As South Carolina’s largest power provider, Santi Cooper’s Grid Flexible Grant Program has played an important role in the organization’s efforts to provide uninterrupted services for more than two million people. For the grant bicycles of 2022-2023, the program was jointly financed with 10.4 million, in which Senti Cooper supported an additional $ 1.56 million. In recent reports, the Senti Cooper will take these efforts to the next level with the announcement that they have obtained the final grant approval for 14 new projects.
The purpose of these projects is to improve the grid infrastructure to reduce the frequency and duration of closure due to extreme weather, which is focusing on the backward classes. A total of 9.9 million, this grant South Carolina was made available by bilateral infrastructure law and was approved by the US Department of Energy (DOE).
It is a development that highlights what the real commitment to the improvement of the grid can be seen at more than one level. The approval highlights how electric grid reforms actually look, which enables the organization to provide more reliable services and minimize customer time. However, it also highlights the importance of making suggestions that enable alignment with several stakeholders. Protecting the DOE approval further sheds light on how utility can consider the entire life cycle of the Federal Grant Project, where milestones can depend on each other.
Jimmy Staton, president and CEO of Saint Cooper, mentioned that this approval would help strengthen South Carolina’s electric grid massively, but especially in parties that are at risk of closure. This community is a map for flexibility that the United States is looking for utility in many ways.
Details about all 14 projects are below:
- City of Clinton – 5 445,200 – Plant management, closure management and pole inspection.
- City Rock Hill – 7 397,123 -Installing underground electric lines, equipment and lighting in 10 feet ease obtained from property owners. Old -headlines will be converted into new underground lines and old infrastructure will be removed.
- Fairfield Electric Co -operative -, 000 99,000 – Implementing a comprehensive error indicator system to enhance grid flexibility by rapid detection, precise location and effective management of errors.
- Fairfield Electric Cooperative – 0 210,000 -Installing seven phase electronic recolors on a distribution circuit from Vinasburo substation of the Fairfield.
- Fairfield Electric Cooperative – 30 330,000 -Install 11 to three phase electronic Recruitments on the distribution circuit from the Woodward substation of the Fairfield.
- Greer CPW – 0 1,047,000 -Restoration of real -time data automation, error identification, error isolation and extreme weather events and other sanctions to provide real -time data during the event.
- Lawrence CPW – 3 1,347,097 – Changing primary and secondary power distribution lines with a new conductor and accelerating plant management in the city’s backward communities.
- MPD Electric Cooperative – 9 319,104 – Distribution management and automation system install. To clear the instant and short -term defects, with remote control units, compact modular remarks will be installed.
- MPD Electric Cooperative – 6 286,045 -Increase the grid flexibility in rural communities by upgrading existing single -phase electrical lines in a V -Phase Configure to improve the performance and reliability of the power distribution system.
- MPD Electric Cooperative – 20 720.043 – The average interference period of the system during normal and extreme events is to replace the old or damaged utility poles to increase reliability and safety and update infrastructure to reduce the index (CIDI) and customer’s average intervention period (CIDI).
- Orangeberg DPU – 9 689,721 – implement a remote sensing solution for plants; Transmission conductor and place of poles, insulators, static lines and other sub -materials; Converting the old electrochemical richoser to a new electronic device.
- York Electric Cooperative – 9 539,956 -Converting the existing power line carrier (PLC) meter into advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) meter.
- York Electric Cooperative – 9 479,921 – Converting the existing PLC meter to AMI meter.
- York Electric Co -operative -, 73,488 – Creating a distribution automation system between sub -stations in York Electric.
Final approval from the DOE for these projects opens federal funding for fiscal year 2024. Additionally, this approval allows the work to start immediately.
