Utility Dive: DOE selects nearly $2B in projects for grid resilience funding

Utility Dive today covered the news of the third tranche of GRIP awards, which included $49.5 million to our DIGITAL project to streamline and speed grid interconnection. The article says that:

“The projects will boost transmission capacity by more than 7.5 GW, accelerate interconnection for clean energy and spark over $4.2 billion in public and private investment, according to DOE.”

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“Selected projects include: $50 million for GridUnity, which will use cloud computing and other advanced processes to speed up the grid interconnection process around the United States. DOE expects the project will cut interconnection times by more than a year on average.”

Read the full article here.