The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has announced that $10 million in grants will go to six companies to help improve electric grid reliability and resiliency. One of those companies is REA Energy.
The projects that will be funded by the Grid Resilience Grants will help prevent power outages and provide more reliability for emergency services, businesses and residents. DEP Secretary Jessica Shirley said that the grants will provide important funding that will bring more energy jobs, investment to the communities, and a more resilient and reliable electric grid to Pennsylvanians. Activities in this round of the PA GRG grant include installing 100 pieces of cutting-edge smart grid equipment to provide protection and control via enhanced system monitoring to detect and prevent power outages.
$1.5 million will go to REA Energy Cooperative, which serves Indiana, Cambria and Westmoreland Counties. The company plans to use the money to upgrade over 70 smart grid technology equipment to reduce outages to 9000 cooperative members in rural areas. The project’s goal will be to decrease outage times and provide remote outage detection capabilities.
