Energy Department awards nearly $2 billion for power-grid upgrades
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The U.S. Department of Energy said Thursday it will spend nearly $2 billion on 31 projects in 26 states aimed at increasing the amount of electricity carried by the nation’s aging power grid.
The department expects the projects to add more than 23 gigawatts of capacity, which it said would be enough to power 16 million homes. The upgrades will include technologies such as sensors that measure weather conditions in real time, allowing utilities to determine how much electricity existing transmission lines can safely carry.
The spending comes as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to reduce blackout risks while electricity demand rises, including demand associated with artificial intelligence. Rather than relying only on construction of new transmission lines, the projects are intended to expand capacity on existing infrastructure through modernization.
Indiana outlets reported that the state will receive roughly $175 million to address a regional transmission bottleneck and upgrade electricity transmission. In Pennsylvania, PPL Electric Utilities is set to receive $71.5 million to modernize an existing high-voltage transmission line, according to 6abc Philadelphia.
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