Oklahoma utility receives stimulus funding
The Oklahoma City-based utility announced the award for its "smart-grid" program.
OG&E, a subsidiary of OGE Energy Corp., applied in August for the matching funds to speed up the deployment of its smart-grid technology across its 30,000-square-mile territory in Oklahoma and western Arkansas.
A smart grid requires the installation of digital electric meters at customer locations to replace existing electric meters.
The meters transmit information about electricity use to the utility company via a newly installed wireless communications network.
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Construction starts on disputed $1B electricity corridor
PORTLAND - Construction on part of a $1 billion electricity transmission corridor through sparsely populated woods in western Maine is on hold because of legal action, but that doesn't mean all building has been halted.
Workers installed the first of 829 steel poles Tuesday on a widened portion of the existing corridor that is part of the project near The Forks, as the groundwork is laid for the 145-mile ( 230-kilometre ) New England Clean Energy Connect.
The work is getting started even though the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals delayed construction of a new 53-mile ( 85-kilometre ) section.
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