First Energy Service Company, located in Akron, Ohio, will receive $57 million in funding to develop a smarter energy grid. The U.S. Deparment of Energy selected First Energy as one of 100 companies to receive federal stimulus funding as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The project's aim is to modernize the electrical grid and reduce peak energy demand by leveraging the crosscutting nature of different smart grid technologies, including significant communication and information management systems, deploying a smart meter network and automating the distribution system beginning in 2010.
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, Up to 44,000 Smart Meters
, AMI Communication Systems
, Backhaul Communications
, 40,500 Direct Load Control Devices
, Customer Systems for up to 44,000 Customers
, In-Home Displays
, Programmable Communicating Thermostats
, Distribution Automation Equipment for 65 out of 3,036 Distribution Circuits
, Distribution Automation Communications Network
, SCADA Communications Network
, Automated Distribution Circuit Switches
, Automated Regulators
, Automated Capacitors
, Circuit Monitors/Indicators
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, Reduced Operating and Maintenance Costs
, Reduced Electricity Costs for Customers
, Improved Electric Service Reliability and Power Quality
, Reduced Costs from Equipment Failures, Distribution Line Losses
, Reduced Greenhouse Gas and Criteria Pollutant Emissions
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