Description

The Smart Grid Investment Grant Program provides 50% cost share grants for the installation of technologies deemed smart grid investment, including technologies that allow buildings to engage in demand flexibility or Smart Grid functions. Other eligible investments include metering, control, and other devices, sensors, and software; communications and broadband technologies to support smart grid deployment; technologies and programs to integrate electric vehicles to the grid; devices and software for buildings support demand flexibility and other smart grid functions; operational fiber and wireless broadband communications networks enabling data sharing between distribution system components; and advanced transmission technologies, including dynamic line rating, flow control devices, advanced conductors, and network topology optimization, to increase the operational transfer capacity transmission networks.