Michigan gets nearly $15M federal grant to improve power grid resilience (www.mlive.com)

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The money will pay for last-mile energy delivery to low-income residents and efforts to lessen the risk of severe weather damaging the power grid.

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[-] Orvanis@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The article lists an awfully long laundry list of things the funding will go towards, including adding battery storage to the grid.

Is $21 million (15m federal, article says about 6m from state funds) anywhere close to realistic....? Or is this like "1 battery here, check that off the list, bury these 3 cables here and check that off the list...."

[-] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Close to realistic for what exactly?

[-] Orvanis@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Any meaningful grid changes/upgrades. It just seems like a very very small budget for infrastructure.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Grants aren't meant to be a full budget, it's intended to supplement additional spending.

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