President Obama is working on the following promise:
"Will establish a Grid Modernization Commission to facilitate adoption of Smart Grid practices across the nation's electricity grid to the point of general adoption and ongoing market support in the U.S. electric sector. They will instruct the Secretary of Energy to: (1) establish a Smart Grid Investment Matching Grant Program to provide reimbursement of one-fourth of qualifying Smart Grid investments; (2) conduct programs to deploy advanced techniques for managing peak load reductions and energy efficiency savings on customer premises from smart metering, demand response, distributed generation and electricity storage systems; and (3) establish demonstration projects specifically focused on advanced technologies for power grid sensing, communications, analysis, and power flow control, including the integration of demand-side resources into grid management." — "New Energy for America"
Source: http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/factsheet_energy_speech_080308.pdf
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UPDATES:
Updated: January 15, 2009
Grid gets in line for funding
Democrats in the U.S. House released a broad outline of what they hope to include in the 2009 stimulus bill and it contained many ideas Obama promised during the campaign, including $32 billion to create a "smarter and better grid" for energy transmission distribution and production. The plan says the focus will be on renewable technology.
Certainly no one is happy that the U.S. economy is in such dire straights that policymakers are talking about a stimulus plan that could cost more than $500 billion. But an unintended benefit for Barack Obama is that the bill gives him a chance to make good on a number of his more expensive campaign promises.
Obama discussed the broad outline of his hopes for the bill in a speech at George Mason University on Jan. 8, 2009.
"It is not just another public-works program," Obama said. "It's a plan that recognizes both the paradox and the promise of this moment — the fact that there are millions of Americans trying to find work even as all around the country there's so much work to be done. That's why we'll invest in priorities like energy and education; health care and a new infrastructure that are necessary to keep us strong and competitive in the 21st century."
Sources:
New York Times, Barack Obama speech on the economy at George Mason University, Jan. 8, 2009.
U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee Web site, American Recovery and Reinvestment, Bill Text, (pdfs) published and accessed Jan. 15, 2009.
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