This month’s Automation Insight newsletter from KEMA includes the first of a two-part series covering how ARRA stimulus funding awards are being used. This first article examines the process for awarding stimulus funding to smart grid projects.

The US is at a point of historic transformation of the electric grid infrastructure. Implementing the smart grid on a national scale poses significant challenges—and opportunities—both for projects selected for a US Department of Energy (DOE) Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG), and for those moving ahead with projects without grant funding.