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reuters.com - 10/26/2009
Obama plans big smart grid announcement
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will announce the largest investment of economic stimulus funds in clean energy during a visit to Florida, an Obama administration official said on Monday. The announcement will involve the smart grid, which will help bring energy from clean domestic ...
reuters.com - 10/27/2009
Obama to give $3.4 billion in grants for smart grid
— reuters.com — Tom Doggett WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday will announce $3.4 billion in government grants... to help build a "smart" electric grid that will save consumers money on their utility bills, reduce blackouts and carry power supplies ... (more) Obama to give $3.4 billion in grants for smart grid

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whitehouse.gov - 10/27/2009
President Obama Announces $3.4 Billion Investment to Spur Transition to Smart Energy Grid
— whitehouse.gov — Applicants say investments will create tens of thousands of jobs, save energy and empower consumers to cut... their electric bills ARCADIA, FLORIDA – Speaking at Florida Power and Light’s (FPL) DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, ... (more) President Obama Announces $3.4 Billion Investment to ...

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latimes.com - 10/27/2009
Obama to detail stimulus spending on 'smart grid'
— latimes.com — LA Times: President Obama and administration officials today will announce $3.4 billion in spending projects to modernize... the nation's electric power system. The president will offer details on funding for the "smart grid" during an ... (more) Obama to detail stimulus spending on 'smart grid'

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Earth2Tech:  Fisker Set to Buy GM Plant to Build Low-cost Plug-in Electric Vehicle

GreenPacks.org:  Obama, Biden to Make Important ‘Green’ Announcements

Greentech Media: All Content:  $3.4B in Smart Grid Grants Coming Tomorrow

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Fisker Set to Buy GM Plant to Build Low-cost Plug-in Electric Vehicle
Earth2Tech — ... Vice President Joe Biden is reportedly expected to visit the GM plant on Tuesday, and make an announcement about the new Fisker factory. ...

Smart Grid Stimulus Funds To Be Announced Tomorrow
Earth2Tech — ... Is tomorrow the day of reckoning for the smart grid industry in the U.S., when utilities and companies will finally learn whether or not they will receive part of the close to $4 billion in stimulus funds? It’s starting to look like it. According to suggestions from media reports, a planned Department of Energy press briefing tonight and the DOE Secretary Steven Chu’s talk at Google this morning, Tuesday just might be the big day. ...

Smart Grid Stimulus Funds Being Announced Tomorrow?
Earth2Tech — ... Is tomorrow the day of reckoning for the smart grid industry in the U.S., where utilities and companies will finally learn whether or not they will receive part of the close to $4 billion in stimulus funds? It’s starting to look like it. According to suggestions from media reports, a planned Department of Energy press briefing tonight and the DOE Secretary Steven Chu’s talk at Google this morning, Tuesday just might be the big day. ...

Obama, Biden to Make Important ‘Green’ Announcements
GreenPacks.org — ... grid with clean energy playing an important role. In a seperate visit to a closed General Motors plant in Wilmington, Delaware, the US Vice Presiden Joe Biden will announce that the plant will be reopened for production of plug-in hybrid electric cars. However, it isn’t GM that is opening the plant, it is California based Fisker Automotive that will take control of the plant. Fisker is well known for its first plug-in electric vehicle, the Fisker Karma. Source: Reuters

$3.4B in Smart Grid Grants Coming Tomorrow
Greentech Media: All Content — [image] Jeff St. John | October 26, 2009 at 5:12 PM $3.4B in Smart Grid Grants Coming Tomorrow The Department of Energy is set to announce winners of $3.4 billion in smart grid stimulus grants on Tuesday, Reuters reports. There are hundreds of applications in to DOE's $3.4 billion smart grid investment grant program, which makes up the lion's share of $3.9 billion the department has set aside for bringing two-way communications and information technology to the nation's electricity grids (see ...

Fisker Details Plans for “Project Nina” at Old GM Plant, Eyes Exports
Earth2Tech — ... this morning that it will buy an old General Motors assembly plant in Wilmington, Del., for $18 million drawing funds from the $528.7 million conditional loan it received from the Department of Energy last month. Word got out yesterday that Fisker was in advanced talks to buy the GM facility for the project, and a White House insider told Reuters that Vice President Joe Biden would be on hand at the shuttered facility this morning to announce its reopening. Now we’ve got details. ...

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Smart Grid Investment Grants: The Also-Ran’s — Greentech Media: All Content
For every one project that got a piece of $3.4 billion in Department of Energy stimulus grants on Tuesday, three projects didn't. But while the 100 winning projects may have won on the technical merits, that doesn't mean the 300 that didn't make the cut are lacking in quality, DOE advisor Matt ...