The Maine Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) was selected by the federal Department of Energy (DOE) to receive a $65 million grant to aid in the adoption of new technologies designed to help Maine’s electrical grid to better support the transmission of “clean energy.”
Known as Flexible Interconnections and Resilience for Maine (FIRM), this project represents a collaboration between the State of Maine, Central Maine Power (CMP), and Versant Power.
The goal of FIRM, as stated in Friday’s press release, is to “deploy cutting-edge software and hardware to enhance grid stability, regulate voltage, and increase transmission capacity on existing lines” to help “deliver more clean energy to Maine households and businesses.”
A fact sheet from the DOE’s Grid Deployment Office (GDO) further explains that this project hopes to “create a more modern and dynamic grid that will drive robust deployment of distributed energy resources (DERs) and renewable energy deployment in Maine will increasing resilience and ensuring affordability for customers.”
Click Here to Read the GDO Fact Sheet
This $65 million award comes through the GDO’s Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) Program which was funded by the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Friday’s GEO press release lists several goals that the technology deployed through the use of this grant will accomplish, such as “connect[ing] more renewable energy to the power grid while also protecting the grid from overloading.”
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