DOE Smart Grid Data Access Funding Opportunity - $8 million
Application Due: March 1, 2012
Eligible Entities: State and local governments, federally recognized tribes.
The U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory
is seeking applications aimed at empowering consumers to better manage
their electricity use by enabling access to electricity consumption data
by customers and their authorized third parties, and providing or
supporting the use of third-party tools and software products that use
the available data to deliver a value-added service to the customer.
Projects under this Funding Opportunity Announcement will be composed of
two phases. Under Phase I, applicants will need to demonstrate the
capability for electricity customers and or designated third parties to
access their usage data and the functionality of their proposed tool or
software product to provide this access. Phase II involves adoption of
the tools and software products demonstrated in Phase I to an entire
service territory, region, or community within the jurisdiction of the
applicant or the utility partner of the applicant.
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