Archive for November 24th, 2009

Siemens Energy Inc. has been selected by electric utility KCP&L, Kansas City, Mo., to provide a Smart Grid demonstration project showing how the latest technologies will enable the advanced utility of the future. Partial funding for the project is from the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act’s Smart Grid Investment Grant Demonstration Project program. Siemens’ scope of the project includes Siemens Spectrum Powerdistribution management system to coordinate the Midtown substation, Siemens Smart Substation Controller and control of all intelligent distribution field equipment. Details

Beacon Power Corp., Tyngsboro, Mass., a designer and developer of advanced products and services to support more stable, reliable and efficient electricity grid operation, announced on Nov. 24 that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) had awarded it a stimulus grant valued at $24 million for use in the construction of a second 20 MW flywheel energy storage plant, to be located in Chicago. Details