Michigan gets nearly $15M federal grant to improve power grid resilience
Michigan gets nearly $15M federal grant to improve power grid resilience
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.
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.
That won't be nearly enough. There isn't nothing more Pure Michigan (tm) than potholes and power outages.
I've lived in a few different places in Michigan and power outages aren't really that common and even when the weather is bad, it's normally not down that long.
The worst I ever had was three days after a record ice storm that shut the area down for a few days. Other than that, never lost power for more than a few hours at most.
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...."