder Boulder, CO Princeton Energy Resources International LLC Rockville, MD Navajo Tribal Utility Authority Fort Defiance, AZ National Electrical Manufacturers Association Arlington, VA St. Louis Community College St. Louis, MO Glendale Community College Glendale, CA Georgia Tech Res. Corporation Atlanta, GA Duke Energy Business Services LLC Charlotte, NC Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC Dallas, TX North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC Austin Community College Austin, TX Savannah Technical College Savannah, GA Clemson University Electric Power Clemson, SC Pacific Center for Advanced Technology Training Honolulu, HI University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN Mississippi Gulf Coast Community Perkinston, MS University of Hawaii-Manoa Honolulu, HI Florida Power & Light Company Miami, FL University of Houston College of Technology Houston, TX Community Colleges Industry/Utilities Other Programs Universities General Electric Company Atlanta, GA University of Kentucky Research Foundation Lexington, KY
Distribution of Awards Community Colleges Industry/Utilities Other Programs Universities
Workforce Training for Electric Power Sector Curriculum development and deployment for technicians, linemen, engineers and managers across the electric power sector workforce. 98% of projects end by Q4FY13